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Jahmal Cole is founder and CEO of My Block My Hood, My City, a community organization that serves 150 students from 10 different schools throughout Chicago and looks to ensure residents and block clubs have necessary resources. Photo courtesy of Jahmal Cole

COMMUNITY ACTIVIST USES INSTINCTS TO CREATE INITIATIVES

Jahmal Cole has been dedicated to making a difference in the community with his organization My Block, My Hood, My ...

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GoodGirlPR Launches New Jazz/Pop Project with ...

GoodGirlPR has announced an untitled collaboration between Christina Jones and composer/pianist Kimiko Ishizaka to be released this year. The album ...

Imani Motion Pictures Releases New Trailer ...

Imani Motion Pictures has released the brand new trailer for the urban lit cult classic DUTCH, based on the first ...

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Catherine Stovall pictured at her 100th year birthday celebration. Photo courtesy of the Village of Robbins

HUNDREDS GATHERED THIS PAST MONDAY TO ...

Catherine lived through the Great Depression of 1929-1933. The Depression was no fun. They hardly had food to eat and ...
It was July 27, 1919 when 17-year-old Eugene Williams was stoned by whites and drowned after he his raft accidently crossed the unofficial barrier between Chicago’s white and black beaches at 29th Street now renamed 31st Street Beach. Seven days of rioting followed and ended on Aug. 3, but not before 38 people died (23 blacks and 15 whites), 537 injured and more than 1,000 people left homeless due to arson. Photo Courtesy: City of Chicago

Chicago remembers 1919 Race Riots

It was a little over a year ago this week when riots erupted on the South Side following the death ...

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