Vibrant laughter and exhausted breathing echoed in the attic of the Second Unitarian Church, 656 W Barry Ave., as a Jiu Jitsu instructor and student…
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Iman Kashkash had just begun learning to drive in Syria when she was forced to flee the country with her daughter, son and daughter-in-law in…
Years before Megan Jeyifo became a “super dope mom,” she was a scared, pregnant 16-year-old girl who had just lost her mother and felt like…
Ethnocentrism in Peruvian advertising does not represent the local population. WHEN I WAS about 6 or 7, my mother would take my brother and me…
Patti Pacino, a councilwoman on the Batavia, New York City Council, reads official documents five times over before heading to regular meetings to avoid questioning…
The grass and ivy decorated along the outfield wall at Wrigley Field was as green as ever on this sunny afternoon. The crowd in the Budweiser Bleachers anxiously…
Former ChicagoTalks reporter and editor Ellyn Fortino reports that a new Chicago organization, Women Organizing Women (WOW) is hosting a “Women Against the Machine” town hall meeting on…
I walked around the city carrying a poster filled with pictures of interracial couples. The looks I received were all too familiar. As I tried…