Not every business in my neighborhood has "Keep Out ICE" signs, but many do. Summer is here, and I'm on the streets, taking urban hikes daily. Operation Midway Blitz ended in October. Its repercussions live on. Still, the signs are everywhere.

Some days, I think I might count them, but then again, I don't want to have to focus only on them. So I take photographs instead. My guess is that upwards of half the businesses still bear witness to the invasion. Of course, those owned by corporations,...

Check out my guest blog post at "Literacy in Place," a website about rural literacy and literature for youth.

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I was back in Cook County Jail after a two-year pandemic hiatus. Liz—my GA—and I were sitting in the mini-auditorium-turned-classroom waiting for the eleven incarcerated men to be brought to us. We had arranged the chairs in a tight circle—thirteen this week. Next week it would be twenty-three when the DePaul students joined us. This day, Liz and I were there to introduce ourselves and prepare the men for my Inside-Out university course, “Deconstructing the School to Prison Pipeline.” For...