Martha Bayne
Martha Bayne is a Chicago-based freelance journalist and associate editor of the Social Justice News Nexus program at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. Her work has been published in the Baffler, Belt Magazine, Chicago Reader, the Chicago Reporter, the Chicago Tribune, Eater and with San Juan's Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, among other regional and national outlets.
‘Colonialism is scary as hell’: Puerto Rican activists in Chicago stage a haunted house
The spooky, interactive experience uses archival audio and video, as well as original art, to trace different periods in the history of Puerto Rico, from the 16th-century Spanish colonization through the United States takeover in 1898 and, finally, Hurricane Maria.
