Just Relations

Chicago’s religious and spiritual leaders weigh in on the city’s news and explore solutions to its problems.

Just as ministers and their congregations united in cities across the nation to fight racial injustice after Emmett Till’s murder, they do so today.
It’s a shame our nation has moved toward immigration restrictions and Muslim bans, slicing into our rich diversity, writes Omer M. Mozaffar.
Black History Month is a good time to think about how we can do better to improve race relations, Theresa Dear writes. And she has a few suggestions.
DACA has been kicked around like a political football, but immigration reform is a human issue as much as a political one, Rabbi Seth Limmer writes.
Slain Cmdr. Paul Bauer was a mentor and uplifting presence to some of the African American protesters he encountered in Chicago.
Faced with an onslaught of violence, paired with federal inaction, it is easy to feel hopeless. In Chicago, we are neither, Rabbi Seth Limmer writes.
Louis Farrakhan is hated by many. But for his followers, he is an authentic voice of African American dissent in a hostile society.