Celebrity Red Carpet Correspondent Covers Carolina Soul Music Awards 
Dessert Food Truck Owner Launches 2026 Scholarship Program 
Lead Singer on Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience National Tour 
Hollywood Star Helps Launch National Self-Defense Movement for Women and Girls 
Woman Helping Veterans Transition into High-Impact Careers 
Beyond Sport launches United Airlines Chicago Impact Award in conjunction with 2010 Summit
 Call for entries open through August 9, 2010  Beyond Sport, the global initiative that promotes, develops and funds...
Chicago’s Puerto Rican Community to celebrate release of Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres
 Release re-energizes campaign to win release of remaining political prisoner, Oscar López Rivera.  (Distributed by the National Boricua Human...
Creative thinking turns into reality
By Juanita Bratcher  Several years ago, a writer aquaintance wrote a fictional novel about the first African-American being elected...
Hate Talk and Senseless Rhetoric: The “Dumbing-Down” of America
Just a Thought  By Juanita Bratcher  Wild allegations, senseless rhetoric, inflammatory remarks, misinformation, incendiary voices and hatemongering are...
Work-at-home scams arrive to take advantage of the unemployed
  (A Message from the Better Business Bureau)  Chicago, IL - Work-at-home scams rise and fall along with the economy....
Congressman Mark Kirk’s statement on U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan
Letters to the Editor                                                                                   With regard to Solicitor General (Elena) Kagan, I would support her nomination. Ms. Kagan appears to...
Illinois drivers are now required to come to a complete stop for pedestrians
Governor’s signature provides pedestrian safety in Illinois  Drivers in Illinois are now required to come to a complete stop...
“Drugs & Jail When all Else Fails” – The Psycho-Academic War Against Black Boys
 By Umar R. Abdullah-Johnson  (Distributed through BlackNews.com)  The professional nomenclature has now become household words. Children as...
Illinois AFL-CIO endorses Sec’y of State Jesse White for re-election
 Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has been endorsed by the Illinois AFL-CIO for re-election in 2010. "This is...
Financial Regulatory Reform a “victory for consumers”: Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan
Calling Financial Regulatory Reform legislation signed into law Wednesday by President Barack Obama a "victory for consumers," Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, in...