The Chicago Reporter articles from November 2001

The Chicago Reporter archives from November 2001

Yelling Like Hell. (Keeping Current).(YELL-Oh Girls!)
November 1, 2001... As an American of Korean descent, Vickie Nam grew up feeling invisible and trying "to make sense of the contradictions of being Asian, American, and a girl." She would stay up late at night and wonder if she were the only girl struggling with...

Minorities do not receive city contracts in proportion to their population, writes Melody McDowell in the Oct. 10 N'DIGO. (Keeping Current).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Minorities do not receive city contracts in proportion to their population, writes Melody McDowell in the Oct. 10 N'DIGO. Although African Americans made up 36 percent of the city's population in 2000, black firms won 16 percent of the city's...

The Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings pushed the United Nations' World Conference against Racism off the front pages, but many national and international commentators were discussing the conference well after it ended Sept. 7. (Keeping Current).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings pushed the United Nations' World Conference against Racism off the front pages, but many national and international commentators were discussing the conference well after it ended Sept. 7. K.P. Waran writes in...

Several university presidents are vowing to fight a series of court rulings that found their affirmative action programs discriminate against white students, reports Adam Cohen in the Sept. 17 Time magazine. (Keeping Current).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Several university presidents are vowing to fight a series of court rulings that found their affirmative action programs discriminate against white students, reports Adam Cohen in the Sept. 17 Time magazine. Cohen points out that, 40 years ago,...

Illinois First: Swing Districts Favored over Minority Areas.(political workings in distribution of Illinois FIRST funds)(Cover Story)
November 1, 2001... Every time it rains, the staff at the Calumet Park Library on West 127th Street drag out plastic covers, wastebaskets and buckets to protect the 15,000 to 20,000 books in the storefront library. Although the collection has suffered more...

Alternative Ed: Segregation or Solution?(debate over alternative education legislation, Illinois)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Next spring, Tenesha Anderson will leave high school with two things she was not sure she would ever get: a diploma and a career. After graduating from Aspen Alternative High School in south suburban Robbins, the 19-year-old senior will...

Washington Says Goodbye. (Reporter News).(editor and publisher Laura S. Washington steps down from post)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Laura S. Washington will step down as editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter at the end of 2001, and Senior Editor Alysia Tate will become the publication's new leader. Washington held every job at the Reporter since starting as an...

The Chicago Reporter: September 1977.(Chicago Board of Education fails to meet racial desegregation standards)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... After failing to meet racial desegregation standards, the Chicago Board of Education agreed to open at least 25 vocational centers. None opened on the first day of school, the Reporter found, and the system was at risk of losing state and...

Bucking a national trend, Illinois was one of 11 states whose poverty rates rose from 1998 to 2000. (For the Record).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Bucking a national trend, Illinois was one of 11 states whose poverty rates rose from 1998 to 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's study "Poverty in the United States: 2000." The state's poverty rate increased from 10 to 10.8 percent,...

Federal health agencies fail to collect data on patients' race, ethnicity and language. (For the Record).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Federal health agencies fail to collect data on patients' race, ethnicity and language--information needed to meet federal goals for, eliminating disparities, according to an Oct. 18 report by the New York City-based Commonwealth Fund, which...

The Illinois Supreme Court. (For the Record).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Illinois Supreme Court recently struck down the state law that allowed a parent's rights to be terminated based on the length of time children spent in foster care. Since 1998, Illinois had declared parents "unfit" if their children had...

More Latinos Lack Insurance. (For the Record).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... * Thirty-one percent of Latinos in the Chicago-Gary-Kenosha metropolitan area had no health insurance last year, and across the United States the number of uninsured Hispanics increased by 270,000 between 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis...