Dahleen Glanton
Dahleen Glanton is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Since coming to the Tribune from the Los Angeles Times in 1989, she has held several positions, including associate editor on the metro desk and Atlanta bureau chief. As a reporter, she covered many important issues in Illinois and across the nation, including Hurricane Katrina, military families, the Obama Presidential Center and national gun laws. A Georgia native, she is particularly interested in issues regarding race, civil rights and neighborhood violence. Dahleen recently took up piano, which helps keep her sane.
Recent Articles
-
Column: Donald Trump, butt out of Chicago's business!
Do not think for a moment that Donald Trump cares about killings in Chicago. Don’t let him trick you into believing that he and Kanye West can put their heads together over lunch and come up with a solution to our city’s violence problem. Don’t buy Trump’s line that he was so concerned about a...
-
Column: Van Dyke’s lawyers played a fake race card, and it was a losing one
Jason Van Dyke’s murder trial was all about race. Prosecutors knew it. Defense attorneys knew it. The convicted police officer knew it, too. The fact that 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was African-American was rarely mentioned outright during the trial. But the issue of his skin color was always...
-
Column: Officer Van Dyke's conviction cannot fully heal our city
Let’s not pretend that the conviction of Officer Jason Van Dyke will heal our broken city. It will not. Let’s not act as though sending a police officer to jail for murder absolves us of the long history of police misconduct that has recklessly taken lives and ruined so many others. It does not....
-
How Jason Van Dyke failed us all on the witness stand
From the moment we heard of the shooting, we waited to hear the police officer speak. We longed to hear Jason Van Dyke tell his side of the story, in his own voice, in his own words. We wondered how he would explain what happened that night in 2014, how he could possibly justify shooting 17-year-old...
-
Bobby Scott, "Bobby West Side"
Story starts here. dglanton@chicagotribune.com Twitter @dahleeng
-
With a flag and a microphone, protester demands justice in Van Dyke trial
Sometimes the man with the gray beard is the only one out there, standing behind the metal barricade waving a red, black and green flag in one hand and holding a microphone in the other. His black felt beret, with an emblem of a raised fist on the side, sits atop his black satin do-rag. He purchased...
-
The crucial question for jurors will be — why 16 shots?
No one seemed as frightened of Laquan McDonald the night he was killed as the man in the bulletproof vest. Not the truck driver who fended McDonald off by throwing his cellphone and a fistful of gravel after confronting the teenager in a parking lot. Not the woman who encountered McDonald in the...
-
What Bill Cosby has in common with the black wayward youth he once criticized
It is likely that Bill Cosby would not have approved of Laquan McDonald. The African-American icon didn’t like the way some black teenagers carried themselves, with their pants hanging low and their head covered with a hoodie. He often criticized people like McDonald’s parents for being too reckless...