Resident Association of Greater Englewood

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 attached...

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.