She “made winning an attitude” – Statement by President Obama on the Death of Pat Summitt
President Barack Obama: Nobody walked off a college basketball court victorious more times than Tennessee’s Pat Summitt. For four decades,...
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Marc H. Morial Statement on Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (Fisher II)
Diversity in Colleges and Universities Essential to Expanding Opportunity NEW YORK – In response to the US Supreme Court's...
Summer Food Service Programs at Risk Due to Lack of Spending Authority
ISBE needs General Assembly to pass an education budget in order to offer feeding programs this summer SPRINGFIELD, IL...
President Preckwinkle, Dr. Shannon Stress Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis
Issue call to action around American Medical Association's declaration Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Cook County Health &...
Illinois State Board of Education Announces Board Video-Conference Meeting for June 16
SPRINGFIELD, IL – The Illinois State Board of Education announced the following schedule for its regular business meeting via video-conference...
Experts Sound Alarm: Wall Street Banks Set to Shakedown Illinois for $870 Million Unless Springfield Acts Fast
Mayor Emanuel Paid Out Hundreds of Millions to Wall Street Banks on Swap Deals that Torpedoed Chicago and CPS budgets,...
Black Wealth Matters – 5 Financial Terms You Hear Often (But Probably Don’t Fully Understand)
By Randy Hughes, founder/ CEO of Counting Pennies Nationwide -- We see it every day... in movies, commercials, and the...
Illinois Department of Public Health Prepares for a Public Health Emergency
Strategic National Stockpile training exercise June 14-16, 2016 SPRINGFIELD, IL – Next week, the Illinois Department of Public...
Microsoft and HBCU Connect.com Host Successful Event in Charlotte, NC to Recruit Black Tech Talent
Columbus, OH (BlackNews.com) -- Microsoft, in partnership with popular online social network HBCU Connect, recently celebrated a successful recruiting/ networking...
First 2016 Human Case of West Nile Virus in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, DC – The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has confirmed the first human case of West Nile virus...
