Former Mayor Calls for Accuracy in Water Crisis Narrative 
Chicago Park District Opens Summer Job Applications in Time for First of Four Teen Opportunity Fairs for Ages 13 & Up 
Marketplace With All Black-Owned Products Celebrates One Year in Business 
Two-Thirds of Black Consumers Pay More Attention to Ads That Reflect Their Culture 
Major George W. Ford Exhibit to Open During Black History Month at Temecula Valley Museum 
Hip Hop Activist Chuck D Honored in Chicago
Crown Royal Black salutes Chuck D Chicago, IL (BlackNews.com) -- Crown Royal and the DuSable Museum of African American History...
Attorney General Madigan sues Standard & Poor's for enabling financial meltdown
Lawsuit: ‘Profits were running the show’ at leading credit ratings agency  CHICAGO, IL — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed...
State's Attorney Alvarez joins U.S. Senator Durbin in Fugitive Warrant Discussion
Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez recently joined U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and representatives from federal, state and local agencies...
The National Black Church Initiative strongly disagrees with the National College of Physicians
Cost Should Not be a Factor   Washington DC - The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a faith-based coalition...
School Prayer – The power of silence
By Attorney Roy Miller Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- We never asked little children how taking prayer out of school affected them....
Casting call for the role of "Little Inez" in Drury Lane Theatre's Hairspray
Drury Lane Theatre is seeking one African American girl—preferably 4' 6" or shorter—to play “Little Inez†in HAIRSPRAY.  Auditions will...
African American Film Foundation enhances diversity opening weekend at 2012 Sundance Film Festival
Moet & Chandon and the Blackhouse Foundation Present "Dinner With Bevy" In Honor of Actors Rashida Jones and Jesse Williams...
Nate Parker, Star of George Lucas' "Red Tails" becomes executive producer for the film "Resurrecting Love"
The film is a documentary about race, reconciliation, and the fight for human rights Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- Actor Nate Parker...
President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address
“No, we will not go back to an economy weakened by outsourcing, bad debt, and phony financial profits…†- President...
Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union Address
 Mitch Daniels: Obama has "held back" economy, made debt "radically worse"    (Full text of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels...