Race in Chicago

In today’s edition of “Race in Chicago,” NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter examines the divide that limits the access of minority communities to mental health care.

If there was one thing in life former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington loved, it was being mayor. “We’re number one, we’re number one, one, one,” he grinned and chanted with a female group of Chicago Bears fans during the team’s run to the 1986 Super Bowl title. Washington relished moments of levity, even in the midst of a titanic...

Members of the LGBTQ community shared their experiences with discrimination in light of Federal Bureau of Investigation data, which put race and sexual orientation as the top motivators for hate crimes. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

George Floyd’s tragic interaction with police has demonstrated the importance of a conversation that happens in many Black homes. In today’s edition of “Race in Chicago,” NBC 5’s Christian Farr has the story of a conversation simply known as “the talk.”

When Chicago Public School (CPS) students were shifted to online learning in the spring of 2020, it was a reality check for the district, for parents, and for students. During the immediate aftermath of the decision, CPS scrambled to hand out more than 128,000 devices. Another 39,000 were distributed when it was announced students would continue re...

A Chicago family’s journey dates back to one of the worst race riots in the country. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports how a pioneering entrepreneur in Tulsa fought for fairness and left a legacy of greatness.

Marshan Allen was 15 years old when he says his brother sent him and two other older teens to an apartment on the South side of Chicago to take back cash and coke stolen by a fellow gang member. Allen insists he had no idea the older teens would open fire through the front door that day in March 1992,…

Asiaha Butler’s mission is to build up Chicago’s Englewood community through expanding homeownership. “I want to model what you can do,” she said, “because you could say it to somebody, but if they don’t really see it, they can’t, they may not believe it.” Butler first bought her own home then bought an income property, but she is an......

As many in America and here in Chicago seek new awareness about race, NBC 5 begins a new ongoing series of reports called “Race in Chicago.” Marion Brooks begins with a brief overview on how race has shaped so much in our lives throughout history and into today.

Asiaha Butler, president of Resident Association of Greater Englewood (RAGE), works with people in her community to help them buy a home, but she said most find it impossible. “We can’t get a leg up,” she said. “Every decade, we try, we get there and then we get knocked back down. And it really hurts, and it’s trauma a...

Asiaha Butler, president of the Resident Association of Greater Englewood (RAGE), discusses modern-day segregation in Chicago and the generations worth of injustice that led us here. “How do you dismantle that?” she asks.

From teaching a more honest history to financial reparations, Dr. Leslie Harris discusses 20th century forms of repair needed for our society.