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By Benji Hart In the last month, following the emergence of horrific images of migrant children being separated from their families and held in cages by border agents, the call to #AbolishICE has gone...

ICE violence does not exist within a vacuum. It didn’t come out of nowhere. This is how it feels to be Black and policed in this country.

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods. Nearby, they detained a young Black man onlookers insisted was a U.S. citize...

Teachers are getting themselves into trouble on social media. The bigger concern is what’s happening in their classrooms.

Here’s a roundup of federal agent sightings today, Sept. 24.

This week, the City Council will have the opportunity to move Chicago in the direction of a city that supports its residents and doesn’t turn a blind eye to market forces that terrorize them.

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

Hundreds protested outside Broadview ICE in Illinois, resisting Operation Midway Blitz and denouncing raids, deportations, and state violence.

“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.

Three Chicago organizers on standing together against Trump’s attempts to militarize and divide us.

“There’s no rule of law that’s going to get us out of where we are,” says Andrea Ritchie.

A pastor in Chicago helps build a coalition that aids recent arrivals by asking them what they need.

A pastor in Chicago helps build a coalition that aids recent arrivals by asking them what they need.

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A pastor in Chicago helps build a coalition that aids recent arrivals by asking them what they need.

As a nation, we fail to comprehend Black political strategy in much the same way we fail to recognize the value of Black life. We see ghettos and crime and absent parents where we should see commun…

Black teenagers spoke to The TRiiBE about teen trends, how they’re treated in the Loop, and what solutions could fill the gap in youth-oriented spaces.

Can we build a system that makes room for our freedom?

Before the vote, Mayor Brandon Johnson repeatedly questioned whether the measure is constitutional and frequently said that he does not believe that expanding the city’s curfew would stop teen “trends...

Faith in checks and balances stems from an even more dangerous faith in law and order.

“Now is the time to be bold and audacious,” says community safety organizer Che Johnson-Long.

Movement-backed Mayor Brandon Johnson and a record class of progressive alders took office exactly two years ago. I spoke with organizers—including CTU President Stacy Davis-Gates—about what we’ve…

Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

Craft of Campaigns S2E1

In 2017, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a plan to build a $95 million police and fire training academy – after years of police killings, rocketing police budgets, and a fight for torture survivo...