CHICAGO — Happy Tuesday, Chicago. Here's what we're reading around the Web.
What Have We Learned About Police Shootings?: Over the last year, police shootings have been a hot topic of conversation. Heck, even the Fox comedy "New Girl" tackled the issue recently. Reporter Mina Bloom is reading NPR's summary of what we've learned, which addresses everything from what cellphone videos do and don't show, the impact body cameras have and more.
Women Can’t End the Wage Gap on Their Own: We just can't wrap our heads around the fact that it's once again Equal Pay Day and WOMEN IN AMERICA ARE STILL NOT PAID AS MUCH AS MEN. NY Mag's Ann Friedman says men should be frustrated by this too (yes, men, you should be) and they can help:
Just think: If Lilly Ledbetter’s male co-workers had been willing to tell her how much they made, she wouldn’t have steadily fallen behind for decades. She could have used that information to negotiate on her own behalf.
Rather than just encouraging women to ask for more money, on Equal Pay Day, we should be asking everyone to push employers for more clarity on how they make salary decisions. And we could all be more honest with our colleagues, especially those who have similar titles, about how much we’re earning ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln's assassination was covered by the AP: Tuesday marks the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. The Associated Press was in existence the night of the shooting — April 14, 1865 — and Senior Editor Justin Breen was surprised by the AP story's graphic nature. Included in AP's report of the shooting was this: "some of his brain was oozing out."
Hillary Rodham Clinton's high school yearbook photo.
Hillary's Chicago Awakening: With Hillary Rodham Clinton officially in the race for president, the Religion News Service put together "five facts" about her faith beliefs, including her lifelong friendship with the youth minister from her childhood Methodist church in Park Ridge. Don Jones' teaching of social justice to suburban kids like Clinton included taking them to inner-city churches in Chicago. In April of 1962, he also arranged for then-15-year-old Clinton and her friends to see the Rev. Martin Luther King at Orchestra Hall. Clinton's father, Hugh Rodham, thought King was a "rabble rouser," but her mother, Dorothy, was a kindred spirit of Jones. Clinton would later say the Chicago experiences opened her eyes "as a teenager to other people and the way they live."
Senior Editor Andrew Herrmann particularly likes Rodham's response when asked about prayer: Her favorite, she has joked, is, "Oh, Lord why can't you help me lose weight?"
Tax Cheats in Alabama: Who knew Bloomberg Business did comics, but it does, and there is a fascinating comic on how tax cheats are using the IRS to fund drug buys. Sam Cholke is reading about a whole new area of identity theft to be worried about for the elderly, mentally ill and prisoners. There's a lot of all three in Alabama, and the state is quickly becoming the center for the scheme.
Lakefront Not-so-Liberals?: Both the Reader and Chicago magazine took a look at the "Lakefront liberals" phenomenon that, according to the latest election statistics, is dead. Mayor Rahm Emanuel won 83 percent of the vote in the traditionally liberal 43rd Ward, and Gov. Bruce Rauner won more than 49 percent. The Reader's Ben Joravsky's says its "RIP lakefront liberal," but Chicago magazine argues the death of the liberal voting bloc that shunned the Democratic machine occurred decades ago.
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