Same Lake, Unequal Rates

"Lake Michigan water rates have been surging throughout the Chicago region in recent years, squeezing low-income residents and leaving them with little, if any, recourse, a Tribune analysis shows... ...And the financial pain falls disproportionately on majority-African-American communities, where residents’ median water bill is 20 percent higher for the same amount of water than residents … Continue reading Same Lake, Unequal Rates

American Prison Writing Archive

The American Prison Writing Archive is "the largest collection to date of non-fiction writing by currently incarcerated Americans writing about their experience inside... ...[The] goal [of the archive] is to replace speculation on and misrepresentation of prisons and imprisoned people with first-person witness by those on the receiving end of American criminal justice. No single essay can … Continue reading American Prison Writing Archive