During the last two weeks, the Defender has provided glaring introspections of the violence our young folk are inflicting upon…

Iam a byproduct of the Black church. In fact, I don't know where I would have ended up without that…

The question was forthright and serious. It came from the mother of a 15- year-old boy, who asked, “What do…

When President George W. Bush released his $3.1 trillion fiscal year 2009 federal budget on February 4, it was a…

Iwas in Selma, Ala. recently for the commemoration of the 43rd anniversary of the historic 1965 Selma-to- Montgomery march that…

To borrow from her latest charttopping album, “If its hip hop if its bebop reggaeton of the metronome%uFFFD whatever it…

one of the dopest writers on the planet,” according to hip hop recording artist Common. Yusef, dubbed “a legend in…

Congratulations are in order to all of the Chicago Defender's 2008 “Women of Excellence” recipients. How deserving. Thank you for…

Black college baseball received a major boost recently when teams from Southern (Baton Rouge, La.) and Bethune-Cookman took part in…

Former Simeon high school star, Derrick Rose, now a standout at the University of Memphis, has been named as one…