By: Evan F. Moore - October 28, 2015 2:17 p.m.
The National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence, a coalition of nine national law enforcement leadership organizations, discussed gun violence occurring across the U.S. at a press conference during the annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) at Chicago’s McCormick Place this week.
By: Norman Parish - October 28, 2015 2:01 p.m.
A community activist was selected for the vacant seat of Ill. State Rep. Esther Golar, who died last month.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 28, 2015 1:48 p.m.
Jahmal Cole once volunteered at Cook County Jail’s Juvenile Detention Facility Automatic Transfer Unit.
“I noticed the teenaged boys were shackled like animals. Once the guard let them out of their chains, the young men approached me, shook my hand and hugged me,” Cole says. “As I sat back and listened to them, I couldn't help but feel like we [Chicagoans] had let these young men down. They grew up in communities with no access to opportunities, while most people live in comfortable Chicago communities wrapped up in an illusion of security.”
By: Norman Parish - October 28, 2015 1:09 p.m.
Former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson, who pleaded guilty to filing false income tax returns, started her one-year sentence in a federal prison camp in West Virginia, federal officials said.
By: Norman Parish - October 28, 2015 12:53 p.m.
African Americans are roughly 15 percent of the state’s population but get less than 10 percent of Illinois Tollway contracts.
By: Norman Parish - October 28, 2015 12:46 p.m.
Just two weeks ago, activist Tio Hardiman announced that he changed plans to seek a seat in Congress, and instead is running for Cook County Circuit Court Clerk – surprising some political insiders.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 28, 2015 12:35 p.m.
Gregory A. Thomas is the current president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Execuctives (NOBLE). NOBLE has nearly 60 chapters and over 3,000 members worldwide.
By: Norman Parish - October 22, 2015 12:56 p.m.
An office of diversity is being proposed as part of city government in Chicago by African American and Hispanic aldermen.
Cancer is much less common in elephants than in humans, even though the big beasts' bodies have many more cells. That's a paradox known among scientists, and now researchers think they may have an explanation — one they say might someday lead to new ways to protect people from cancer.
By: Norman Parish - October 22, 2015 12:42 p.m.
“Sir” Walter Scott, 72, has played a guitar for as long as he can remember.
By: Norman Parish - October 22, 2015 12:40 p.m.
Attempting to reduce shootings on the streets, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a new $250,000 gun buyback program.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For generations, teenage boys got their first look at a naked woman from Playboy, often from a copy swiped from Dad's sock drawer or filched from a newsstand.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 21, 2015 4:15 p.m.
Lately, Ebony magazine has been posting the covers to their upcoming monthly issues on Twitter and on Facebook. The cover they recently revealed for the upcoming November issue…let’s just say folks are talking...a lot.
By: Norman Parish - October 21, 2015 2:29 p.m.
When Thornton Township Supervisor Frank Zuccarelli, watched television coverage of the fatal church shootings in Charleston, S.C., this past summer, he expected an angry response.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 21, 2015 2:18 p.m.
The Beverly Unitarian Church, located at 10244 S. Longwood Dr. in Chicago, made headlines recently after promoting the Black Lives Matter movement on its digital sign. Now the church has decided to focus on other ways to address the matter of alleged police brutality against African Americas, an issue that has divided the nation.
By: Norman Parish - October 21, 2015 1 p.m.
Area residents could pay more for cable television service and a variety of other recreational activities if a budget proposal by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is approved.
By: Evan F. Moore - October 21, 2015 12:53 p.m.
Alexander Buckles, the Supplier Diversity Analyst for the McCormick Place, was the guest speaker at the Chatham Business Association’s (CBA) monthly meeting last week.
Will Smith is getting jiggy with music again.
The Grammy-winning rapper and Oscar-nominated actor appears on a remix of Colombian band Bomba Estereo’s song, “Fiesta.”electro sounds, on a recent trip to Colombia. He then asked the group to collaborate.
LAS VEGAS, Janet Jackson cancelled her Oct. 9 and Oct. 10 shows at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino to rest her vocal chords, and the Las Vegas stop on her “Unbreakable” tour will move to a new 20,000-seat arena in May.
A push to overhaul criminal sentencing is prompting the early release of thousands of federal drug prisoners, including some whom prosecutors once described as threats to society, according to an Associated Press review of court records.
