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Chicago residents can now apply to join the city’s Reparations Task Force, which will be tasked with developing the city’s first comprehensive reparations study. Although Mayor Brandon…
South Side resident Edward Harris says he remembers when 75th Street in Greater Grand Crossing was an epicenter for Black-owned commerce. “This was like a renaissance community…
By: Dawn Montgomery Every now and then, I am afforded the opportunity to witness history in the making. Experiencing this moment with someone you know personally…
In 1997, when Jacqueline Gamble was 13 years old, she was shot multiple times. As a gun violence survivor, the Roseland native has been voluntarily helping…
This week, a Chicago alderperson introduced a new proposal that, if approved, would give Chicago police the power to declare curfews ahead of mass gatherings of…
Akele Parnell is among the many Black owners of cannabis dispensaries who are frustrated by the lack of hemp regulation in Chicago and Illinois. He says…
The Government Alliance for Safe Communities (GASC), a collaboration among state, county and city leaders, announced today the launch of a new $20 million grant to…
By Stacy M. Brown BlackPressUSA.com Senior National Correspondent A sweeping new analysis of U.S. mortality data over the past 70 years reveals that Black children in…
On Friday, the Chicago City Council finance committee voted 12-15 to block a $1.25 million settlement for the family of Dexter Reed, a 26-year-old Black man…
Lifelong South Shore resident Natasha Dunn said she, like many Black Chicagoans, felt overlooked and disrespected when city officials looked to her neighborhood as an option…