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 
Stop McConnell’s Radical Anti-Choice Bill: Sign The Petition
SIGN YOUR NAME: Stop McConnell’s anti-choice bill >> In May, Boehner passed a radical bill banning access to abortions nationwide....
Comptroller Munger: Office Committed to Ensuring Personnel Payments
Comptroller asks Court for order to compensate state employees CHICAGO, IL - Illinois Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger released the following...
Formerly Detained Chicagoans Join National Call to End Immigrant Detention
Immigrant families and supporters to rally in front of Chicago immigration building, joining dozens of groups around the country to...
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Google Host Diversity Tech Forum in LA
Rainbow PUSH Coalition, in Partnership With Google, Gathers Entertainment and Technology Incluencers for "Dream Makers, Risk Takers and Money Makers:...
President Obama Petitioned to Honor Ethiopian Hero
International Council Request President Obama to place wreath at historic gravesite on visit to Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (BlackNews.com) --...
Senator Hunter’s Nephews’ Funerals Set for Friday: Both victims of Gun Violence
By Chinta Strausberg Funeral services for Illinois State Senator Mattie Hunter’s (D-3rd) nephews, Willie Lee Hunter, 31, and his brother,...
Racist Attacks on Southern Black Churches – Outlaw the Racist Terrorist Groups!
From: Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression In the last fourteen days, eight Black churches have been burned down....
Rep. Flowers Calls on Rauner to Back her LaSalle Street Tax Bill
Says it’ll yield $10-$12 billion a year By Chinta Strausberg Illinois State Rep. Mary Flowers (D-31st) Saturday urged the governor...
Fix the Voting Rights Act Now: Sign The Petition
Sign the petition to Congress: “Thanks to the Supreme Court, the Voting Rights Act is weaker now than when it...
New Roseland Community Hospital CEO Testifies in Springfield: “Gunfire doesn’t recognize political boundaries”
On Wednesday, July 1, New Roseland Community Hospital CEO Tim Egan testified in front of the Illinois Senate Appropriations Committee...