Celebrity Red Carpet Correspondent Covers Carolina Soul Music Awards 
Dessert Food Truck Owner Launches 2026 Scholarship Program 
Lead Singer on Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience National Tour 
Hollywood Star Helps Launch National Self-Defense Movement for Women and Girls 
Woman Helping Veterans Transition into High-Impact Careers 
African American Experience Fund announces 2013 Annual Awards Gala – “Celebrating Legacies”
WASHINGTON, DC - The African American Experience Fund (AAEF) of the National Park Foundation (NPF), will host their Annual Awards...
United Negro College Fund announces new NAACP Gateway to Leadership Internship Program
 Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- The Gateway to Leadership Program is a 10-week paid summer internship for undergraduate students attending Historically...
Sec’y of State Jesse White visits Stroger Hospital to encourage organ/tissue donation
 Joined by Commissioner Steele, a Kidney Recipient and Cook County Health System CEO  Illinois Secretary of State Jesse...
Why Aren’t You Making Apps?
Soap Box Rants By Pamela Bratcher-McMillan President, Chair & CEO, of PETAL et al. There is a market out there...
Action Now and KOCO will hold protest rally at Chicago Urban League Headquarters, say CUL President Andrea Zopp supports CPS school closings
The organizations  claim Zopp betrays civil rights mission of Chicago Urban League by closing schools  Members of the community...
Rehearsal Photos now available for the Chicago premiere of Old-Hollywood Satire By The Way, Meet Vera Stark by Pulitzer Prize Winner Lynn Nottage, Directed by Chuck Smith
 May 2013 film series "Dark Eyes: Visions of Black Women" film series parthership with Columbia College among the other...
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Judson and Joyce Green, Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma to present at Arts Alliance Illinois’ Inaugural Benefit Luncheon Friday, May 17
 Luncheon also honors former Ambassador Fay Hartog-Levin as “Citizen Advocate† CHICAGO, IL  – Arts Alliance Illinois will host...
State Board officials to testify before the Senate Appropriations for Elementary and Secondary Education Committee
 ISBE advocating for full General State Aid funding as required under Illinois law  SPRINGFIELD, IL– State Superintendent of...
Diverse Clergy Group delivers nearly 50,000 Petitions to Governor Quinn calling for sensible gun legislation
The Chicago Clergy Coalition, a diverse interfaith group of local pastors/faith leaders along with families victimized by gun violence, yesterday...
The Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression submits Document on Police Crimes to UNHRC
In December 2012, the Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression (CAARPR) submitted a document to the UN Human Rights...