
Flesh-tone tights empower ballet dancers of color
By Eunice Wang Medill Reports A simple leotard and pink tights are the typical uniform for many ballet dancers when they train. It’s a tradition

By Eunice Wang Medill Reports A simple leotard and pink tights are the typical uniform for many ballet dancers when they train. It’s a tradition

By Kate Cimini Medill Reports While the re-introduction of a public library to the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago

By Emily Clemons Medill Reports I am a proud drinker of sh—y coffee. I am a longtime user of the ubiquitous and much-reviled Keurig coffee

By Eunice Wang Medill Reports Hiplet, the fusion of hip-hop and ballet, started back in 1990 as Homer Hans Bryant’s rap ballet. As a dance

By: Hannah Wiley and Joey Mendolia Medill Reports Tina Hammond has brought a splash of color and a message of hope to her Englewood neighborhood.

By Caroline Tanner Medill Reports CHICAGO – “Every woman is a pioneer,” rang loudly through the Chicago Theatre on October 24, during a night of

By Naomi Waxman Medill Reports Chicago celebrated the wicked, the wild and the weird Saturday, as artists from across the country strutted their stuff before

By Caroline Tanner Medill Reports WASHINGTON, DC — A content marketer for a D.C.-based tech company by day, Columbia Heights resident David Budimir, 26, has

By Dena Khalafallah and Tiffany Chen Medill Reports At 11 years old, Jin Qui Yue discovered her passion for dance and has followed it throughout

By Jiayan Jenny Shi Kelly Summers, 44, is a Chicago-born Native American who volunteers with Native Scholars, an after-school tutoring program at the American Indian Association of