Tag: Chicago Tribune

  • Jewish tent widens as diversity grows The Chicago Tribune 2014-12-16 Bonnie Miller Rubin, Reporter Ellen Zemel (left) lends a hand for a symbolic lighting of a menorah for Hanukkah during a party for parents and children of Project Esther: The Chicago Jewish Adoption Network of the Jewish Child & Family Services, at the Elain Kersten…

  • Lawsuit: Wrong sperm delivered to lesbian couple The Chicago Tribune 2014-10-01 Meredith Rodriguez, Tribune reporter A white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from an African-American donor, a fact that she said has made it difficult for her and her same-sex partner to raise…

  • Interracial couples now part of mainstream The Chicago Tribune 2013-10-23 Dawn Turner Trice, Reporter Mixed-race relationships becoming more common in Chicago — and everywhere else Stephen Blessman and Patricia Jones Blessman met in the mid-1990s and fell in love. It didn’t matter to either of them that he’s white and she’s African-American. They have a…

  • ‘War Baby’ is something to see, if you can let go The Chicago Tribune 2013-05-08 Lori Waxman, Instructor of Art History, Theory and Criticism School of the Art Institute of Chicago It was the Hello Kitty tepee that did it for me. Some exhibitions can be so challenging that it takes a particularly unexpected artwork…

  • How to update census’ race question The Chicago Tribune 2013-05-05 Clarence Page Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page prefers an America where diversity and unique ethnicities are celebrated, not homogenized. A notable example of how Americans fall through the cracks in census data-gathering caught my eye recently. It appeared on the black-oriented TheRoot.com website under this…

  • Scholars fix gaze on changing racial landscape Chicago Tribune 2012-10-29 Dawn Turner Trice Laura Kina, 39, is half Asian-American and half white. Her husband is Jewish, and her stepdaughter is half Hispanic. Her family, including her fair-skinned, blue-eyed biological daughter, lives near Devon Avenue in the heart of Chicago’s Indian and Pakistani community. Kina, who’s…

  • American Indians in Chicago struggle to preserve identity, culture and history Chicago Tribune 2012-08-13 Dahleen Glanton, Reporter Recession, social service funding cuts hinder efforts Susan Kelly Power was 17 when she boarded a train to Chicago, a place that seemed a world away from the Indian reservation she grew up on in North and South…

  • Intermarriage of Races is Urged by Sociologist Chicago Tribune 1909-08-18 page 11 Source: The Mead Project, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Prof. William I. Thomas Predicts the Disappearance of Color Line in Prejudices of Civilized Peoples.   Disappearances of the racial “color lines” was predicted yesterday by Prof. William I. Thomas of the University…

  • Time to drop racial categories in census The Chicago Tribune 2012-08-16 Arthur Caplan, Director of Division of Medical Ethics Department of Population Health New York University The U.S. Census Bureau announced that it wants to make a number of changes in how it counts membership in a race. The change is based on an experiment…

  • Was first black priest black enough? Chicago Tribune 2010-05-02 Manya A. Brachear, Tribune reporter Healy, son of a plantation owner, isn’t mentioned as often as Tolton, who is being pushed for sainthood More than a year after some African-Americans scrutinized the blackness of the nation’s first black president, America’s Catholics are now wrestling with the…