On June 11, the FCC is putting an end to net neutrality, potentially creating an opportunity for ISPs to provide fast tracks for companies that can pay for them. How will this affect the voices of millions of people who can’t afford these fees? Will they reach less people? How does this affect the way our society records history today?
By many accounts, Democratic Illinois state senator Alice Palmer, an African American educator and politician, was good at her job. She represented the 13th district, a diverse constituency that encompassed the poorer Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods from Hyde Park to the South Shore and from the wealthier neighborhoods of lakefront west to the Chicago Lawn.…