In 2015, the city of Chicago may see a Black woman running things. Amara Enyia is a 30-year-old, municipal consultant and community organizer, who is…
Since 1969, the deaths of prominent Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark have been shrouded in mystery with claims that the Panther leader and his fellow member, respectively,…
Overcrowding has long plagued Chicago’s Cook County jail and Commissioner Larry Suffredin, (D-13th), has proposed using taxpayer dollars to bail out low-level inmates who are…
So far this year, 232 people have been killed in Chicago, about 9 percent below the 10-year average for this time of year, the Daily…
Chicago native Jacqueline Kennedy-Harris (pictured center) walked out of prison in 1992 and vowed it would be her last stint behind bars. She was homeless…
Roger Ebert, America’s most well-known and influential film critic, died Thursday in Chicago at the age of 70. He had been in poor health over the past decade, battling cancers of the thyroid and salivary gland. Just two days ago Ebert announced that he was taking a “leave of presence” from his writing duties to focus […]
First Lady Michelle Obama (pictured standing) will be returning home next month to join Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel…
This morning it was brought to my attention that a Chicago mega-church pastor is launching an anti-gay marriage campaign. Apparently, Chicago doesn’t have more pressing…
Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old Chicago teen who was gunned down in South Side Chicago’s Harsh park on Tuesday afternoon after school, appeared in a 2008 anti-gang PSA when she was in the 6th grade. As we previously reported, Hadiya performed at the Inauguration of President Obama just over one week ago. The president has not […]
The out-of-control gun violence that has gripped Chicago hit especially close to home for President Obama. A 15-year-old girl who performed at some of President Obama’s recent inauguration events has been shot and killed in South Side Chicago. Hadiya Pendleton was shot in the back in a Chicago park after school Tuesday and died at […]
In a riveting and extremely moving moment at campaign headquarters in Chicago, the newly re-elected 44the President of the United States, Barack Obama, thanked staffers and volunteers for their extraordinary commitment to him and to changing the country. President Obama talked about his early days in Chicago as a community organizer, telling the rapt audience […]
It’s been no secret that rampant violence, specifically gang violence, is plaguing parts of the city of Chicago, so naturally, when speaking to Chi-Town’s own Common, EBONY.com wanted to know what the rapper made of the more than 400 homicides that have taken place in his hometown this year. EBONY: Speaking of setting an example, […]
