Clarence Page – Page 41

Mayor Lori Lightfoot presides over a City Council meeting May 26, 2021, at City Hall.

Column: In MLK’s footsteps, Mayor Lori Lightfoot takes on a more subtle systemic racism

June 22, 2021 at 3:42 p.m.

When Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared systemic racism to be a public health crisis in Chicago, I couldn't help but think that systemic racism will just have to wait its turn...

Incoming Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton, center left, talks with outgoing President J.D. Greear at the conclusion of the annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting June 16, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Column: Southern Baptists face turmoil over critical race theory, whatever it is

June 18, 2021 at 5:34 p.m.

"Critical race theory," again? Groan. Every time I surf the news these days, those three little words continue to pop up, even though hardly anybody, including the people who say...

Latta Plantation, in Huntersville, North Carolina.

Column: The Historic Latta Plantation controversy reminds us what Juneteenth can teach us

June 15, 2021 at 2:39 p.m.

After more than a century and a half of underappreciation, the emancipation celebration known as Juneteenth is bringing out the regional differences in various ways, some of which make me...

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a joint news conference June 7, 2021, with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei in Guatemala City.

Column: Vice President Kamala Harris’ charm offensive turned mostly offensive

March 11, 2024 at 1:36 p.m.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez actually was being kind when she described Vice President Kamala Harris' "Do not come" message to undocumented Central American migrants as "disappointing." "Embarrassing" would have been closer...

Journalist Danny Fenster, shown in September 2019 in Kraków, Poland. Fenster, an American journalist working for a news magazine in Myanmar has been detained by the authorities there.

Column: Columbia College alumnus detained in Myanmar for committing journalism

June 8, 2021 at 2:37 p.m.

He was so close. Columbia College journalism alumnus Danny Fenster was about to board a plane in Myanmar on May 24 to return home to Michigan. Instead he was detained...

Former NFL player Najeh Davenport in Miramar, Florida, on Aug. 24, 2020. Davenport is one of two Black former NFL players who have raised questions about potential racial bias in how their applications for dementia claims in the concussion settlement were evaluated.

Column: NFL’s ‘race-norming’ policy — now scrapped — is a sad example of systemic racism

June 4, 2021 at 4:12 p.m.

Oops! Who would have guessed that the NFL, after committing $250 million to combat "systemic racism," would uncover the sort of racism in their own systems that they are committed...

Police remove the body of a Black man killed during the 1919 race riots.

Column: Let’s not forget: Chicago had a ‘Black Wall Street’ too

June 24, 2025 at 7:15 p.m.

Of the many lessons to be considered 100 years after a breathtakingly brutal race riot tore through Tulsa's Greenwood district, one of the most painful is this: Tulsa wasn't alone.

Loyola Academy on March 9, 2020, in Wilmette.

Column: Loyola Academy stirs up an unexpected lesson in what race, privilege and education really mean

May 30, 2021 at 8:21 a.m.

Education or indoctrination? That's the big question at the core of the hullabaloo over "critical race theory," and you don't have to be a conservative to worry about it. You...

Four-year-old Gus "Jett" Hawkins plays May 21, 2021.

Column: What’s so wrong about ‘respectability?’ Let’s start with hair.

May 26, 2021 at 3:38 p.m.

Let's talk about hair. Cue the soundtrack to the Broadway musical "Hair" theme song: "Gimme a head with hair/Long, beautiful hay-ahh ...!" Stop the music. I mean real hair! And...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot arrives to announce a new community investment initiative on her two-year anniversary in office in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on May 20, 2021.

Column: Mayor Lightfoot’s call out for media diversity didn’t have to look like a stunt

May 21, 2021 at 2:06 p.m.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has raised a ruckus by announcing that she would only give one-on-one interviews on the two-year anniversary of her term to journalists of color, noting that...

All Stories