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Black Lives Are Shorter in Chicago. My Familyâs History Shows Why.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/magazine/life-expectancy-racial-gap.html
Chicago, 1959, the author and her mother; the author in Michigan as a child.Credit.Photo illustration by Mark Harris
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Black Lives Are Shorter in Chicago. My Familyâs History Shows Why.
How did a Promised Land to generations of Black families become a community of lost lives?
Chicago, 1959, the author and her mother; the author in Michigan as a child.Credit.Photo illustration by Mark Harris
April 27, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
On a wrinkled sheet of lined paper tucked in my momâs purse was a list of places we had jotted down, memories to visit. It was January 2020, and my mother and I were on a trip to Chicago, to see the places from her past and my early childhood in and around the Englewood section of the city, where she was born and raised, and where I was, too, before we moved to Denver in 1969. As we drove south in o