Adeshina Emmanuel is the editor-in-chief at Injustice Watch. He was born and raised in the Uptown neighborhood on Chicago's North Side by an African-American mother and Nigerian father and studied journalism at Loyola University Chicago. His work over the past decade has spanned hyperlocal and national reporting with a focus on race, class, and institutional injustice. Adeshina is a former education reporter at Chalkbeat, a former investigative reporter at the Chicago Reporter, and a former neighborhood reporter at DNAinfo Chicago who worked on the breaking news wire at the Chicago Sun-Times before interning at the New York Times in 2012 at the start of his career. Adeshina's work has also been published by various local and national outlets, including the New York Times, the Chicago Reader, Ebony Magazine, In These Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Reports, the Washington Post, Parts Unknown, and the South Side Weekly.
We interviewed past and present police union presidents, activists, and legal scholars for perspectives about the role FOP leaders have played since the organization established itself in Chicago nearly 60 years ago.
Associate judges are chosen via a closed election that only Cook County’s 249 circuit court judges can vote in.
Newsrooms are moving away from privileging police accounts over those of police violence victims.
Judge Michael Toomin and Mayor Lori Lightfoot say his critics are playing politics. Reformers say the lives and futures of Cook County children are at stake.
Judicial elections bring high stakes and consequences, especially for Black, Latinx and other marginalized groups disproportionately impacted by the justice system.
“We are the revolution. It is in our bodies. It is in our bones. It is in our art. It is in the way that we speak.”
Two bills introduced by Republicans in the state legislature are “a smack in the face,” says one torture survivor.
Two youth organizers with GoodKids MadCity share what activism has taught them, how it has affected them, and how they want to transform Chicago.
Miracle Boyd, 18, is an organizer with GoodKids MadCity and a rising Chicago youth leader. An unidentified police officer struck her in the mouth Friday at a Black, Indigenous American rally, breaking several of her teeth.
Hundreds of stories of racism, xenophobia, and abuse at the Latin School of Chicago have surfaced via an anonymous Instagram account, Latin Survivors.