Visual and creative arts:

Black Creativity thrives in its 50th year

The Blackivists on documenting movements

An examination of Black identity and time

Envisioning democracy—in photos—at the MoCP

Rebuild Foundation and Sunshine Enterprise team up to train city’s creative entrepreneurs

TV and film:

Revolution vs. reform: Judas and the Black Messiah

The Chi finds itself—in complexity, strong women, and the work toward redemption

‘Pioneering is dangerous’: Housing and the haunting of segregation in Lovecraft Country

Black Harvest Film Festival is still a party

An Unapologetic love letter to Chicago’s Black women activists

The Trial of the Chicago 7 asks: What is worth standing up for?

Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a beautiful heartbreak

Pulitzer Center reporting:

I also reported two stories produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center as part of the Prairie State Museums Project—stories about the effect of COVID-19 on museums:

Bronzeville Children’s Museum ahead of the COVID-19 curve

The American Writers Museum creates a digital experience during COVID-19