Read Chance The Rapper's Heartfelt Foreword to Mentor Kevin Coval's "A People's History of Chicago"

Chance The Rapper is amplifying his political voice. Last week the Chicagoan rapper met with Illinois governor Bruce Rauner to talk about Chicago's education system; this week, he shared his political concerns with Katie Couric. Today, Pitchfork published Chance's powerful foreword for his mentor Kevin Coval's "A People's History of Chicago," a poetry collection that chronicles the segregated city's cultural innovators, political thinkers and hip-hop culture origins. Poet and activist Kevin Cova...