Why It’s So Hard To Find Male Mentors In Chicago
An official with Big Brother Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago says finding mentors on the West and South sides is a struggle.
An official with Big Brother Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago says finding mentors on the West and South sides is a struggle.
The Belmont Rocks was a huge gathering spot for the LGBTQ community in the 1980s. Now, an author is compiling an oral history of the area.
‘Morning Shift’ talks with the editor of ‘Poetry Magazine,’ Don Share about how to get over your fear of poetry, and how to engage with an art that so many find opaque.
WBEZ’s sports contributor Cheryl Raye Stout introduces us to the Chicago Bears’ new quarterbacks.
New York Times reporter Ken Belson discusses what changes youth football organizers are making to convince parents the sport is safe.
A new documentary, Blueprint for Bronzeville, tells the story of the community organizers who tried to leverage the Olympic bid into a slew of affordable homeownership for the South Side community. It’s one of the entries in this year’s Black Harvest Film Festival. Morning Shift talks to the director and one of the neighborhood organizers.
Dick Orkin joins us to talk about reviving Chickenman for a new generation.
Eliza Furnier, program director with the Chicago Botanic Garden, joins Morning Shift to take listener’s gardening questions
I met Wayne F. Miller for the first and only time in 2008. He was a soft-spoken man who, with his camera, had documented many of the 20th century’s events that I’ve always been interested in: The Pacific Theater during World War II, Chicago’s African American communities during the Great Migration, itinerant farm workers.