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Chicago Defender Women of Excellence 2014 honorees
2014 Honorees: Keeana Barber, WDB Marketing Group Keiana Barrett, Chicago Public Schools Tracey V. Bell, Walgreens Donna Black-Miller, American Heart Association Sonya Blakey, Inspiration…
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NATIONAL NEWS
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced an agreement with the city of Dubuque, Iowa (pictured), that effectively settles allegations…
A transgender student at George Fox University, in Newburg, Ore., is requesting permission from the institution to move into the male dormitories after completing his…
WORLD NEWS
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius came under intense pressure Monday at his murder trial from the chief prosecutor, who dismissed his account of…
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A massive explosion ripped through a bus station during the morning rush hour in Nigeria’s capital, killing at least 71 people…
ENTERTAINMENT
Tiffney Cambridge recently reached out to Evelyn Lozada’s old life coach to help fix her life. Just days after filing a restraining order against on-again,…
Gabby Douglas is getting back into an olympic start of mind. According to reports, the two-timegold medalist is back in the gym. The young gymnastics…
POLITICS
WASHINGTON (AP) — As millions of Americans race to meet today’s tax deadline, their chances of getting audited are lower than they have been in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning as the White House seeks to move past the election-year political damage…
BUSINESS
Most successful professionals have, at one point in time, made a plan or list of goals that they would like to fulfill during their career…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. retail sales in March rose by the largest amount in 18 months, led by strong gains in sales of autos, furniture…
SPORTS
CHICAGO (AP) — There’s just one game remaining in the regular season and the NBA playoffs begin on Saturday. The Chicago Bulls still don’t know…
Some really big news for Alonzo Mourning who won his NBA title with Miami Heat. He’s not only being inducted into the NBA Hall of…
HEALTH
First the bad news: The percentage of Americans with diabetes has doubled since 1988, with nearly one in 10 adults now diagnosed with the blood-sugar…
You love your family (and yourself) and you want everybody to be healthy. Thankfully, there are many different things you can do to help them…
EDITORS PICKS
2014 Honorees: Keeana Barber, WDB Marketing Group Keiana Barrett, Chicago Public Schools Tracey V. Bell, Walgreens Donna Black-Miller, American Heart Association Sonya Blakey, Inspiration…
FEATURES
One doesn’t have their very own national holiday and 900 streets named after them unless they are truly deserving. Nor does Gallup name you the…
FAITH
Deitrick Haddon’s LXW wowed the audience as the opener of this year’s, “Celebration of Gospel”, and for those who wanted to see more, here’s…
In the book, Heaven Is Real,Christian pastor Todd Burpo writes that during the months after his emergency surgery in 2003, his son Colton began…
FOCUS
Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was a U.S. research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.[1] He was the first to…
President Barack Obama honored the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act Thursday, praising former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s work to fulfill the promise of…
CULTURE
When you’re a fresh face on the R&B scene with a different sound, a debut album and an unexplainable beef with another well-known artist, you…
Sometimes one of the not so great things about being a complete smartass on social media is that you get caught by the person you…
VIEWS
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell said Wednesday that gay athletes’ current fight for equality and acceptance reminds him of some…
South Side POV (Evan F. Moore): You can take someone out of the hood but you can’t take the hood out of them. Or so…
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