Portside

Closing 50 of our neighborhood schools is outrageous and no society that claims to care anything about its children can sit back and allow this to happen to them. There is no way people of conscience will stand by and allow these people to shut down nearly a third of our school district without putting up a fight. Most of these campuses are in the Black community. Since 2001 88% of students impacted by CPS School Actions are African-American. And this is by design.

A founding member of the Latino Arts Movement, Hernandez was 'our unofficial poet laureate'

They gathered to demand Congress stop the across the board cuts to people's programs scheduled to go into effect March 1.