Being overweight comes with chronic disease risks, such as higher cholesterol and higher blood pressure. These increase the risk of developing other diseases, including diabetes, which is at epidemic levels in the black community.
Diabetics have to take special care of their feet. The disease can cause peripheral neuropathy—otherwise known as nerve damage.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 26, 2014 4:10 p.m.
As a way to provide Triton College students with seamless transitions into four-year universities, Triton College School of Business is working to develop new partnerships with Chicagoland universities including Robert Morris University and National Louis University, where students can legitimately transfer credits towards a baccalaureate business program.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 26, 2014 3:59 p.m.
If you're a woman, and the recent Gubernatorial Primary Election inspired you to run for political office, you can sign up for Emily’s List Political Opportunity Program. A spokesperson for the Emily’s List group says more women of color representatives are needed at the Congressional level.
Vernita Gray, one half of Illinois’ first legally married lesbian couple, passed away last Tuesday after succumbing to breast cancer. Gray, 65, married her wife, Pat Ewart, on November 27 last year, after a federal judge made a ruling in respect to Gray’s terminal illness that allowed Gray and Ewart to marry before Illinois’ Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act took effect on June 1, 2014.
By: Lee Edwards - March 26, 2014 3:31 p.m.
Last week, the United Negro College Fund, Inc. (UNCF) hosted the conclusion of its 6th annual Empower Me Tour (EMT) at Chicago State University's (CSU) Jones Convocation Center, 9501 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr.
Englewood residents who want more stake in their community in terms of real estate, may have an opportunity to invest through a new initiative under Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Large Lot Pilot program where city-owned vacant lots can be purchased for $1 in the Greater Englewood area.
By: Lee Edwards - March 26, 2014 3:20 p.m.
A spotlight is shining brightly on Wendell Phillip Academy High School (WPAHS) 244 E. Pershing, via its new television production class, affectionately known as “Behind the Paws.” The popular class provides students with a platform to learn the basics of television production and broadcasting and how to effectively use social media networks to influence the news and film industries.
By: Lee Edwards - March 26, 2014 3:12 p.m.
The Chatham Business Association (CBA) hosted the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA) at the QBG building, 806 E. 78th St., last week for a special meeting constructed around NICVA’s desire to learn more about CBA’s community, economic development and youth engagement programs.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 26, 2014 3:07 p.m.
Over the past eighteen years, African American University of Cincinnati (U of C) students and two administrators from the university have embarked upon an annual Spring Break Corporate Excursion Trip as part of the ADVANCE Organization, a professional development student organization designed to help students make the transition from college to career by developing their leadership and networking skills, developing business etiquette, and understanding corporate and workplace cultures.
During the trips, students make connections on their visits with a mixture of black-owned, minority-owned, nonprofit and Fortune 500 companies as well as government agencies. The goal is to expose students to experiences that they’re not exposed to in a classroom setting.
NEW YORK- Norm Lewis has been tapped to be Broadway's next Phantom in the megahit "The Phantom of the Opera," a move that makes him the first African-American to slip behind the famous mask on the Great White Way.
First lady Michelle Obama plans to avoid politics and focus on education and people-to-people contacts on her first visit to China.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 20, 2014 12:49 p.m.
A collaboration between the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) African-American Cultural Center (AACC) and the Chicago Blues Museum, provides an up close and personal view of historic Bronzeville by way of an exhibit titled “Migration and Transformation through the Arts: The Soul of Bronzeville,” which features photography, memorabilia, film, video footage and displays from the Chicago Blues Museum’s archival collections.
By: Lee Edwards - March 20, 2014 11:15 a.m.
The Village of Hazel Crest’s Board of Trustees recently voted to appoint the village’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Marlo Kemp, to the position of Village Manager after the retirement of Kemps’ predecessor, James Whigham, Sr., who served the village for two years, until he officially stepped down on February 28.
By: Lee Edwards - March 20, 2014 11:05 a.m.
Illinois State Senator Mattie Hunter (D-3) assembled state employment agencies at Kennedy King College, 6301 S. Halsted, last week for a workshop designed to educate residents within her district about jobs available at the State of Illinois. The event also featured a small job fair for the unemployed and under-employed.
By: Lee Edwards - March 19, 2014 4:27 p.m.
Circle Foundation is holding its 5th Annual Awards Gala fundraiser on Sunday, March 23 at the Alhambra Palace Restaurant, 1240 W. Randolph St., to benefit "second chance" high school students earning a high school diploma.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 19, 2014 2:35 p.m.
Following weeks of campaigning , the 2014 Gubernatorial Primary Election ended with the Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and his running mate for Lt. Gov., former Chicago Public Schools Chief, Paul Vallas, being nominated to run against Republican candidates, Bruce Rauner and Evelyn Sanguinetti in the Nov. 4 General Illinois Gubernatorial election.
By: Deborah Bayliss - March 12, 2014 4:09 p.m.
In light of the March 31 sign up deadline for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Health Insurance mandate, Dr. Robert Winn, associate vice president for community based practice, University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, urges African Americans to take advantage of the opportunity to get covered.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle set in motion the development of a plan that will look at the County’s transportation network and its impact on economic growth and quality of life over the next 25 years.
Mathew Knowles who was once managed Beyonce and Destiny’s Child, making gazillions in the process, is now down and out and can barely pay child support.
