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Organizers say nearly 7 million people joined the nationwide “No Kings” protests, which took place in over 2,700 cities across the U.S.
In Chicago, an estimated 250,000 people gathered for the rally and march through the streets of downtown. At the rally, Indivisible Chicago Alliance board Chair Kathy Tholin recognized independent news outlets The TRiiBE and Unravaled Press for documenting this moment of escalating militarism in American cities under the President Donald Trump administration.
Veteran reporter Monroe Anderson and TRiiBE co-founder Morgan Elise Johnson attended the protest. They reflect on the historic moment while interviewing attendees.
Click the button below to watch the full video and interviews.
Anderson is a four-time Pulitzer-nominated journalist and was the press secretary of former Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer.
In 1968, as a summer intern for Newsweek magazine, Anderson was one of the reporters covering the anti-war protests in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention.
“As part of Newsweek’s riot coverage team, I was partnered with John Culhane, one of the magazine’s four Chicago bureau correspondents,” Anderson penned in a 2020 reflection for The TRiiBE.
“Before we cleared the yard, they began beating us with their night sticks. Although I had grown up in a blue collar neighborhood a block and a half from Gary’s Delaney projects in Indiana, this was the first — and only — time I’ve felt the sting of a billy club,” Anderson wrote about the police who beat them while covering the 1968 protest.
Click below to read Monroe Anderson’s full account of what happened in 1968.
