They’re now retired or passed, but I had several (Black) CTU family members who cared immensely for their all or majority Black schools. Distance learning wasn’t an option while they were active, but they would go into schools that were in the middle of gang shootouts and school lockdowns day in and day out. They…

That is sad, but believable. Thank you for doing what you can. 

Teachers should have made an announcement during the 2 week winter break instead they waited until the second day back to refuse to go to work

Teachers were the ones proposing alternatives that are proven to work, but Lightfoot decided no classes were better than online classes, then to blame the teachers for kids not getting an education when SHE was the one who cancelled classes rather than letting them be done online.

Nobody involved gives a shit about the teachers or students. This about them trying to break teachers’ unions around the country. For all the whining and complaining about how this affects “the children” they have shown to be the most adaptable, it is the parents that have acted like assholes. I know parents work but…

I never said federal dollars. I’m just thinking of what $482 million could do for the neighborhood. That’s all. Musings. You know? Why are you getting on me?

I 100% guarantee it will cause gentrification, no matter what mitigation methods are put in place.

To be clear, since some of the grey don’t have imaginations, I meant that in addition to the planned facilities there would be low income/rent controlled housing. The entire point of the article is that building something like this to improve the lives of a community doesn’t benefit them if they are forced to move.…

we’ll see how it goes. There needs to be a Community Benefits Agreement, and the Obama Foundation needs to be challenged to abide by it. There also needs to be clauses in it that can be revisited every 5 or 10 years, setting benchmarks for racial inclusion in employment, both related to short term (construction of…

There is a difference.

Yes, but museums can also be hagiographies toward their subject matter.

I think it will hurt the area, as it will diminish the usability of the park. And, if it even 1/4 as busy as projected — the traffic will be a negative impact on residents competing for roads, parking and public transit.

Nope. Two reasons — both of which were brushed over here. First, this is going to be built in a National Historic Park, restricting free space for people to come and do stuff outside. Which particularly impacts lower income residents, as at least one neighborhood borders this park.

Gentrification doesn’t have to mean white people moving in, it very well may end up as a place wealthy black folks end up moving to and causing the same effects for the poorer current residents. It might end up being Chicago’s version of LA’s Baldwin Hills.

A Black man, raised by white women, who admittedly didn’t have any Black friends until college and had to make a conscious decision to embrace his Blackness should never be allowed to speak for Black people. I don’t see the appeal. Black people project their own desires onto him but he never cared about us. Black…

The presidential center will include a museum, forum building, public plaza, athletic center, play area and a branch of the Chicago Public Library

Let’s not call this a Library either. It’s just a museum

The Barack Obama Presidential Center and Library has development plans that would undermine the serene landscape of the historic Frederick Law Olmsted designed Jackson Park and also “literally pave over paradise and put up a parking lot”.

It’s high time to take off the commemorative t-shirts and ball caps. (Yes that means telling the old folks, top—gently.) We got played by a half “off the boat”/ half white political con artist who NEVER cared for or about us & never had our community’s best interest in mind! He only used us(Michelle, too) as a cover…

why won't her mom help her ?