Vivica A. Fox Stars in and Produces the New LMN Thriller “The Wrong Housemaid” 
Three Women Fighting to Preserve an Important Slavery Exhibit in Philadelphia 
63-Year-Old Black Athlete/ Track Star is Running Faster Than She Did in Her 50s 
14-Year-Old Black CEO Launches Youth Entrepreneurship Summit and $10K Pitch Competition 
Founder Rejects $15K Offer for Breakthrough Patent-Pending Software 
Chicago Native Bill Rancic to Deliver Keynote Speech at City of Chicago Small Business Expo
City of Chicago hosts 4th 'Small Business Center on The Road' Expo Chicago Native Bill Rancic to Deliver Keynote Speech...
Direct from Death Row The Scottsboro Boys by Mark Stein, Music and Lyrics by Harley White, Jr.
September 16 - November 14, 2015 at the Raven Theatre Midwest premiere will open Raven's 2015-16 season CHICAGO, IL -...
August Jobs in Illinois Decrease by 900 While Unemployment Rate Declines to 5.6 Percent
Illinois Jobs Decline Three Consecutive Months                                                                      CHICAGO, IL – The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced that Illinois’...
Legendary Bluegrass Bash Slated for September 23-26 in Brown County
Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame & Uncle Pen Days Festival still going strong after more than four decades NASHVILLE,...
Brown/Byrd Foundation Annual Reminder – September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
PROSTATE CANCER AWARENESS MONTH New York, NY (BlackNews.com) – When Kevin Byrd and Blossom Brown were asked about the ultimate...
Englewood Jazz Festival Celebrates AACM at ’50’, Saturday, Sept. 19 in Hamilton Park
Corey Wilkes, Tammy McCann, Makaya McCraven, Young Masters Among Headliners Dr. Conrad Worrill, Tom Tom Washington, Kidd Jordan and...
Camille A. Brown & Dancers Explore Spectrum of Black Womanhood in Chicago Debut at the Dance Center Nov. 5-7
CHICAGO--The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago presents the Chicago debut of Camille A. Brown & Dancers performing their newest...
Munger: State to Begin Making Early Intervention Payments
CHICAGO, IL – Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger announced Wednesday that her office is setting up accounts and will immediately begin...
Kirk Joins Gillibrand, Schumer, Jon Stewart to Champion 9/11 Health Bill
170 Illinoisans Enrolled in World Trade Center Health Program Which Is in Need of Reauthorization WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator...
State Board Approves Threshold Scores on New PARCC Assessment
First batch of state-level preliminary results released for baseline year SPRINGFIELD, IL — The Illinois State Board of Education voted...