The Chicago Teachers Union is suing the city’s board of education in order to stop more than a thousand teachers from being laid off. In June, the board gave Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman the power to lay off teachers and increase class sizes to close a multi-million dollar budget hole. The lawsuit claims […]
Last week a 13-year old boy named Robert Freeman was shot 22 times while riding his bicycle in front of his home on Chicago’s far south side. Last night I almost became a statistic while taking my daily walk in another south-Chicago neighborhood not far from where Freeman was killed.
Lebron will be making one of the most important decisions of his career tonight but, we want to hear from you first! Where do you think King James New Throne will be? Poll Inside!
according to eurweb.com Eight people were killed and at least 44 others were shot across the city of Chicago Friday night into early Monday, including a baby girl who suffered a graze wound to the neck when gunfire erupted at a Near West Side barbecue, reports the Chicago Sun Times. [Scroll down to watch a […]
AM 1200 WCHB’s Mildred Gaddis took her show on the road to broadcast live from The Rainbow PUSH Coalition 39th Annual Conference. Mildred spoke with Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., founder and president of Rainbow PUSH Coalition as well as his distinguished panel of scholars, economists and civil rights leaders and Entrepreneurial fishermen/oyster-man based out […]
Lawmakers in Chicago have had enough of the violence and the killings in the city and are calling for the big guns. <!--more-->
The Destiny’s Child alumni talked to the host about everything from her role as Roxie Hart in Broadway’s ‘Chicago’ (she's made history!) to leaving Mathew Knowles’ Music World.
In 1928 Oscar DePriest became the first African American congressman elected to the House of Representatives from a northern state and a national symbol for racial pride. Read more on Oscar DePriest here.
By Margena A. Christian (courtesy of EbonyJet.com) Mrs. Eunice Johnson, producer and director of the Ebony Fashion Fair and secretary-treasurer of Johnson Publishing Company, died of renal failure at her home in Chicago. She was 93. New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will honor her work on January 11 as a philanthropist and fashion icon. […]
The Harvey's give back on Thanksgiving Day. <!--more-->
I'm from Chicago and I've be on Rush Street where this club is located, I can honestly say I have seen some of these types of situations before.... <!--more-->
