A bus carrying activists, history aficionados and visitors from other cities weaved across Chicago’s South Side Sunday. Marking five years since President Barack Obama’s election, the one-time tour stopped at places that influenced the Commander-in-Chief’s life. RELATED: President Obama: ‘I Am Sorry’ About Cancelled Insurance Plans Organized by Forgotten Chicago, a group that documents Chicago’s […]
Cook County prosecutors announced Tuesday that Chicago Police Officer Gildardo Sierra (pictured), who was caught on video shooting an unarmed man 16 times, will not face criminal charges. Prosecutors determined that was Sierra justified in firing the victim, Flint Farmer, multiple times after reasonably mistaking Farmer’s cell phone for a gun, reports ThinkProgress. SEE ALSO:Record […]
Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s database. Cases involving African Americans also tend to receive less media coverage than missing Whites, with missing men of color getting even less attention. NewsOne has partnered with the […]
A  fire that started at a building in Wrigleyville Friday destroyed a number of business, DNAinfo Chicago reports. SEE ALSO: Marijuana Likely To Be Decriminalized In DC? The fire began at 3330 N. Clark Street — a building that features a bar, Roadhouse 66 Chicago, Thai Classic and hookah bar Samah. Fire Department spokesman Mark Nielsen claimed […]
Following the bloody mass shooting incident at the Cornell Square Park shooting in September, students at the Richard J. Daley Elementary Academy in Chicago are exhibiting a creative way to cope with violence. Seventh-grade students went through an eight-week art program to help “send a clear message to the larger community about the impact these […]
The city of Chicago honored ten-time Grammy award-winning R&B singer Chaka Khan with a street named in her honor in a ceremony on Saturday, July 27th. The influential artist participated in the unveiling of Chaka Khan Way with her mother Sandra Coleman, her sister Tammy McCray, as well as a host of other relatives from the Chicago […]
Rapper and Chicago native, Kanye West, has plans to give back to troubled youth in his hometown this summer with the upcoming launch of the “Got Bars” music writing and production program. In August, West’s nonprofit organization, Donda’s House — founded in honor of his late mother Dr. Donda West — and the ARK of […]
So far this year, 232 people have been killed in Chicago, about 9 percent below the 10-year average for this time of year, the Daily News reports. And the month of July has been particularly bloody: Over the July 4th weekend, 12 were murdered with more than 60 people injured, and just this past weekend, […]
Instead of taking a page from New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and slut-shaming teen girls into abstinence, the Chicago Department of Public Health has reframed the conversation to focus on potential teen fathers who — in keeping with the gender double standard in this patriarchal society — tend to dodge the stigma of early parenthood. […]
Five years ago, Brian James Moudry (pictured), a self-avowed White supremacist, burned down a Black family’s Chicago home. Now the man who lived only five houses away from the home of his victims has reportedly been sentenced to a maximum of 10 years behind bars for his crime, reports The Inquistr. SEE ALSO: 911 Operator’s Racist Facebook […]
Chicago native Jacqueline Kennedy-Harris (pictured center) walked out of prison in 1992 and vowed it would be her last stint behind bars. She was homeless and a former crack addict, but was determined to leave the demons that dragged her into that lifestyle behind. SEE ALSO: Miami Mayoral Candidate Victim Of Voodoo From then on, […]
First Lady Michelle Obama (pictured standing) will be returning home next month to join Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel for a gathering with community leaders focused on youth empowerment. Given the high rate of violence in the city and the deeply embedded gang culture, Mrs. Obama will be addressing […]
