This past week, I have been asked multiple times, “How are you?” From close friends, sympathetic and passionate toward me and what’s happening in this country, I’ve been given the space to air...
Evanston leaders discussed the relevance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy at an annual MLK Day event.
Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) and former Mayor Lorraine Morton spoke at...
When U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia) was first asked to write a series of graphic novels about his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, he waved it off.
Lewis, who as a young boy was inspired...
U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia) will speak next week at Evanston Township High School about his trilogy of graphic novels focused on his experiences as a longtime civil rights activist.
The novels,...
Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most endearing figures of the American mythos. His efforts helped secure de jure rights for blacks and dismantle Jim Crow laws in the South. In his speech “I Have...
