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Richard Hunt” opens Friday at the Loyola University Museum of Art, spotlighting America's most prolific public art sculptor.
1989: Phil Jackson was hired as head coach of the Chicago Bulls, replacing Doug Collins. After the Bulls won their sixth championship trophy, Jackson departed — and so did Michael Jordan and Scottie ...
'She Who Dared,' an opera about women in the civil rights movement, opens in Chicago A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.
One of the most visible murals from the CTA’s Red Line is an Uptown painting by Darius Dennis of a 1966 photo by Danny Lyon, a Civil Rights Movement photographer with strong Chicago ties.
CHICAGO — Chicago civil rights leaders and Illinois politicians reaffirmed their dedication to protecting ... who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights movement.
In 1966 the SCLC turned its focus to Northern ghettos with the Chicago Freedom Movement, and after King's 1968 assassination it conducted a Poor People's Campaign of civil disobedience, the ...
A new opera which premiered this week in Chicago highlights the lesser-known women who worked alongside Rosa Parks during the Civil Rights Movement. Reporter Courtney Kueppers from member station ...
But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...
A new opera which premiered this week in Chicago highlights the lesser-known women who worked alongside Rosa Parks during the Civil Rights Movement. Reporter Courtney Kueppers from member station ...