A few days after Barack Obama’s historic inauguration, the Revs. Joseph Lowery and C.T. Vivian, and actor Harry Belafonte spent time in Chicago, including visiting a South Side church. The trio engaged in a roundtable discussion at St. Sabina Church
As a child, he was often in the room when Carter G. Woodson organized what is now known as Black History Month. As the years progressed, he saw a segregated Chicago and participated in the fight to remedy it and other cities with a same plight. Now he sch
Larry Hawkins, Ed. D., was recognized nationally as an authority on the use of sports as an educational tool. In his role as former head coach for the Carver High School basketball team, he led the team to the state championship in 1963.
Hundreds of miles away from home and away from the issues that afforded them an opportunity to be in Washington, D.C., two Chicagoans starting new chapters in their own lives were on an expense-paid trip to witness the historic swearing-in of the nation&r
Sister Souljah is known as a Bronx native, an activist, a hip hop lyricist and a mentor, but readers may be more familiar with her as the author of best-selling novels The Coldest Winter Ever, No Disrespect and her latest read Midnight. She recently sat d
Dear Gwendolyn:Four years ago a man came into my office and I fell in love with him at first sight. We started talking and later he told me that it was love at first sight with him as well. Then after dating for about three months, he told me he was mar
The news is full of bad information about Black men. Every time you turn around there is a new statistic that points out just how bad things are for Black men. You would think that it is all bad news. But it isn't.
The 2nd Annual “Night with the Stars” gala was held Dec. 12 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago hotel to recognize the achievements made by former Chicago Housing Authority tenants.
