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 
Alabama’s First Black Woman-Founded College Expands 
Illinois awards nearly $75 million for school improvement
Federal funds to go toward 13 low-performing schools in six districts  Springfield, IL – The Illinois State Board of Education...
The Cornel West Theory releases new LP, July 19th
 Washington, DC-based band teams with Princeton Professor, Dr. Cornel West  The Cornel West theory: (bottom left) Rashad Dobbins,...
Weigh the pros and cons of tech buy-back offers: Better Business Bureau advises
Chicago, IL - Today's technology is constantly being updated with models showcasing newer, faster features. To keep up with the...
Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins calls on African Americans to step up and donate marrow
National awareness campaign highlights need for more bone marrow donors during July's African American Bone Marrow Awareness Month  Minneapolis,...
Newly elected African American Mayors bolster the war on unemployment
To Be Equal#26  By Marc H. Morial, President and CEO National Urban League  “The arc of the moral universe...
U.S. Senator Kirk to call for details of ‘Stealth Survey’ to spy on physicians
Circulates Letter to HHS Among Senate Colleagues  Washington, DC - In response to a New York Times Article entitled,...
Black migration changes the political landscape in many states
America's Wire By Nadra Kareem Nittle  Los Angeles, CA (BlackNews.com) -- African-Americans once were clustered so heavily in urban...
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Isabel Wilkerson to speak at Elmhurst College on July 28
 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Author of The Warmth of Other Suns to Discuss the Great Migration of African Americans from...
GOP Ploy: Blame black joblessness on President Obama
(New America Media) By Earl Ofari Hutchinson  SYNOPSIS: President Obama responsible for high black unemployment? That claim by GOP candidates...
Proposed Medicaid cuts put fragile Illinois economy, most vulnerable citizens at risk
June 29 Teleconference, New Report Finds Illinois Stands to Lose Up To $7.8 Billion in Business Activity and 61,220 Jobs...