Last year, N’DIGO featured Chicago author I’deyah Ricketts as our January 27, 2011 cover story. Just eight-years-old at the time, Ideyah’s love for writing, curating story ideas, and ultimately authoring them won her a feature as one of the youngest people to appear on CBS’s popular Someone You Should Know news segment. With the [...]

In the Hype Williams directed film Belly, the gritty drug fueled urban drama featured a scene in which the lead character (played by Rapper Nas) had a conversation with a twelve year old boy that would’ve led many to believe was someone at least 15 years his senior. “Shorty was twelve going on twenty,” the [...]

The voice never leaves you if they’re that good. The songs become the background to the personality, a bonus, if you will, to an on-air experience. That was urban radio back in the day at its most pinnacle moments. And when music historian and personality Marcus Chapman was on the come-up. The location: Chicago. The [...]

Local author Lowell Thompson’s new book, African Americans in Chicago, is a pictorial history that boasts more than 200 vintage images, which provide readers with a unique opportunity to reconnect with the history that shaped our community. “The story of Black Chicago is so rich that few know it all,” says former advertising executive Thompson, [...]