Commentary
Ten years ago Illinois abolished the death penalty. These people helped make it happen.
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Seven people who advocated for the end of capital punishment reflect on the movement that led Illinois to abolish the death penalty in 2011.
Collateral Consequences
Left behind: How deportation affects a Chicago mother and her 6 kids
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A Chicago mother explains how her husband’s 15-year-old conviction led to three deportations and a family torn apart.
Collateral Consequences
Dejados atrás: cómo la deportación afecta a una madre de Chicago y a sus 6 hijos
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Una madre de Chicago explica cómo la condena de 15 años de su marido provocó tres deportaciones y una familia destrozada.
Essential Work
Video: ‘The allegory of the activist’
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This short film is part of Injustice Watch’s Essential Work project, a first-person storytelling series by young Black Chicago activists.
Essential Work
Essential Work: ‘Where did we agree to sign away our identities when we decided to fight for freedom?’
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Injustice Watch has relaunched its Essential Work project about young Black Chicago activists. In this essay, an organizer known as Naira reflects on the summer uprisings and pushes back on the dehumanization of Black radicals and protesters, from Assata Shakur to today’s Black youth.
Staff news
Meet the reporters: A Q&A with new Injustice Watch staff Josh McGhee and Rita Oceguera
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In an interview with Editor-in-Chief Adeshina Emmanuel, Josh and Rita discussed what issues they’re covering, and how they’re making sense of 2020.
Commentary
Terrorists, real and imagined
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As attorney Jeffrey Urdangen watched the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack, he thought of the 2007 terrorism case against a former client named Olutosin Oduwole, who was an aspiring rapper in southern Illinois when prosecutors alleged his lyrics were terrorist threats.
Longreads
Spurred by Black Lives Matter, coverage of police violence is changing
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Newsrooms are moving away from privileging police accounts over those of police violence victims.
Commentary
Estudiante de raza negra reflexiona sobre cómo enfrentar el racismo en una escuela privada de Chicago: ‘Mantén la misma energía’
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Randy Pierre, un estudiante de cuarto año en Latin School of Chicago, dice que protestas en contra de una cultura racista en la escuela “no puede ser el final de la lucha.”
Commentary
Illinois criminal justice reform bill critics playing ‘Fear-Mongering Bingo’ says State Sen. Robert Peters
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Peters alleges that police and conservatives bashing the reforms, including the “Pretrial Fairness Act” that would end cash bail in Illinois, are using “Willie Horton-style scare tactics.”