Jan 19 Univision slices into 'Onion' ownership By Joshua Barajas Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but Spanish-language TV giant Univision announced it acquired a controlling stake of The Onion, the humor site whose fictitious headlines have fooled many a politician. Continue reading
Jan 15 Watch 7:20 News Wrap: Obama administration puts pause on new coal leases By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, the Obama administration ordered a nationwide pause on new coal leases on federal land while the Department of the Interior reviews coal company payments to the government, as well as environmental effects. Also, Chicago Mayor… Continue watching
Jan 14 Chicago releases video footage from 2013 of police killing unarmed teen By Kamaria Roberts A federal judge in Chicago ordered on Thursday to release footage from 2013 that shows Cedrick Chatman, an unarmed 17-year-old, being shot to death by police. Continue reading
Jan 11 This Chicago program connects incarcerated youth to poetry By artsdesk Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy aims to help troubled youths in Chicago’s Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center address their personal issues by writing poetry about their circumstances and upbringing. Jeffrey Brown talks with poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, who… Continue reading
Dec 29 Watch 3:47 News Wrap: Chicago cop pleads not guilty in Laquan McDonald shooting case By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, Chicago policeman Jason Van Dyke pleaded not guilty of first-degree murder for killing of black teenager Laquan McDonald. Also, protesters gathered in Cleveland a day after a grand jury refused to indict two police officers… Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch 12:23 No charges in Cleveland's Tamir Rice case, as latest shooting stokes anger for Chicago police By PBS News Hour There will be no charges filed in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland. That decision follows yet another weekend of tension over police shootings in Chicago, where two black residents were killed Saturday by officers, amid a… Continue watching
Dec 07 Watch 9:43 Will Chicago investigation deter police use of force around the U.S.? By PBS News Hour The Justice Department will launch a civil rights investigation into how the Chicago police force uses force and whether there are racial or ethnic disparities. Meanwhile, a video released Monday showed another fatal police shooting that occurred last year. William… Continue watching
Dec 07 Poet H. Melt shows why gender isn't always simple By Corinne Segal Gender is often not as simple as it seems. This principle underlies the work of H. Melt, a 25-year-old trans poet who uses the pronoun “they” and released “The Plural, The Blurring,” their debut poetry collection, last week. Continue reading
Dec 07 U.S. Justice Department to investigate Chicago police By Don Babwin and Eric Tucker, Associated Press CHICAGO -- The Justice Department will investigate patterns of racial disparity in the use of force by Chicago police officers as part of a wide-ranging probe that could lead to calls for sweeping changes at one of the country's largest… Continue reading
Dec 01 Watch 4:58 Chicago police superintendent out amid anger over Laquan McDonald shooting video By PBS News Hour Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has fired his longtime police superintendent Garry McCarthy. The move came one week after the city released a dash-cam video showing Officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Gwen Ifill learns more from Paris… Continue watching