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News anchor to host the Urban League ‘next’ series

Former Chicago news anchor Diann Burns will host the second season of the Emmy Award-winning TV series “ nextTV: Change You Can See,” starting April 11.

Apps to curb dangerous texting while driving have tough task

NEW YORK – Cars use lights, bells and buzzers to remind drivers to fasten their seat belts as they start their engines.

Black Press leader: Black newspapers will speak for themselves

National Newspapers Publishers Association publishers pose with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Vilsack stands in center between NNPA Chairman Danny Bakewell and NNPA Foundation Chair Dorothy Leavell. Photo/Roy Lewis

Women’s History Month 2010

Jacqueline Jackson, wife of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, says she has had three defining moments in her life.

ComED makes donation to Dawson Institute program

From left: Victoria Murphy Smith, Kennedy-King College executive director of business and auxiliary services; Tony Cameron, ComEd manager of Overhead Electrical Line Program Training; Phyllis Brooks, Ph.D., KKC; Bob Schacht, Dawson Technical Institute /EL

Saying ‘I do’: Black marriage campaign is growing

NEW YORK — For Kenny and Lynette Seymour, last weekend's black marriage gala was about celebrating their seven-year marriage. They got to meet other black couples while spending a romantic evening together.

Tilden student chefs cook lunch on Capitol Hill

Tilden students and their culinary instructors pose earlier this month on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., where their award-winning healthy school lunch was served to ask Congress for more money for better school food.

Dominick’s gives to Haiti relief

Front row, from left:Wynona Redmond, Dominick's, Don Keprta, President, Dominick's, Ald. Walter Burnett, Chair, Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus, Casey Marsh, Director, U.S. Fund for UNICEF, Francesca Maher, CEO, American Red Cross of Metro Chicago, Bob

Teesee’s Town

PocketBook Pals! – WVON’s news director Sharon McGhee has asked Kathy Chaney and Teesee to “star” in her production of The PocketBook Monologues on Thurs., 7 p.m., at Malcolm X College, 1900 W. Van Buren. Free admission!

Cook County honors all women veterans

In commemoration of Women's History Month, President Todd H. Stroger and the Cook County Board Tuesday paid tribute to military service women and women veterans including those who paid the ultimate price for their country.
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