WZRD News: How Brandon Johnson’s inner circle compares to past mayors’ PSA: Screening: “Barbie”
WZRD News 3/21/2024
How Brandon Johnson’s inner circle compares to past mayors’
PSA: Women’s History Month: Feminist Film Screening and Discussion: “Barbie”
By Lauren FitzPatrick and Justin Myers Mar 8, 2024, 5:30am CDT
Under Mayor Brandon Johnson, Black people hold more top salaried city jobs and top mayoral appointments than any other racial group, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis has found.
Along with Johnson, Chicago’s fourth Black mayor, Black city leaders now include the police superintendent, fire commissioner, corporation counsel, budget director plus heads of several city departments and the Chicago Housing Authority and the Chicago Transit Authority, all key mayoral appointments.
Among those in political posts in Johnson’s administration, jobs that pay the most or hold the greatest authority, people who identify as Latino remain underrepresented, the Sun-Times analysis found.
That was the case even as Latino residents now comprise the second-largest racial or ethnic group in Chicago, after whites, with Black residents now in third place.
Asian Americans no longer hold any of these top City Hall jobs, as they did under Johnson predecessors Lori Lightfoot, Rahm Emanuel and Richard M. Daley.
For a progressive mayor who took office pledging to take care of all of Chicago’s neighborhoods, this disconnection has attracted calls from the Chicago City Council Latino Caucus and the Asian American Caucus for better representation.
A top Johnson aide says he is committed to finding “folks that are ready to do the work and prepared to do it and can execute, and also are reflective of the population.”
Diversity among the city’s overall workforce — not just the mayor’s inner circle of political appointees — has inched closer to what Chicago looks like demographically, vastly different from the heavily white city payroll in 2011, at the end of Daley’s 22 years in office.
Since then, the numbers of Black staff members and white city employees both have dipped, while the city has added Latino and Asian American workers.
But the city payroll remains disproportionately white, according to the analysis using city data from late 2023.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times, March 8, 2024.
PSA: Women’s History Month: Feminist Film Screening and Discussion: “Barbie”
Women’s History Month: Feminist Film Screening and Discussion: “Barbie”
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2024, 4 – 7PM
As part of Women’s History Month, the Angelina Pedroso Center for Diversity and Intercultural Affairs at Northeastern Illinois University will host a screening of “Barbie.”
A panel discussion will follow.
Free and open to the public. Please contact park@neiu.edu for parking information.
On Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 4:00 p.m. -7:00 p.m.
At NEIU Main Campus, 5500 N St Louis Ave, Room LWH 1002
For more information, please contact: Fawn E. Pochel, f-pochel@neiu.edu
Musical accompaniment by Caroline Cabading, with the songs, Arm in Arm, Fits Just Fine, and The Cousins of La Union, from the album, Sugilanon.
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