By: Norman Parish - September 4, 2015 noon
Portions of a life-sized wooden slave ship, a jacket belonging to the late activist Fred Hampton, of the Black Panther Party, and video of President Barack Obama’s victory speech at Grant Park in downtown Chicago.
Teyonah Parris‘ character, Missy, undergoes an emotionallyTeyonah Parris‘ character, Missy, undergoes an emotionally charged transition in the second season of Starz’s “Survivor’s Remorse.” charged transition in the second season of Starz’s “Survivor’s Remorse.”
By: Evan F. Moore - September 2, 2015 4:52 p.m.
The heartbreaking and senseless violence that has been occurring in Chicago for decades has galvanized a group of former Chicago public league basketball players and has inspired them to put aside old school rivalries.
A judge overturned Terrence Howard’s divorce settlement with his second wife last Monday, finding the actor was coerced into signing the settlement by her threats to leak private details.
By: Norman Parish - September 2, 2015 4:08 p.m.
Racial issues were front and center in America in 1915. The controversial film, “The Birth of the Nation,” which portrayed all blacks as unintelligent and black men as sexually aggressive towards white women was released. And more than 50 African-Americans were lynched. Before the year was out, the Ku Klux Klan was reborn in Stone Mountain, Ga.
By: Evan F. Moore - September 2, 2015 3:58 p.m.
The Chicago (IL) Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is once again serving the community.
By: Norman Parish - September 2, 2015 3:07 p.m.
According to several polls conducted last week, Homewood Flossmoor H.S., in south suburban Ill., has the No. 1 high school football team in the area.
By: Evan F. Moore - September 2, 2015 2:55 p.m.
The University of Illinois fired head football coach Tim Beckman last week once it learned the details of an external review that showed that Beckman had forced some of his players to play through injuries.
By: Evan F. Moore - September 2, 2015 2:38 p.m.
When social media got wind of a predominately African-American female book club getting kicked off of a Napa Valley wine train for laughing too loud on August 22, others who have witnessed similar incidents, created the hashtag “#LaughingWhileBlack.”
By: Norman Parish - September 2, 2015 2:26 p.m.
Gun control advocates are renewing calls to limit access to firearms following the fatal shootings of two television journalists by a former colleague in a small Virginia town.
By: Evan F. Moore - September 2, 2015 2:21 p.m.
Last week, users of the social media website Twitter, commemorated the 60th anniversary of the murder of 14 year-old Emmitt Till. Till’s gruesome death is widely known as the incident that sparked the Civil Rights Movement.
Till was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he alledgedly whistled at a white woman who worked at a nearby store. The men who were related to the woman, later kidnapped Till. Those men brutally beat him, shot him and threw his body into a nearby river. The men who killed Till were acquitted of all wrongdoing.
By: Norman Parish - September 2, 2015 2:13 p.m.
Jeanette Taylor-Ramann was hospitalized last week while on a hunger strike in protest of plans for the Walter H. Dyett High School building in the Bronzeville neighborhood in Chicago.
By: Norman Parish - September 2, 2015 2:01 p.m.
Illinois State Sen. Napoleon Harris III (Dist-15th) is entering a growing field of candidates running for the state’s U.S. Senate seat.
By: Evan F. Moore - September 2, 2015 12:04 p.m.
Believe it or not, the 18th annual Chicago Football Classic (CFC) is more about getting kids interested in attending college, than it is about the battle on the gridiron. And according to CFC co-founder Larry Huggins, the event is designed to show youth that after high school, there’s an entire world out there where they can do a lot of good, and be very successful.
By: Norman Parish - August 27, 2015 11:18 a.m.
Illinois Secretary of State, Jesse White, the only African American official serving in a statewide office, says he plans to retire when his term ends in 2019.
