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 
President Preckwinkle Announces the Cook County Asian American Advisory Council
Cook County Board President Preckwinkle announced the formation of a new Asian American Advisory Council comprised of a diverse group...
Dayle Gillett, Senior Executive with The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc., to Receive Better Business Bureau Torchbearer Award
Dayle Gillett, Senior Executive with The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc., to Receive Better Business Bureau Torchbearer Award...
The Roy Cockrum Foundation Chooses Goodman Theatre as its First-Ever Grant Recipient
Grant fully supports Robert Falls and Seth Bockley’s World-Premiere Stage Adaptation of Chilean Novelist Roberto Bolano’s Masterpiece, 2666 CHICAGO, IL...
College Illinois ® 529 Prepaid Tuition Program Announces Draw Your Dreams Coloring Contest For Kids
Contest Offers a Chance to Win $529 CHICAGO, IL - College Illinois!®, the state’s only 529 prepaid tuition program, has...
Finance Committee Announces A Hearing on the Burge Torture Reparations Ordinance April 14, 2015
CHICAGO, IL — Chairman Ed Burke of Chicago’s Finance Committee announced the committee will hold a hearing on the Burge...
Press Call: African-American Leaders Call for Senate Vote on Loretta Lynch Nomination
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At 10:00 AM Tuesday (today), African-American leaders will host a press call to urge the Senate to...
$45 Million Lawsuit Filed Against Former Vice President of the NBA Players Association and Southern Film EB5 Regional Center
Atlanta, GA (BlackNews.com) -- Open Rivers Media Group, Inc. d/b/a Open Rivers Pictures (ORP), has filed a civil lawsuit 1:15-cv-00724-SCJ...
First Lady Michelle Obama to Travel to Japan and Cambodia March 18-22
Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto, Japan; Siem Reap, Cambodia On the heels of the President and First Lady’s launch of the Let...
Undocumented Immigrant in Need of a Kidney Transplant Seeks Sanctuary
CHICAGO, IL – Isidro Secundino has struggled for years to find a donor that would donate a kidney to save...
Chicago Police Torture & Reparations Interactive Pop-Up Art Exhibition & Teach-In at City Hall
CHICAGO, IL – On March 18th,  Project NIA, We Charge Genocide, and Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, survivors of police torture and their...