Community Focus
LOCAL CAREER COACH HELPS ORGANIZATIONS NAVIGATE THROUGH THEIR OUTCOMES
Dr. Angela Swain helps organizations achieve their outcomes. She is passionate about leadership development. She uses her experience and knowledge with one-on-one coaching, talking to business leaders to get to the heart of what they want to see and achieve in their organizations.
FOUNDER EXPOSES YOUNG PEOPLE TO WORLD OF TAP
Bril Barrett considers himself a taptivist. The founder of Making A Difference Dancing Rhythms and M.A.D.D. Rhythms Tap Academy spent his whole life wanting to be a professional tap dancer. “At a certain point, I decided that I wanted to try and help expose young people from the community like me to the art form, to offer it as a solution, or possibility for an option for them, as well,” he said.
DISCOVER CUSTOMER CARE CENTER HOSTS OPEN HOUSE
The Discover Customer Care Center, located at 8560 S. Cottage Grove, hosted an open house on Monday, June 7. People were able to tour the 25,000 square foot temporary space, which includes the call center, conference rooms, training center, cubby spaces and a kitchen.
CHICAGO’S BLACK CHURCH COMMUNITY MOURNS ONE OF THE GREATEST GOSPEL MUSIC DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS IN THE NATION
Bishop Larry D. Trotter-Senior Pastor of the Sweet Holy Spirit Church of Chicago- will be joined by 1000 Gospel Music Artists, Musicians, Chicago residents and fans of Gospel Music as Chicago Gospel Music Industry Icon James Lott will be laid to rest. Lott died on Saturday at Trinity Hospital after a battling an illness over the past few months
Mayor and Police Announce Summer Safety Strategy
Mayor Lori Lightfoot, along with Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown and other community stakeholders announced a new safety strategy for the summer.
WOMAN’S JOURNEY INSPIRES AND EMPOWERS OTHERS
Karli Butler is an acid attack survivor and inspirational speaker, who shares her journey and shows what resilience looks like. Butler was attacked twice in 2006. Once in March and again in May. She sustained third degree full thickness burns during the second attack. It would change the course of her life.
JONES LEADS PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST HOSPITAL’S PLANS
Thaddeus Jones, mayor of Calumet City, says that downsizing and the potential closing of St. Margaret Hospital would affect residents of his city.
RESIDENTS AND STAKEHOLDERS BEAUTIFY COMMUNITY
Greater Englewood Unity Day was the brainchild of Jane Carter-Hill, co-founder of Imagine Englewood If… Hill was devoted to having people connect, communicate and collaborate.
SOUTHLAND COLLEGE PREP CLASS OF 2021 ALL ACCEPTED INTO COLLEGE
All 138 seniors at Southland College Prep Charter High School have been accepted into college. To commemorate the accomplishment, the class hosted a virtual “All-In” Celebration.
ADOPTION ADVOCATE PENS ‘MY JOURNEY TO JOSHUA
Deborah Farmer always knew she wanted to foster a child and possibly one day adopt a child through foster care.
ARTIST TALKS ABOUT EMPOWERMENT THROUGH POETRY
Leslé Honoré is known for her poems about Meghan Markle, Vice President Kamala Harris and Serena Williams. The Blaxican artist, activist and author is a graduate of Xavier University in New Orleans and has read her work at Obama Foundation events as well as at the Silver Room Block Party.
Culinary apprenticeship program prepares students for a career in the hospitality industry
Fifteen students, some of whom have been laid off during the pandemic, began an eight-week culinary apprenticeship program where they will learn skills that will prepare them for a career in the hospitality industry.
ENTREPRENEURS TALK ABOUT ACCESS TO RECREATIONAL CANNABIS LICENSES
4-20 is known to many as Cannabis Cultural Day. On January 1, 2020, Illinois legalized recreational marijuana use. Since then, sales have netted more than $600 million. Since January 2021, marijuana sales have netted more than $100 million. Apriel Campbell is the founder of Ivy Care, LLC, a self-care beauty and wellness brand, and Ariel DeNey Rainey is CEO and founder of The Mary Jane Group.
STUDENTATHLETES TALK ABOUT PANDEMIC’S IMPACT ON SPORTS
When COVID-19 caused school buildings to close for in-person learning, student-athletes’ seasons were put in limbo. A new docuseries, “Champions Adjust,” from True Star Media, gives voice to students on how COVID-19 has affected their lives.
