37 ChicagoPeople began to shout, to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend’s voice up into the rafters. As…Nov 2, 2021Nov 2, 2021
36 ChicagoAs I stand there, I find myself thinking that somewhere down the line both guilt and empathy speak to our own buried sense that an order of…Oct 18, 2021Oct 18, 2021
35 ChicagoWhen I opened the door, I found a big man standing there with his hands in his pockets, an even-toothed grin breaking across his body face…Oct 13, 2021Oct 13, 2021
34 ChicagoThat’s what was new: the arrival of a new equilibrium between hope and fear; the sense, shared by adults and youth alike, that some, if not…Oct 12, 2021Oct 12, 2021
33 ChicagoI changed as a result of that bus trip, in a fundamental way. It was the sort of change that’s important not because it alters your concert…Oct 11, 2021Oct 11, 2021
32 ChicagoSometimes, listening to such innocent dreams, I would find myself fighting off the urge to gather up these girls and their babies in my…Oct 8, 2021Oct 8, 2021
31 ChicagoAlmost a year had passed since my arrival in Chicago, and our labor had finally begun to bear fruit. Will’s and Mary’s street corner group…Oct 7, 2021Oct 7, 2021
30 ChicagoAll my life, I had carried a single image of my father, one that I had sometimes rebelled against but had never questioned, one that I had…Oct 6, 2021Oct 6, 2021
29 ChicagoBarack met his younger sister, Auma. She came to meet her brother in Chicago. she was wondering about all his life from the beginning. so…Oct 4, 2021Oct 4, 2021
28 ChicagoFor the rest of the day and into the next, I thought about Ruby’s eyes. I had handled the moment badly, I told myself, made her feel…Sep 30, 2021Sep 30, 2021
