Health Experts in Sickle Cell Disease to Convene at 2026 Annual Convention 
Teens Launch Mobile Farm to Inspire the Next Generation of Agriculture Enthusiasts 
NAACP DuPage County Announces its 68th Annual Freedom Fund Gala to Honor Leaders and Changemakers 
Attorney General, Illinois Department of Labor Remind Hearthside Child Laborers to File Claims for Compensation 
Singer Joe to Headline 6th Annual Star 94.5 Heart & Soul Music Festival 
Senator Kirk Statement on Sanctions Relief and the State Department’s Report on Iranian-Backed Terrorism
CHICAGO, IL —U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of State reported today that...
Tell President Obama and the Department of Justice: This is Domestic Terrorism: Sign The Petition
Petition to President Obama and his Department of Justice: “Investigate and prosecute the Charleston attack as an act of domestic...
Summer Of Creativity Grants Available For Young Changemakers
Disney | ABC Television Group Supports 125 Youth-Led Service Projects with $500 Grants WASHINGTON, D.C. – As school lets out...
Clergy Pray for Peace and Healing for Families of Charleston Shooting Victims
Blame murders on twin evils, hate and violence By Chinta Strausberg Having known all of the Charleston, S.C., victims especially...
President Obama and Vice President Biden Statements on the Shooting in Charleston, South Carolina
President Barack Obama: Good afternoon, everybody. Â This morning, I spoke with, and Vice President Biden spoke with, Mayor Joe Riley...
U.S. Attorney General Lynch Delivers Remarks on the Shooting Incident in Charleston, South Carolina
Remarks as delivered Good morning. Before we begin today’s announcement, I want to take a moment to address the heartbreaking...
National Black Church Initiative Calls the Black Church Shooting in Charleston an Assassination
Victims Killed Because They Were Black WASHINGTON, DC - The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a faith-based coalition of 34,000...
A Massacre. A Hate Crime
From: Cornell Williams Brooks President & CEO, NAACP You've likely heard the news: Nine parishioners were murdered last night while...
CBC Chairman G. K. Butterfield Responds to Shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Representative G. K. Butterfield, Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), issued the following statement in...
Draft Biden 2016: Vice President Biden Could Announce Run by August
Vice President Joe Biden is seriously considering a run for president in 2016, according to two people close to him,...