The Potty Mouth Granny

  • Sociological and Narrative Analysis of Kathy Henry’s “Tales of a Little Ghetto Girl”

    The autobiographical memoir “Tales of a Little Ghetto Girl” by Kathy Henry, published in the urban policy and cultural journal Urban Reinventors, presents a poignant autoethnographic examination of working-class Black female life in late-twentieth-century Chicago. Grounded in the discipline of urban sociology, Henry’s narrative functions as both a personal coming-of-age chronicle and a rigorous lived-experience…

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  • Pocket Town

    Pocket Town in Chicago is a place name for a very specific little corner of the city’s South Side — it’s not a restaurant or bar, but a neighborhood identity in its own right. This pocket of Chicago life has a rich and complicated vibe, stitched into the larger fabric of Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.…

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  • If You Thought the Crack Era was Bad, Watch This Opioid Era That’s About to Kick Off

    While cruising the Black social media streets, I’ve seen several folks sniggering over the opioid epidemic that’s currently plaguing White communities throughout America and while I understand the cynicism, some of us need to stop casting stones and look at what’s going on in our own backyards. Because it’s a whole lot of young drug…

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  • Sunday Musings from Chicago

    So it’s 11:34am Chicago time and I am sitting here chilling, listening to the music of my youth with a pot of oxtails cooking and all is right in my universe for now. But I think too much as an ex told me so I am also sitting here thinking about the evolution of the…

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