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Emily Mace places flowers at the memorials for the 7 killed in the Highland Park parade shooting. Photo credit: CNN Politics

Flowers for Fireworks

By Emily Ruth Mace | July 8, 2022

The Highland Park I knew blurs with the Highland Park that so recently was, and yet the memorials that frame the ends of this street reveal the Highland Park that we will yet be.

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On Love and Chicken Sandwiches

By Andrew Johnson | June 15, 2016

Dear Cathy Family of Chik-Fil-A Fame, Recent Donors of Chicken Sandwiches to Honor the Orlando Victims, in Spite of Their Gayness, or Perhaps Because of It, I Don’t Know: You…

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Asphalt Altar

By Onaje X. O. Woodbine | May 5, 2016

From the violence of the streets to the ritual space of the asphalt court

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Demolishing the Cycle of Hate

By Caralyn Davis | April 14, 2015

The city of Sandy Hook, Connecticut, recently razed the home of the infamous 20-year-old gunman who in 2012 murdered 20 first-graders, one for each year of his life, as if…