John Fountain
Columnist at Chicago Sun-Times
Journalist, Author, Fulbright Scholar, Former New York Times Writer. Prof. Roosevelt University. Freed Black Journalist. Publisher.
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1 week ago |
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By John W. FountainON A COLD SUNNY April afternoon, I found spring, sparkling like hidden treasure just beyond glass doors in a garden paradise filled with splendid emerald grass and trees and a rainbow of flowers of varying species. I found her—spring—in full bloom inside this nearly 120-year-old edifice of mostly steel and glass on Chicago’s West Side, where I was born and raised and where the invisible fragrance of jasmine today swelled, like the giant, sprawling green palm trees.
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2 weeks ago |
johnwfountain.substack.com | John Fountain
From then Sun-Times Editorial Page Editor Lorraine Forte, April 21, 2022:“John, your tweet was brought to my attention. You are welcome to feel however you like about your pay rate. But of course no editor worth his/her salt is going to publish a line, in their publication, that basically denigrates that pay, which is the same as that received by other columnists. 50 Cent A Word is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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1 month ago |
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By John W. FountainAS A JOURNALIST, I strive to be a voice for the voiceless. For the invisible. To shine the light on hidden or dark corners of the world. Places like Chicago’s West Side’s North Lawndale community where I grew up, on the other side of the track. As a columnist, I strive to make a difference. To speak truth. To be honest. To be vulnerable and transparent. To capture and also to convey stories about the human experience, believing that our most common denominator is our humanity.
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1 month ago |
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“Over the last five years many religious bodies—Catholic, Protestant and Jewish—have been in the vanguard of the civil rights struggle, and have sought desperately to make the ethical insights of our Judeo-Christian heritage relevant on the question of race. But the church as a whole has been all too negligent on the question of civil rights.” –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community”By John W.
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1 month ago |
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I chose to keep smiling, to keep the faith... They are lessons I share with young journalists. I tell them to never internalize their disrespect. To master the craft. To be unafraid to speak truth to power. Lessons never more important than now. https://t.co/xG0V5LB8Go
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