Author Archives: Richard Guzman
The Neighbor Project Challenge: BE the Neighbor
May 11, 2019. Just a year after Emmanuel House and The Joseph Corporation merged to become The Neighbor Project, the new organization held its very first Gala fund raiser in one of Aurora’s newest premium venues: Bureau Gravity, just across … Continue reading
Robert S. Abbott: Champion of “The Race”
In 1905 Robert Abbott began one of the biggest return-on-investment acts of his day: he invested 25 cents to issue 300 copies of his newspaper The Chicago Defender. Eventually this two-cent weekly paper—which he heralded as “The World’s Greatest Weekly”—made … Continue reading
Willard Motley: His “Race”
In the Afterword of my book Black Writing from Chicago, after I apologize first for not including the great novelist Leon Forrest, I apologize second for not including Willard Motley. I wrote: “Among other worthy novelists that could not be … Continue reading