Linda Gartz | Author of Memoir "Redlined"

On Veterans Day, I always think of my beautiful, young, handsome Uncle Frank Ebner, whom I never met in person, yet I feel I know him intimately. Why? Because I have nearly 300 letters written to and from him from January 1943 to the end of September...

L-R Front: Leslie and Laura, Linda, Diana, Katy; back Carla.
Joan Baez was an iconic singer for those of us who came of age in the 1960s. I bought six tickets in February of this year for her “Fare Thee Well Tour,” which came to Chicago on Friday, October 5th. I was not prepared for the surprise that awaited me...

I met the real Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth, author of the memoir, BlackKklansman, last Monday night at our local Evanston bookstore, Bookends and Beginnings. It’s a small, indie bookstore with nooks and crannies, that somehow packed in about 100 people...

Martin Luther King made his “I have a dream” speech on August 28th, 1963. It was held that day in honor of the anniversary of Emmett Till’s torture and murder on the same date, in 1955.
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Then in 1968, after King himself had been murdered, Chicago hosted the most infamous of all party conventions: The Democratic National Convention of 1968, which became known as a “police riot” (per the Walker Report: “Rights in Conflict”) or “The Battle...