After reading a recent Sun-Times investigation on opioid deaths among a generation of Black men, WBEZ editor Alden Loury ponders the role of racism and segregation in those deaths.

Black America, everywhere, still packs into the poorest parts of any town, but in Chicago the successive waves of immigrants poured into the city, found their own breeding pond and stayed there.

Latricia Walker, an outreach worker for the West Side Heroin/Opioid Task Force, hands a man a bag containing Narcan spray to prevent death from opioid overdose. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share The ...