On September 24, BPI’s Co-Director of Public Housing and Mobility, Senior Staff Counsel, Alexander Polikoff, interviewed Sheryll Cashin and discussed her new book, White Space, Black ‘Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality. This in-depth conversation will…
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In July 2021, the Chicago City Council passed a transformative ordinance to empower Chicago communities in building public safety in Chicago. The Empowering Communities for Public Safety (ECPS) is a historic ordinance that represents many years of work by the Grassroots Alliance…
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As a member of the Ida B. Wells Monument Committee and fiscal sponsor of this project, BPI attended the unveiling of the monument in June 2021. Created by sculptor Richard Hunt, the monument honoring renowned journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells…
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BPI is working with Cabrini Green Legal Aid (CGLA) and the Illinois Justice Project (ILJP) to launch Justice 20/20: The Demand For Equity. This multi-year initiative will bring together individuals and organizations to collaborate to address issues within the Illinois…
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In 2021, BPI continued to fight to decrease the Illinois prison population equitably, including expanded mechanisms for midsentence review. Ashton Hoselton, BPI Staff Counsel and Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellow, fought for the parole of Mr. Allen, an inmate incarcerated at the Dixon Correctional Center who had…
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On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave his prolific oration, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” in which he spoke to the values that the Founding Fathers aspired to––and how the country continued to fall short of those ideals as they relate to the treatment of Black people and the ongoing stain of slavery.
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On June 4, 2020, BPI joined Parole Illinois, Chicago Torture Justice Center, Chicago Votes, and Mothers Activating Movements for Abolition & Solidarity (MAMAS) in co-sponsoring “A People’s Tribunal: COVID-19 and the Crisis of Death by Incarceration.” More than 250 participants,…
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Artishia Hunter, Senior Education Associate at BPI, recently had the pleasure of interviewing an educator and a parent in the Altgeld-Riverdale community. While equity in education was the focus of our interviews, these individuals also speak to how families are…
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This weekend, thousands of Chicagoans came together from across the city, in anguish and anger, to decry the horrific brutality perpetrated against George Floyd. The protests were catalyzed by a single incident, but they were driven by a long and terrible…
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Our staff was recently posed the following question: “What’s inspiring you these days?” We’re all fortunate enough to be able to carry out our work from home, but many of our partners and colleagues are at the frontlines. We’re thinking…
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