Chicago Park District Opens Summer Job Applications in Time for First of Four Teen Opportunity Fairs for Ages 13 & Up 
Former Mayor Calls for Accuracy in Water Crisis Narrative 
Marketplace With All Black-Owned Products Celebrates One Year in Business 
Two-Thirds of Black Consumers Pay More Attention to Ads That Reflect Their Culture 
Major George W. Ford Exhibit to Open During Black History Month at Temecula Valley Museum 
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...
Unemployment Numbers show that unemployment is still high – and higher for African Americans
By Benjamin Todd Jealous President and CEO of the NAACP Â Coming the day after the 45th anniversary of the...
Madigan, Attorneys General urge Congress to act on Immigration Reform
CHICAGO, IL — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan was joined by a bipartisan group of 34 other state and territorial...