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...Farrakhan outdrew a 1992 World Series game the same night. In Los Angeles last October he filled the 16,500-seat Sports Arena. In New York City a December speech by Farrakhan drew 25,000 to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. This month in Chicago, when black aldermen needed a celebrity speaker to raise funds for their legal defense in a censorship case, they did not turn to Jackson or Chavis or Mfume but to Farrakhan, the one black man they felt could fill any hall in town. Wherever he presents himself as "a voice for the voiceless," crowds...
...profiles," which the students suspect really means taking note of potentially offensive works in progress. School officials may not want to be burned again by their students' knack for controversy. In 1988 an exhibition featuring a portrayal of the late Mayor Harold Washington in women's underwear prompted enraged aldermen to take the painting off the wall in protest. A year later, veterans' groups went ballistic over a student's placing of an American flag on the floor, which encouraged visitors to traipse across it as part of the artistic experience. While officials staunchly defended the right to free expression...
...coalition of white aldermen who had opposed Washington throughout his years in office supported Sawyer, a little-known Black alderman who had reluctantly supported Washington's administration, to cause infighting among Blacks. Daley had his political base of white voters, he just had to make sure that he and his supporters didn't make any racist statements that would unite Black voters against...
Less than a year ago, enraged aldermen barged into the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and snatched from a wall a portrait of the late Mayor Harold Washington in lacy lingerie. Last week the institute was defending another inflammatory exhibit, a work by Scott Tyler, self-proclaimed "supporter of the Revolutionary Communist Party U.S.A.," titled What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag? Its key component: an American flag stretched out on the floor. The institute claimed that Old Glory was positioned so viewers would not be forced to walk on it. But Joseph Morris...
...that point, Steele denied the request for an injunction and allowed the committee to proceed with its November 30 vote. He said it was only a preliminary step in a process that would eventually place the plan before Chelsea's Board of Aldermen as well as the State Legislature...