Brian Williams

Chicago police officers work at the scene of a fatal shooting by police in 2019.

Commentary: When we talk about gun violence, we must include police shootings

September 3, 2020 at 7:27 p.m.

When a law enforcement officer shoots a Black person, as happened Aug. 23 to Jacob Blake in Kenosha, the incident rightfully reignites the national debate about racism, policing and lethal...

Chicago police investigate a homicide April 6, 2020, in the 2600 block of East 100th Street.

Commentary: The other public health crisis legislators must address: Gun violence

May 21, 2020 at 8:55 p.m.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, operating on countless black and brown patients who are most of Illinois' gun violence victims constituted my days and nights as a trauma surgeon. Now, having...

An evidence marker next to daffodils at the scene where a 15-year-old boy was shot and killed in the 700 block of South Kilbourn Avenue on April 8, 2020, in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago.

Commentary: COVID-19 and gun violence are devastating black Chicagoans

April 10, 2020 at 11:19 p.m.

I was a guest on a national news show recently, discussing the racial disparities in COVID-19-related deaths. Data from several locations show that black Americans are dying from the disease...

Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta, pose with neighborhood children in their new apartment at 1550 S. Hamlin Ave. in Chicago on Jan. 26, 1966. King and his family moved into the poor neighborhood to shed light on the living conditions of black people in Chicago.

Commentary: Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for health care equity must continue

January 17, 2020 at 10:39 p.m.

America celebrates a distortion of Martin Luther King Jr., void of his prophetic call to justice by any nonviolent means necessary. Particularly around the annual remembrance of his life Monday,...

Reader sees rudeness

August 21, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.

I couldn't agree more with you regarding the rude Randys and Roweenas in this city!! ("Where in the World are Your Manners," March 23) When I see someone sleeping with...

Royal titles

August 20, 2021 at 12:07 p.m.

May I dare to correct a description of my queen as "Her Royal Highness" ("Britain gives Bush the royal treatment," News, July 20)? Queen Elizabeth II is "her majesty." Princess...

CAMBODIA: CLIENTS, THE KHMER ROUGE AND U.S. POLICY

August 8, 2021 at 2:38 p.m.

Cambodia is closer to peace than at any other time in nearly 20 years. Resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Prime Minister Hun Sen are to hold their fifth meeting...

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