Natalie Moore Honored At Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner
Journalist and National Public Radio correspondent Natalie Moore will be honored at one of the nation’s most prestigious literary functions next week. Moore will…
Black Obesity A Major Health Concern
I recently rode the bus for a week in downtown Chicago. I was face to face with Black Obesity. I saw Black women dressed…
Hugh Hefner, Marketing Genius
Hugh Hefner died at the ripe old age of 91. His body aged, but he didn’t. At best he became dated, but not old….
Dick Gregory was a Funny Dude
Dick Gregory was a funny dude. Sometimes his humor made you laugh, sometimes it made you cry, sometimes it just made you think. Gregory…
America’s Whiteness in Charlottesville
Is anyone surprised about what happened at the White Nationalists rally in Charlottesville, Virginia? I’m not. To me, and I suspect most of us,…
Wake Up, Black Community
There are two Chicagos, one Black and one White. There are two districts in the city – the White one north and the Black…
Q&A With Barbara Bates
Barbara Bates is a fashion designer. She is a native Chicagoan and her career started while she was working in an office and women…
PUSH Forum For Democratic Governor Hopefuls
The Rainbow/PUSH Convention just hosted a forum for potential candidates looking to become the Democratic governor of Illinois in 2018. It was an opportunity…
Pass Over’s Controversial Review
Pass Over is a play about two young African-American men on the corner talking jive about their lives. It is a riff on the…
The Sad Saga of Mr. Bill Cosby
It is hard to watch Bill Cosby, America’s Dad, stand trail for his sexual misdeeds. We know his claim to fame to be Dr….
A New High School In Englewood
Chicago’s public schools are in a constant dither. Public education seems to be a never-ending socio-economic problem in Chicago, though education is such a…
Pops
As we approach Father’s Day, I remember “POPS.” My friend Wayne Watson lost his father, Wade Hampton Watson, recently. Wayne believes his father was…