Dahleen Glanton

Mayor Lori Lightfoot answers questions concerning a video of Chicago police mistakenly searching the wrong house, during a news conference at City Hall on Dec. 16, 2020.

Column: Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s apology doesn’t undo the trauma Chicago police inflicted on an innocent woman during botched raid

December 17, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

Some Chicagoans are beginning to wonder who Mayor Lori Lightfoot really is. The person they thought they elected a year and a half ago never would have done what she...

Englewood resident Fannie Peeples gets a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Friend Health nurse Syreetta Stinson at the Peace House of I Grow Chicago, March 26, 2021. I Grow Chicago teamed with Friend Health to provide 150 vaccines, coffee and doughnuts at the event.

Column: When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine, fear is not an option for African Americans

December 16, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

Earlier this week, I set out to write a column about why African Americans must take the COVID-19 vaccine. But I couldn't — not until I explained why they wouldn't....

In this 1950s file photo released by the National Archives, a Black man included in a syphilis study has blood drawn by a doctor in Tuskegee, Alabama. Historic failures in government response to disasters and emergencies, medical abuse, neglect and exploitation such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study have jaded generations of Black people into a distrust of public institutions.

Column: Don’t blame African Americans for fearing the COVID-19 vaccine. Blame America.

December 14, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

There aren't many African Americans who don't know about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. At some point, someone told us about the hundreds of Black men from rural Alabama who were...

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts arrives before President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 4, 2020.

Column: Chief Justice John Roberts, please do America a favor and make Donald Trump go away

December 10, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

Only one person has the power to stop Donald Trump's dangerous quest to get the judicial system to overturn the presidential election. That is the chief justice of the United...

A Lake County sheriff's deputy watches protesters outside the Lake County Courthouse on Sept. 25, 2020, in Waukegan. An extradition hearing was being held inside for Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, who is charged in the fatal shootings of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum in August during protests in Kenosha.

Column: The Kyle Rittenhouse case is about vigilante justice. Let’s hope it doesn’t prevail.

December 9, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

No one in Kyle Rittenhouse's family seems to understand the gravity of what he did. At least, they won't admit it. The 17-year-old killed two people and wounded another. Someone...

A supporter waves a sign for Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock on Nov. 15, 2020, in Marietta, Georgia. Ossoff and Warnock face Republican incumbent U.S. Sens. David Purdue and Kelly Loeffler, respectively, in Georgia's runoff election Jan. 5.

Column: Georgia can give America a 50-50 Senate and force lawmakers to compromise

December 7, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

If you live in Georgia, you're probably suffering from election fatigue. With the state having been solidly red for so long, I'm sure you are uneasy with all the attention...

Protesters march through Macy's on State Street in the Loop during a Justice for Laquan rally Dec. 9, 2015.

Column: Rahm Emanuel belongs in America’s political past, not in Joe Biden’s Cabinet

December 3, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

Joe Biden wouldn't be president-elect if not for African Americans. Now, Black people are waiting to see whether he will betray us. Reports emerged in the media this week that...

Dr. Joseph Varon comforts a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit on Thanksgiving at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston.

Column: A viral COVID-19 photo shows the best of humanity in the worst of times

December 2, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

You might have seen the photograph of a doctor in Houston cradling an elderly man hospitalized with COVID-19. It has been passed along repeatedly on social media. The picture, taken...

Members of the Chicago Police Department and the University of Chicago Police Department applaud health care workers outside the University of Chicago Medical Center on May 6, 2020, in Chicago.

Column: There is more to be grateful for this Thanksgiving than family, friends and good health

November 23, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

Thanksgiving is the time to look back and remember how lucky we are. Often, our blessings are so bountiful that we cannot count them on two hands. But this year...

Customer Ben Armstrong shops in the paper products aisle at Potash Market, 875 N. State St., in Chicago on Oct. 22, 2020.

Column: Pandemic hoarding isn’t the same as regular hoarding, is it?

November 19, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

I have learned a lot about myself during the coronavirus pandemic, as many of you probably have as well. While stuck at home for weeks, I played around in the...

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