Shannon Brown is chill. After being honored and awarded as one of the ‘Top 40 under 40 Game Changers” presented by WVON, The Talk of Chicago!along with Ariel Investments on August 2nd at the BlackStone Hotel, his 6’4 stature navigated through the crowd of Chicago influencers and fellow game changers smiling, shaking hands, participating [...]

Friday the 13th is socially associated with horror, random cases of events, and mysterious happenings. But for philanthropist Ken Patrick, that date will now stand symbolically as an act of bravery and putting words to action. “I had my first Prostate exam on Friday the 13th—a life altering experience,” he shared both proud and with [...]

  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 [...]

    How does one find beauty in the midst of the rough? The “rough”, equating to slum and oppressed conditions along with financial and racial hardships, can be enough to keep any individual and/or community down and out. Lost hope. To the naked and untrained eye, the “rough” could never be an image of [...]