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 
Five Plays by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writers
Five plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning writers Subscribe to Steppenwolf's landmark 40th season and see five not-to-miss plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning...
2015 R&D STEM Learning Exchange Challenges Showcase Event
Students from 17 Illinois high schools to demonstrate solutions to real-world Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) problems CHICAGO, IL...
Experts Find Illinois Inflicting Needless Pain & Suffering on Sick Prisoners
From: Uptown People’s Law Center 60% of Non-Violent Deaths Show “Significant lapses in care,†Says Just-Released Study CHICAGO – The...
Immigrant Coalition Announces a Prayer Vigil and Immigration Advocacy Visit to Washington D.C.
Will hold a press conference today, 5/20/15 at the Federal Plaza, 230 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, at 10:30 a.m. CHICAGO,...
The Congressional Black Caucus Recognizes the 50th Anniversary of Head Start
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative G. K. Butterfield (NC-01), Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), issued the following statement celebrating...
Senator Collins leads Senate in declaring Malcolm X Day in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, IL – Illinois State Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (D-Chicago 16th) secured the Senate’s adoption of a resolution designating every...
Attorney General Applauds Senate Committee Passage of Bill to Allow Video, Audio Monitoring in Nursing Homes
SPRINGFIELD, IL – Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan applauded the Illinois Senate’s Public Health Committee after it passed her proposal...
Free Network Connects Blacks with Economic Resources
Bean, a new social network developed to create and allocate wealth within African American communities Free Network Connects U.S. Black...
Kirk-Led Veterans Affairs Bill Funds Veterans’ Care at Record Level
Makes Reforms to VA and Meets Veterans’ Care Needs Nationwide Protects VA Whistleblowers, Reforms VA Construction Funding and Enhances Military...
Funeral Services for Iconic Insurance Owner Alonzo Perkins Set for Thursday, 3 P.M.
Helped many black businessmen By Chinta Strausberg Funeral services for insurance/construction icon Alonzo Perkins who died last Friday, May 15,...