By: Evan F. Moore - September 2, 2015 3:58 p.m.
The Chicago (IL) Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is once again serving the community.
By: Norman Parish - September 2, 2015 3:07 p.m.
According to several polls conducted last week, Homewood Flossmoor H.S., in south suburban Ill., has the No. 1 high school football team in the area.
By: Evan F. Moore - September 2, 2015 2:55 p.m.
The University of Illinois fired head football coach Tim Beckman last week once it learned the details of an external review that showed that Beckman had forced some of his players to play through injuries.
By: Evan F. Moore - September 2, 2015 2:38 p.m.
When social media got wind of a predominately African-American female book club getting kicked off of a Napa Valley wine train for laughing too loud on August 22, others who have witnessed similar incidents, created the hashtag “#LaughingWhileBlack.”
By: Norman Parish - September 2, 2015 2:26 p.m.
Gun control advocates are renewing calls to limit access to firearms following the fatal shootings of two television journalists by a former colleague in a small Virginia town.
By: Evan F. Moore - September 2, 2015 2:21 p.m.
Last week, users of the social media website Twitter, commemorated the 60th anniversary of the murder of 14 year-old Emmitt Till. Till’s gruesome death is widely known as the incident that sparked the Civil Rights Movement.
Till was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he alledgedly whistled at a white woman who worked at a nearby store. The men who were related to the woman, later kidnapped Till. Those men brutally beat him, shot him and threw his body into a nearby river. The men who killed Till were acquitted of all wrongdoing.
By: Norman Parish - September 2, 2015 2:13 p.m.
Jeanette Taylor-Ramann was hospitalized last week while on a hunger strike in protest of plans for the Walter H. Dyett High School building in the Bronzeville neighborhood in Chicago.
By: Norman Parish - September 2, 2015 2:01 p.m.
Illinois State Sen. Napoleon Harris III (Dist-15th) is entering a growing field of candidates running for the state’s U.S. Senate seat.
By: Evan F. Moore - September 2, 2015 12:04 p.m.
Believe it or not, the 18th annual Chicago Football Classic (CFC) is more about getting kids interested in attending college, than it is about the battle on the gridiron. And according to CFC co-founder Larry Huggins, the event is designed to show youth that after high school, there’s an entire world out there where they can do a lot of good, and be very successful.
By: Norman Parish - August 27, 2015 11:18 a.m.
Illinois Secretary of State, Jesse White, the only African American official serving in a statewide office, says he plans to retire when his term ends in 2019.
In this June 7, 2015 file photo, Misty Copeland arrives at the 69th annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, in New York. The high-energy revival of “On the Town” will close this summer - but not before the ballerina Copeland makes her Broadway debut in it. Producers said that the show will close after Copeland completes her already-planned stint on Sept. 6. She started Aug. 25 as Miss Turnstiles.
By: Evan F. Moore - August 26, 2015 3:04 p.m.
When Morgan Park High School student Charlie Moore first joined the school’s basketball varsity team, he had to wait patiently for his turn to play. That’s because the team was already stocked with future college players, making playing minutes hard to come by.
More than 100 non-violent, unjustly incarcerated Cook County Jail inmates could now be eligible to fight their cases while living and working within the community as a result of groundbreaking legislation effective immediately.
Senate Bill 202, sponsored by Rep. Mike Zalewski and Sen. Bill Cunningham in partnership with Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart, was signed late last Friday by Gov. Bruce Rauner.
By: Norman Parish - August 26, 2015 2:59 p.m.
A year ago, Justin Smith wasn’t sure he could attend a four-year university.
“I put in 150 applications for scholarships but I got no offers,” said the south suburban Ill. resident.
By: Norman Parish - August 26, 2015 1:33 p.m.
Johnny Byrd struggles to make ends meet as a single parent of two young children.
On Saturday, the Englewood resident got some help along with more than 10,000 others who received free groceries, haircuts and other assistance at the Convoy of Hope organization’s gathering at Marquette Park, 6743 S. Kedzie Ave., in Chicago.
By: Evan F. Moore - August 26, 2015 1:28 p.m.
A native of Chicago’s south side believes that adult conversations, like tequila, are best served straight up with no chaser.
By: Norman Parish - August 26, 2015 1:21 p.m.
Nearly three decades ago, Stephen C. Evans simply wanted to get a good education and prepare for law school as a student at The Citadel military school in South Carolina.
By: Evan F. Moore - August 26, 2015 12:48 p.m.
Last Thursday night, the official Twitter accounts of the Chicago and Baltimore Police Departments scheduled a “Tweetalong” that was designed to showcase to their Twitter followers, what police officers in both cities encounter nightly while on duty.
By: Evan F. Moore - August 26, 2015 12:45 p.m.
As movie goers flocked to see the film, “Straight Outta Compton,” a biopic about the pioneering hip-hop group, N.W.A., some of them noticed an increase of security guards and police officers at the theaters.
By: Norman Parish - August 26, 2015 12:02 p.m.
A decision on whether a medical marijuana dispensary will open in the heart of Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood may not occur until at least November.
The Chicago Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) agreed last Friday to extend its hearing to Nov. 20 to allow meetings between residents and the business group that wants to build the dispensary at 1111 E. 87th St.
