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Exclusive Clip: Politics and Classism Collide as The Red Line's Emayatzy Corinealdi and Glynn Turman Face Off

This weekend, CBS will be taking its audience on a ride down Chicago’s Red Line in its appropriately titled series, The Red Line. From the series’ press release: The Red Line follows three Chicago families as they journey toward hope and healing after an unarmed African American doctor is shot by a white cop. The…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

April 24, 2019
Entertainment, Television

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