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Contract supports Chicago’s commitment to ensure all city-owned buildings and operations are powered by 100% renewable energy by 2025
Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, in partnership with the Chicago Department of Assets, Information and Services (AIS), recently announced a new Request for Proposals (RFP) to procure a renewable energy supply contract for city-owned buildings.
A.P. Randolph Pullman Porter Museum Receives COVID-19 Relief From Phi Beta Sigma
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Great Lakes Region recently launched a COVID-19 relief effort on August 25 to aid the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter (NAPRPP) Museum. The Chicago institution is the only museum in the nation that honors Sigma Frat Brother A. Philip Randolph.
Children’s Online Learning Program ABCmouse to Pay $10 Million to Settle FTC Charges of Illegal Marketing and Billing Practices
Online children’s education company Age of Learning, Inc., which operates ABCmouse, will pay $10 million and change its negative option marketing and billing practices to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it made misrepresentations about cancellations and failed to disclose important information to consumers, leading tens of thousands of people to be renewed and charged for memberships without proper consent.
BLACK MAYORS IN SOUTHLAND CREATE CAUCUS
Black Mayors from 16 municipalities in the South Suburbs have come together to form the Southland Regional Mayoral Black Caucus of Cook County.
COMMUNITY ACTIVIST SEES THE VALUE OF RELATIONSHIPS IN COMBATTING VIOLENCE
Bamani Obadele has been involved with community organizing, public policy and advocacy for more than 20 years. Now, he is bringing his experience to Acclivus, Inc. as a community engagement director.
Morehouse Receives $9 Million National Science Foundation Grant to Research STEM Education at HBCUs
When Dr. Lycurgus L. Muldrow went to college, he was reading at a 7th-grade level. He’d dealt with health issues as a kid, and like many Black students, he found himself underserved by his school system, despite both of his parents serving as faculty members at historically Black colleges and universities.
Pamela McElvane Has Been Leading Courageous Conversations Inside Corporate America for Decades, But Now Her Diversity and Inclusion Work is in the Spotlight
Before there was President Barack Obama, before National Football League Star Quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem, before there was a Black Lives Matter protest, before CEOs voiced their conscience before their brands, Pamela McElvane was on the frontline of the diversity and inclusion movement advocating to increase the number of people of color working at all levels of corporate America, including securing them seats on the boards of the world’s largest companies.
BUSINESS OWNER GIVES BACK TO COMMUNITY, LOCALLY AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Walker said he learned he could use his resources to be a blessing to others when he saw a young lady stuck on the side of the road. He offered to tow her home and she started crying because she didn’t have a tree or toys for her kids for Christmas. He came back with toys and a tree so the family could celebrate Christmas. “Just the look on the kids’ faces was priceless. From then on, I said, ‘Okay, this is my calling,’” he said. “I do come from a giving background. My parents were givers,” he said.
Expiration date for valid driver’s licenses held by drivers 75 or older extended
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has announced that the expiration date for valid driver’s licenses held by Illinois drivers who are 75 years of age or older has been extended for a period of one year past the licenses’ current 2020 expiration date.
Work, Reimagined: ManpowerGroup Research Reveals What Workers Want Post COVID-19
Most workers believe the COVID-19 crisis marks the end of full-time work in the office and are looking for a hybrid model that blends work and home finds new research from ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN)
WOC Beats Bias with C.B.D Formula
Woman of color-owned CBD cosmetics firm Bliss Molecules has entered a joint venture with J&B Investments to scale globally amid a burgeoning “farm to face” beauty trend, despite systemic racism in male-dominated legal cannabis and CBD industries.
BLACK- OWNED, WOMAN- OWNED COFFEE COMPANY OPENS POP-UP
Chicago French Press began as an online coffee destination, offering an assortment of organic, freshly roasted coffee. On Saturday, Sept. 5, it became an in-store coffee experience with a pop-up, located in the Roosevelt Collection, 150 W. Roosevelt Road
Sleep and diabetes study receives $3M grant
Getting more sleep and establishing a regular sleep schedule is a common recommendation for maintaining and improving health, including for people with Type 1 diabetes. Short sleep patterns may affect how the body uses insulin, and irregular sleep schedules can affect glucose through changes in one’s circadian rhythm or biological clock. But, how best to improve sleep? And, how can you get quality sleep when you’re trying to manage your blood sugar along with life’s other demands?
LAWN SIGNS BRIGHTEN PEOPLE’S LIVES
Faith, hope, peace, love and joy are words that you can find on lawn signs across the South Suburbs as well as on the Southeast side of Chicago. The signs are the brainchild of Kai Haynes, a resident of Flossmoor. During the first weeks of the shutdown due to COVID-19, Haynes was looking out her window and it was as she described it, “blah.”
