
All Together Now: artists of the wall 2025 celebrate our lives together
While Trump was celebrating his birthday reviewing a military parade, the people of Rogers Park were celebrating their commitment to living together in harmony with works of mural art on the Loyola Park seawall. Every Father’s Day weekend since 1993, Rogers Park residents celebrate the richly diverse peoples and...

KILLING THE GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGGS:Trump’s War on Higher Education
This article is the fourth in a series examining the attacks on US higher education. Links to the previous three articles are posted at the end of this essay published 12 May 2025 in Windy City Times. The middle two essays were written collaboratively with my Loyola University Chicago colleague Arthur Lurigio. ...

Chicago Native Cardinal Robert Prevost of American Creole ancestry elected first US American pope, takes name Leo XIV
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, Chicago-born and -raised, was elected as the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church on the second day of the Vatican Conclave, May 08, 2025, which is the Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii. The Prevost family is of American Creole lineage with ancestors who were Black, French,...

PEN International at the United Nations, March 2025
This year, 2025, marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the historic plan for gender equality. At this year's meeting of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW 69) at the United Nations, the focus was on what we had accomplished and where are we today in the implementing...

The 69th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women10 to 21 March 2025
I am in the halls of the United Nations building in New York attending the 69th yearly sessions of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. This is the 30th time for me; for 30 years I have represented an NGO (Non-governmental Organization), PEN International, at these sessions. I am among...
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