Walmart recently announced that it will implement enhanced poultry safety measures for suppliers designed to further protect customers against foodborne illnesses. The new guidelines are in addition to Walmart’s food safety program that requires poultry suppliers to achieve prevention-based certification against one of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) internationally recognized standards.
A cast member on VH1’s “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” has been ordered to spend 30 days at a drug rehabilitation center after prosecutors said he repeatedly failed cocaine and marijuana tests.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 31, 2014 1:59 p.m.
Dr. Maulana Karenga, Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach and Executive Director, African American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Ca. created the Kwanzaa celebration to reinforce the basic values of African culture, called the Nguzo Saba which in Swahili means the Seven Principles, with hope that the seven principles of the festivity would serve as the building blocks to reinforce and enhance African American communities and culture.
By: Lee Edwards - December 31, 2014 1:55 p.m.
The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), Illinois State Police (ISP) and more than 230 law enforcement agencies from across the state are working in concert to decrease vehicle related fatalities as year 2014 ends.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 31, 2014 1:51 p.m.
Elected officials, along with her church community and friends are mourning the death of Rev., Dr. Johnnie Coleman, who died Dec. 23 at age 94.
Referred to as the “First Lady of the New Thought Christian Community,” Dr. Coleman founded Christ Universal Temple, that first opened on 61st and Cottage Grove Ave. in Chicago in 1956, and today stands at 11901 S. Ashland Ave., as a progressive, new thought church. Rev. Coleman served as Senior Minister there for 50 years and founded the Universal Foundation for Better Living, an international organization of affiliated ‘new thought’ churches and study groups that embrace a metaphysical interpretation of the Bible with a focus on healing, meditation and positive thought.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 31, 2014 1:47 p.m.
At a time when protests calling for justice are occurring across the nation in response to high profile instances where African American men, that many feel were unjustly killed at the hands of police officers, followed by grand jury decisions not to indict them, longtime civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. will speak on the topic of “injustice” as part of his keynote address at the University of Chicago’s (U of C) 25th Annual, Martin Luther King Jr., celebration next month.
One lucky ComEd customer received a gift fit for a champion this holiday season. ComEd teamed up with WBBM radio to host the “Retire Your Old Fridge” contest, which awarded a ComEd customer for participating in its Smart Ideas® Fridge and Freezer Recycling program. Winner Katie Straka of Palatine received a personal visit from former Bears champions Otis Wilson and Richard Dent, who presented her with tickets to a Bears game.
By: Lee Edwards - December 31, 2014 1:09 p.m.
As 2014 comes to a close, it’s still time to purchase a health care plan under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or change your current health care plan during this year’s Open Enrollment process before the final deadline on Feb. 15, 2015. The Open Enrollment period for 2015 began on Nov. 15, 2014.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 31, 2014 1:05 p.m.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel withdrew his challenge as to the validity of signatures on ballot petitions belonging to challenger, Dr. Willie Wilson, halting the Chicago Board of Election’s examination of the documents on Christmas Eve, according to Wilson's attorney Frank Avila.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking America off a permanent war footing is proving harder than President Barack Obama may have suggested.
Do you have a fear of public speaking? If so, you certainly are not alone. Glossophobia or speech anxiety is very common. That is why the Chicagoland Speakers Network is helping area residents overcome their uneasiness with speaking publicly, during its Second Annual Public Speaking Symposium.
Bill Cosby’s wife rejected sex assault allegations against her husband of a half-century on last week, saying the man being accused by at least 15 women of drugging and having sex with them is “a man I do not know.”
In a statement issued Monday, Camille Cosby dismissed accusations that date back as far as the late 1960s.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released guidance today for K-12 schools that offer or want to offer single-sex classes.
In response to numerous inquiries about the legality of single-sex classes, OCR issued guidance that charts a path for schools on how they can provide boys-only or girls-only instruction while remaining in compliance with civil rights laws.
As many of us celebrate Christmas with gift giving, and bring in the New Year reflecting on good times, others are finding it hard to enjoy the Holidays, because they are trying to cope with the pain of losing a child to Chicago’s ongoing gun violence, such as Englewood mother, Tonya Burch.
By: Lee Edwards - December 24, 2014 4:30 p.m.
The historic Harriet Rees Mansion, 2110 S. Prairie Ave. in Chicago, a three-story, 762-ton, brick and limestone structure, was recently relocated one block north to 2017 S. Prairie Ave. in order to make way for the construction of the McCormick Place Event Center, a 10,000-seat event center, and a 1,200-room Marriot Marquis Headquarters hotel, both slated for completion by late 2016.
