Category Archives: Chicago Writing
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
The “Intercollegiate Wonder Book” and the “New Negro”
“Realizing the need of an organization to bring together the few colored students attending the college and universities of Chicago in summer and living in various parts of the city, two social workers, Miss Mary McDowell and Mrs. Celia Parker … Continue reading
Mike Royko: Controversy…and the Cubs
When Mike Royko died in 1997, Chicago mourned. Granted, a few of the many people he confronted in his no-nonsense manner may have secretly celebrated, but his death was seen by many as the end of an era, when newspaper … Continue reading