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Employees Allege Racial Hostility in Quaker Oats Suit
In her Chicago Sun-Times column, Mary Mitchell visits with Glenda Brooks, who tells a harrowing story of racial harassment that occurred during her employment at Quaker Oats in Danville, Ill. She and three white male co-workers filed a lawsuit in 2010 alleging “racial hostility.” Several times during the interview, she tried unsuccessfully to stop the…
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First Lady May Help Food-Desert Problem
In her Chicago Sun-Times column, Mary Mitchell says that Michelle Obama is sure to help draw national attention to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s food-desert campaign. She will join him on Oct. 25 when he presides over a food-access summit. Emanuel, a master strategist, has found a way to link his own pet project to first…
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Are Low-Income Black Parents Not Raising Readers?
In her Chicago Sun-Times column, Mary Mitchell says that the debate about why so many urban black children have trouble reading has raged since she was a child. Now, after sociologists, educators and politicians have spent years pointing fingers at bad teachers and poverty, she asks if parents are to blame. … But, honestly, could…
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Successful Black Women Should Marry Outside Race
In her Chicago Sun-Times column, Mary Mitchell writes about Ralph Richard Banks, a black Stanford Law professor who advises black women who are still waiting for Mr. Right to marry outside of their race, not down. That’s radical. For the longest time, relationship experts have told black women — the least likely group to make…
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Reschedule the MLK Memorial Dedication — Again
Mary Mitchell, in her Chicago Sun-Times column, writes that organizers should select a new date for the rescheduled dedication of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial because it falls on the same date as the 16th anniversary of the Million Man March. It is problematic, she argues, because President Barack Obama, a slated speaker…
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Maybe We Are Too Easy on Our Children
Mary Mitchell, in her Chicago Sun-Times column, discusses raising and disciplining children in an increasingly complicated world. Are we turning our children into wimps? I have to ask myself that every time I feel like I have to spare my grandchildren some unpleasantness I endured as a child. And two stories recently in the…
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Black Women's Hair Is Not the Cause of Obesity
The Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell writes that Regina Benjamin, the surgeon general, gets it wrong about the reason some black women shy away from exercise. She says that some of it has do with socialization, while for others it boils down to economics. Black women can’t catch a break. Lately, they’ve been criticized for…
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What Would MLK Think of $120 Million Monument?
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell wonders if the humble Martin Luther King Jr. would appreciate his expensive memorial on the National Mall. I figure when I get to Washington, D.C., and gaze up at the “Stone of Hope,” which opened to the public on Monday, I will feel like I am walking on holy ground. But…
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Ex-Manager: Chicago Nightclub Biased Against Blacks
The Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell addresses charges by an ex-manager that a popular Chicago nightspot used illegal tactics to limit the number of African Americans in the club. It is not unusual for popular watering holes to bar African-American males because of a dress code. If black guys are wearing baggy jeans and a…
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These Films Shed Light on Chicago's Gritty Side
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell discusses two documentaries about violence and sex trafficking that put Chicago’s dark side on display. Too bad they aren’t as available as Jersey Shore or Real Basketball Wives, because the stories could change lives, she writes. With the release of two documentaries that feature former hell raisers, Chicago’s dirty underbelly…
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