In the halcyon ’90s, being a heavy rapper was in. Now? It’s more of a punchline. Emilia Petrarca traces hip-hop’s evolution through waistlines—and explains how we got from Big Pun to Theophilus London. by Emilia
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Education in Chicago: Shut up and go to school!
by Ben Joravsky Article Reprint Way back when, I knew a couple who let their children miss a day of school because the whole family was vacationing somewhere in the Carribbean and they just didn’t
Read moreAnthony McKinney dies in prison
By: Michael Miner Article Reprint Anthony McKinney has died where state’s attorney Anita Alvarez apparently wanted to keep him—in prison. He was 53. He was arrested in 1978, when he was 18 years old, for
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