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 
President Preckwinkle Announces Latest Round of Anti-Violence Grants
Funds will assist four organizations with community-based initiatives Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced the County will award...
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Justice to Immigrants, Families, and American Communities; Blocks 2014 Immigration Deferred Action Programs
Statement of Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center CHICAGO, IL — Heartland Alliance’s...
Kirk Secures Increased Aid For Israel and Foreign Assistance Programs To Advance U.S. Initiatives Abroad
Appropriations Committee Sends FY17 State and Foreign Ops Bill To Senate Floor WASHINGTON, D. C. - U.S. Senator...
Chicago Lawyers and the Code of Silence
View From The Ground <info@invisibleinstitute.com> Vol. 2, Issue 4: Record Resistance A REPRINT At Issue: City lawyers and the code...
President Preckwinkle Nominates Five for Posts on Health and Hospitals System’s Governing Board
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced five nominees to the governing board of the Cook County Health and Hospitals...
Kirk Statement on ISIS Suicide Terrorist Bombings at Airport in Turkey
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) issued the following statement after yesterday’s horrific suicide bombing at Istanbul Atatürk Airport that killed...
Award-Winning Black Organization Partners With Local Police Departments to Promote “Brains Before Bullets”
Orrin C. Hudson, founder of Be Someone, is partnering with the DeKalb County Police Dept to host a free youth...
Saving Community Newspapers in the Age of Facebook
By Denise Rolark-Barnes, Chairperson, NNPA and Benjamin F. Chavis President/CEO, NNPA) Denise Rolark-Barnes Ben Chavis Hundreds of newspapers have disappeared...
FBI’s New Top Ten Fugitive: Help Us Catch a Murderer
Shanika S. Minor is wanted for murdering a pregnant woman and her unborn child in Milwaukee on March 6, 2016....
New Book Helps Cash Strapped Entrepreneurs Start-Up on a Ramen Noodle Budget
Miami, FL (BlackNews.com) -- Following the success of her last 4 books, the queen of Ramen Noodle Startups and award-winning...