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Dispatches From the Wars

Counting up; White hiphop: Vanilla or strychnine?; New monsters under our beds; Living with mass murder; Unsecret storm; Do Not Resist? In Chicago

Aisha Oxley’s For Rekia—on display at the Hairpin Arts Center as part of “Do Not Resist?”—is a tribute to Rekia Boyd, the 22-year-old woman who was fatally shot by Chicago police officer Dante Servin in March 2012.,Kerry Cardoza

 

One Year After the Women’s March on Washington, People are Still Protesting En Masse. A Lot. We’ve Counted.

By Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman

January 21, 2018

Washington Post

Since the Women’s March on Washington on Jan. 21, 2017, we have recorded more than 8,700 protests in the United States through Dec. 31, 2017. About 74 percent of those protests were either against Trump administration policy or on issues that conflicted with the president’s viewpoint.

Rhymes From the Backwoods: The Rise of Country Rap

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By David Peisner

January 23, 2018

Rolling Stone

"Hick-hop" is thriving despite little to no help from the mainstream music industry.

Trump’s Cult of Personality Takes Paranoia to the Next Level

By Jeet Heer

January 26, 2018

New Republic

Conspiracy theories aren't hiding on the fringes. They're coming straight from the power centers in the White House and GOP.

School Shooting in Kentucky Was Nation’s 11th of Year. It Was Jan. 23.

By Alan Binder and Daniel Victor

January 23, 2018

New York Times

In the years since the massacres at Columbine High School in Colorado, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., gun safety advocates say, all school shootings seem to have lost some of their capacity to shock.

Meet “The Storm,” the Conspiracy Theory Taking Over the Pro-Trump Internet

By Will Sommer

January 12, 2018

Medium

In “The Storm,” which also goes by the handle “QAnon,” Trump fans can inhabit a world where their wildest Trump hopes can come true.

For the People Artists Collective Looks Back on 100 Years of Police Violence in Chicago

By Kerry Cardoza

January 24, 2018

Chicago Reader

"Do Not Resist?" spreads its message throughout the city.