By: Lee Edwards - September 17, 2014 1:09 p.m.
On Sept.10, at Chicago's City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined Chicago Football Classic Inc. co-founders, Everett Rand and Larry Huggins, for a press conference where he lent his support for the 17th Annual Chicago Football Classic (CFC) game which showcases the football teams and marching bands of two top historically black colleges or universities (HBCUs).
WASHINGTON (AP) — Opening a new military front in the Middle East, President Barack Obama authorized U.S. airstrikes inside Syria for the first time Wednesday night, along with expanded strikes in Iraq as part of "a steady, relentless effort" to root out Islamic State extremists and their spreading reign of terror.
By: Brenda Camp Yarbrough - September 11, 2014 11:05 a.m.
Dr. Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the black church in his latest book, “Plantation Church: How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery.”
By: Deborah Bayliss - September 10, 2014 5:04 p.m.
Mike Riordan, associate vice president of Strategic Sourcing for the Art Institute of Chicago, was one of two guest speakers at the Chatham Business Association’s (CBA) monthly membership meeting on Tuesday where he discussed small business procurement opportunities with the museum and the museum's school.
A law enforcement official says he sent a video of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee to an NFL executive five months ago, while league executives have insisted they didn't see the violent images until this week.
By: Lee Edwards - September 10, 2014 4:43 p.m.
The creation of the statue was commissioned by the Chicago Park District and The Friends of Dunbar Park (TFDP).
By: Deborah Bayliss - September 10, 2014 4:12 p.m.
The YMCA of Metro Chicago unveiled $3.6 million in renovation s to its South Side YMCA (Y) facility located at 6330 S. Stony Island Ave., last Thursday. In celebration of the overhaul, the Y offered visitors tours of the facility, sample "work-out" classes and conducted a drawing for a one-year free membership.
By: Lee Edwards - September 10, 2014 3:38 p.m.
Last week at a press conference, held at 33 W. Monroe St., Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel signed an Executive Order requiring City contractors and subcontractors to pay employees a $13 per hour minimum wage of for contracts advertised after October 1, 2014.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The desk where President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his "fireside chats." An eagle ornamental feature from the top of the flagpole on the White House roof. A desk with an intercom system that allowed the chief White House usher to contact staff in other parts of the building.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaving his timing uncertain, President Barack Obama laid out ambitious objectives Friday for immigration steps he intends to take on his own and said he had already received some recommendations from the Homeland Security and Justice departments for executive action he could implement without Congress.
By: Lee Edwards - September 3, 2014 3:37 p.m.
Jackie Robinson West All-Stars Little League (JRW) Manager, Darold Butler, a volunteer little league baseball coach, returned home to a hero’s welcome after guiding his team on a historic and magical run to become the first all African American Little League Baseball team to become U.S Champions.
By: Lee Edwards - September 3, 2014 12:59 p.m.
The undisputed feel good story that came out of the 2014 Little League World Series (LLWS) was none other than 13-year-old African-American female pitcher, Mo’ne Davis, of the Taney Dragons Little League Baseball Team from Philadelphia, Pa.
By: Deborah Bayliss - September 3, 2014 10:54 a.m.
Upon returning home to Chicago as Little League Baseball’s 2014 World Series, U.S. Champions, the Jackie Robinson West (JRW) All Stars Little League team were greeted with nothing but joy and excitement from their hometown fans. The team's accomplishments were so impressive and so mesmerizing, that a prideful, Ill. Gov. Pat Quinn, proclaimed Wednesday, Aug. 27, as “Jackie Robinson West Championship Day” in honor of the team’s U.S. championship win and as runner up in the Little League World Series.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With a self-imposed deadline looming, President Barack Obama said Thursday he still intends to act on his own to change immigration policies but stopped short of reiterating his past vows to act by end of summer.
By: Lee Edwards - August 27, 2014 4:47 p.m.
Officials at Chicago State University (CSU), 9501 S. King Dr., announced during a press conference last week, the hiring of the school's new athletic director, Dr. Denisha L. Hendricks, formerly of Kentucky State University, where she served in the same capacity.
NEW YORK (AP) — BET has suspended a producer after a joke about Beyonce and Jay Z's daughter that aired Monday on the network's music video countdown show, "106 & Park."
By: Lee Edwards - August 27, 2014 4:12 p.m.
“I gathered together a group of people from the community and invited them to join me in discussions about what kind of festival that showcased films that deal with issues and the life of the black diaspora and of African Americans and what a festival like that would be like,” said Barbara Scharres, Director of Programming and founder of The Black Harvest Film Festival. “Each year it’s grown and we feel like we’re always learning something and doing new things to develop it further and develop an audience because the whole point is to bring the audience and the films together.”
Singer Ray J has pleaded not guilty to groping a woman at a Beverly Hills hotel bar and resisting arrest afterward.
By: Lee Edwards - August 27, 2014 3:11 p.m.
In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Summer, U.S. Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-2nd) recently organized a bus tour for youth that made stops at several historical African American sites across the Chicagoland area.
By: Deborah Bayliss - August 27, 2014 3:07 p.m.
Seaway Bank and Trust Company, Chicago’s largest black-owned bank, welcomed its new president and CEO last Friday at a meet and greet reception held in his honor. Darrell B. Jackson (right), 56, former president of Northern Trust’s wealth management department in suburban Illinois, started in his new position this month replacing Walter Grady who led Seaway for more than 30 years before retiring July 31.
