01/05/2022
ENGLEWOOD — An Englewood artist and activist is bringing a story of inequity on the South Side directly to neighbors with a new podcast. Tonika Johnson, in collaboration with the National Public Housing Museum, has launched the “Legally Stolen” podcast. The three-episode audio series offers a deeper dive into Johnson’s latest project, “Inequity for Sale“. The virtual and physical exhibit explores how homes sold through land sale contracts in Englewood in the ’50s and ’60s continue to impact the community. The first episode of “Legally Stolen” launched Dec. 15. It features Johnson alongside special guests. Two more episodes will drop in coming weeks. “I really wanted to inundate people with a variety of ways in which they could access and understand the project and, ultimately, the discriminatory housing practice of land sale contracts,” Johnson said. “Sometimes people learn better by hearing or listening.”
"It was important to have this exhibit be immersive so that the people who interact with this project can feel so informed and enlightened that they too can become an advocate," artist Tonika Johnson said.
