By: Norman Parish - December 9, 2015 12:08 p.m.
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush is being challenged for his Illinois first district seat by veteran Chicago Ald. Howard Brookins Jr.
Last week, Brookins officially filed as a congressional candidate in the Democratic primary. Activist Tio Hardiman recently pulled out of the race to challenge Cook County Circuit Clerk Dorothy Brown for her seat.
“I’m running for Congress because our community needs a fighter in Washington to represent our needs and find solutions to our problems,” said Brookins, who has represented the city’s 21st Ward since 2003.
By: Norman Parish - December 9, 2015 11:57 a.m.
A bakery union is threatening to boycott Nabisco products in an effort to keep jobs from leaving a plant on the South Side of Chicago.
By: Norman Parish - December 9, 2015 11:52 a.m.
Call Tanisha Minnis a super fan of Wendell Phillips High School football team.
The 16-year-old honor roll junior missed just one game during the three years she has attended the Bronzeville neighborhood school in Chicago.
So, Minnis made sure she didn’t miss school last Wednesday.
That’s because it was the day Minnis and the school’s entire student body celebrated Phillips becoming the first Chicago public high school to win an Illinois championship in football. The rally attracted top city officials, including Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Ill. State Sen. Mattie Hunter (3rd Dist.), Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd Ward) and alumni.
By: Larissa M. Tyler - December 9, 2015 11:49 a.m.
Cook County Clerk Dorothy Brown has a bone to pick with a few Democrats she claims she has supported for years.
By: Norman Parish - December 9, 2015 11:30 a.m.
After requests from angry activists and several local officials, the U.S. Justice Department is launching an investigation into the practices of the beleaguered Chicago Police Department.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Monday the probe of the police department will focus on police use of force, racial bias and how allegations of misconduct are investigated.
By: Norman Parish - December 6, 2015 7:19 p.m.
After requests from activists and several officials, the U.S. Justice Department plans to launch an investigation into the practices of the Chicago Police Department, officials said.U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is expected to make an official announcement about the investigation later this week, according to news reports.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. and dozens of others marched 16 times around Chicago's city hall on Dec. 4 to protest the death of Laquan McDonald. A Chicago police officer has been charged with McDonald's death.
Fashion designer Chi Atanga is comfortable with an identity as a global African.
Based in Portugal and Cameroonian-British by background, he is currently in the U.S. looking for investment and sounding out potential markets. African-American communities are emerging consumers of music, movies and fashion from the continent, he says, and he hopes to ride the wave with a clothing brand that reflects his heritage.
WASHINGTON— The Food and Drug Administration this month approved genetically modified salmon, the first such altered animal allowed for human consumption in the United States.
NEW YORK, (UPI) -- A market return by U.S. holiday-goers and anticipation over OPEC's meeting at the end of the week pushed crude oil prices higher on the last day of November.
TOKYO, (UPI) -- Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. announced that their Playstation 4 gaming console has surpassed 30 million units sold worldwide.
By: Larissa M. Tyler - December 2, 2015 12:51 p.m.
Perhaps it’s the tough economy, perhaps it’s simply greed, but people are going to extremes measures to make ends meet these days, even involving some “creative” criminal activity. For example, a husband and wife team recently faked the deaths of their living children to scam their employer out of money. And it didn’t stop there. They also stole their coworkers’ identities.
By: Norman Parish - December 2, 2015 12:38 p.m.
Annette Clark misses her son, Rasul “Rocky” Clark, who died just three years ago.
So, she keeps many of his sports awards in a room in her south suburban home in Robbins, Ill. In November, Clark received another visible reminder of her son – a nearby street bearing his name.
By: Norman Parish - December 2, 2015 12:02 p.m.
In the mist of protests over an officer’s shooting of an African American teen, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Sunday that the city will expand its cop body camera program to six additional police districts by mid-2016.
By: Larissa M. Tyler - December 2, 2015 11:41 a.m.
It’s very inspiring when inner-city Chicago teens, who are currently living in a very challenging environment, get involved in something constructive and positive. It’s even more uplifting when their involvement is motivated by healthy living habits.
By: Norman Parish - December 2, 2015 11:30 a.m.
In one of Chicago’s most high profile killings, a 27-year-old Lansing, Ill. man was charged with murdering 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee.
Corey Morgan was accused last week of being involved in a shooting that killed Lee on Nov. 2 in an alley near 80th and Damien streets.
By: Norman Parish - December 2, 2015 11:13 a.m.
Citing public trust, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday dismissed embattled Police Supt. Garry McCarthy after recent protests over a police officer fatally shooting an African American teen.
Dancer Misty Copeland is working on a health-and-fitness book.
Grand Central Life & Style, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, announced Thursday that Copeland’s “Ballerina Body” is scheduled for 2017. Copeland, the first African-American woman to become the American Ballet Theatre’s principal dancer, is a member of President Barack Obama’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition.
By: Larissa M. Tyler - November 25, 2015 2:07 p.m.
The weather is changing and it’s getting cold and blustery here in Chicago. It’s time to pull out the heavy winter jackets. And of course the holidays are right upon us…staring us in the face. That means it’s time to shop for toys and gifts for the little ones.
By: Norman Parish - November 25, 2015 1:53 p.m.
When Telah Amauri Anderson was just 2 years-old, she pointed to her family’s television and proclaimed: “that’s what I want to do.”
So, the Matteson, Ill., girl’s mother enrolled her in a performing arts school.
“She was always dancing all over the place,” Charla Anderson recalled about her daughter. “She would repeat lines from TV. We knew we had to get her into something.”
