“If we’re not creating spaces for young people to congregate and be young, but we are creating an ordinance that, while it doesn’t arrest, it does create prohibitions for young people to be young in ...

A new study compares Grand Rapids Documenters’ notes with official city meeting minutes, showing how our approach to note ...

— Jenny Hua, interim deputy commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health on how mental health affects Chicago's life expectancy gap between Black and non-Black residents. There is a growing ...

This piece is part of our spring Documenters Showcase—a content series spotlighting the stories, impact, and growing network of people and organizations around the U.S. shaping participatory media and ...

Nita Tennyson felt compelled to act after seeing her people in her community struggle to find basic resources and living supplies early in the COVID-19 pandemic and during widespread looting in 2020.

On a Monday evening in March, teenagers and their parents attended an open house at the Arts + Public Life Arts Block in Washington Park. Julia Hinojosa, the associate director of education programs, ...

José Muñoz doesn’t have many photos of his childhood — almost all of them were lost between evictions and living in homelessness during his youth. His mother, an immigrant, worked two jobs to provide ...

It’s Nov. 4, 2024 — a foggy Monday afternoon in Chicago. In less than 36 hours, voters will elect Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. Chicago Votes is hosting its last phone ...

Chad Emerson didn’t fully grasp how politics could shape his life — until he was incarcerated. Emerson, 39, was convicted of felony drug charges in 2012 and spent nearly eight years in federal prison ...

Once a sponsored sailboat racer and geologist, Jamie Grisko, 35, faced early retirement after an acute COVID-19 infection. Grisko, of North Lawndale, was diagnosed in December 2020 during early ...