Diary of A Free Black Journalist Telling The Human Stories of The Forgotten, The Marginalized and The Invisible in Chicago and Beyond. This is home to John W. Fountain's column and other works.
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“I Shall Not Die But Live”
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By John W. Fountain
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"I Shall Not Die But Live"
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My Gift To You: A New Song of Hope
By John W. Fountain
ON THIS SUNDAY MORNING, as the sun rises, this is my gift to you. A reminder, just in case you have forgotten, of the challenges you have faced over a lifetime and yet overcome. Challenges, trials, hardships, situations...
The Ghetto Used To Be Good Enough
By John W. Fountain
Waxing nostalgically about growing up on Chicago's West Side in a place called K-Town, Ghetto Used To Be Good Enough by JWes the Writer is a stirring rhythmic song laced with sweet sentimental lyrics and melody of a bit...
A Mayor Dances, A City Bleeds: The Endless Cycle of Violence Claiming Young Black Men
By John W. Fountain
Thirty-two years later, I can still hear the anguished, blood-curdling wails of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer’s grandmother filling a West Side Chicago sanctuary of a church on a late-summer’s day in 1994 day as the 11-year-o...
Nearly 40 Years, Too Many Funerals: A Chicago Reporter Reflects on a Generation of Lost Children
The front cover of the reprint of a Chicago Tribune series, “Killing Our Children” in 1993 in which John Fountain was among a number of reporters who contributed to the report.
This story republished here with slight amendments originally...
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