For many CPS employees, the goal of the strike is to force the city’s hand to create a more impactful and safer learning environment for CPS students. With teachers and staffers being stretched thin, it’s challenging to give each student the attention they need to succeed.
John Walt’s dream of community-building lives on through DinnerWithJohn fundraiser and John Walt Day
“I have to be his voice. That’s the only thing I can say about that. He’s no longer here to speak. He’s no longer here to do the things that he loved to do,” Nachelle Pugh says about her late son, Pivot Gang rapper John Walt.
Entangled with recurring themes of love, rebellion, classism and colorism, Cane River is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet.
On Wednesday, the long-awaited Amazing Grace documentary kicked off the 21st annual Ebertfest at the Virginia Theater in Urbana, IL.