The Gray-Green Movement
Why older caregivers are turning environmental concern into political action Fact checked by Shannon Sparks As a care manager for my late father, it rarely occurred to me to become politically engaged, even though in my work as a beat reporter in the late 1970s, I saw the worst of Chicago’s South Suburbs and South Chicago […]
Power to the People
Senior activists make their voices heard Crystal McGee had already begun praying when she felt the spit hit her skin. It was 1966, and McGee knelt at a prayer vigil in Cicero. She remembers that Jesse Jackson, then an up-and-coming activist, was leading the vigil to advocate for a West Side family whose power had been shut […]