A most impressive roster of Chicago’s “movers and shakers” have banned together to host a salute to a couple of women in educational who are at the top of their game – Cheryl Hyman, chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago,
"Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Manhunt for His Assassin" (Doubleday, 459 pages, $28.95), by Hampton Sides: Nonfiction doesn't have to be a rote regurgitation of established truths.
Percy L. Julian High School honor roll student Daniel Abankwa Jr. has been chosen as a 2010 recipient of the prestigious William Gates Millennium Scholarship.
From left, Alexander, Andre and Anthony Evans are the first set of triplets to be accepted to West Point's Summer Leaders Series for high school juniors. After the summer program, if the triplets are accepted into the prestigious military academy, ranked
JaMaya Austin, 15, of Lincoln Park High School, addresses the media about high childhood obesity rates at a press conference before a health and resource fair targeted to teens and their families held at the Southside YMCA on 63rd Street and Stony Island
Spencer Leak Jr., of the funeral home dynasty fame, has taken on the awesome task of chairing the 100 Black Men of Chicago’s 13th Annual Benefit Gala on May 1 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago Hotel.
Hakim Pinklyn is one of many success stories in our Orr Academy High School Community. He demonstrates the core beliefs of Orr Academy, which are Commitment, Compassion, Integrity and Reflection.
The Black McDonald's Operators of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana (BMOA), in partnership with Operation PUSH's Rainbow-PUSH Coalition, PUSH for Excellence and other sponsors, recently helped send more than 100 Chicago-area high school students on a rare
Dr. King dreamed of the day that African-Americans would enjoy a full measure of freedom; however, he knew that we would not enjoy a full measure of freedom until we gained economic empowerment.
