Lorraine Forte

Editorial Page Editor

Year In Review 2022

We’ve heard more from our readers in 2022. Let’s keep the dialogue going

This year, I and the other members of the Sun-Times Editorial Board learned so much more about our readers — because we made more of an effort to solicit and publish opinion pieces and letters to the editor.

By Lorraine Forte

A protest march over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis made its way through downtown Chicago May 29, 2020, eventually closing off Ida B. Wells Parkway near the beginning of the Eisenhower Expressway.

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‘It’s all just too much,’ I said, my hands covering my face as I sobbed

A deadly pandemic, another Black man killed by the police and three years of a racist president. African Americans, in particular, are paying a steep price in mental health.

By Lorraine Forte