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First Look: Ava DuVernay's The Red Line Tackles Segregated Chicago—and Finds Unexpected Connections

I’m a South Side Chicago born-and-bred native, and the Red Line was my main train line. As a product of both the Woodlawn area (via my grandma) and the Southwest Side’s “Wild Hunnids” (via my mama), I would often find myself traipsing around the 95th and 87th stops of the Chicago Transit Authority’s (CTA) Red…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

January 31, 2019
Family Outraged After Video, Photos of Chicago Stabbing Victim Posted Online

A grieving Chicago family is outraged after graphic images and video showing their loved one being stabbed to death on a Chicago Red Line train Thursday were posted online, CBS Chicago reports. “My sister was beautiful, gifted young lady. She didn’t deserve to go the way she did,” Lorel Hampton, the victim’s sister, told the…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

June 27, 2016