The cover article of last week’s Reader, “Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Propaganda,” tells a story Chicago’s heard before—how the police version of a police encounter in which officers shot someone dead turns out to bear little or no resemblance to the truth. Most famously, there was the night in 1969 when Fred Hampton, leader of Chicago’s Black Panthers, supposedly died in a gun battle with police. In reality, the police broke in and shot him dead in bed.
This short history from AREA Chicago recalls the moment:
“Insurgent poverty,” I told Holliday. Whatever that means, he didn’t object to the ring of it.
“The program hopes to reach aspiring journalists who don’t necessarily have the resources to attend a big-name journalism school . . . for instance, those who are not going to college at all, or going to a community college or trade school.
Though I think that bunch would have sprung for some grapes.
