A suspect is in custody according to Chicago Police involving the shooting death of nine-year-old Janari Ricks. Ricks was playing Friday evening in a...
Disappearing while black is not an issue confined to Chicago. It is a nationwide problem that garners limited attention. The FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database listed 424,066 missing children under 18 in 2018, the most recent year for which data is available. About 37 percent of those children are black, even though black children only make up about 14% of all children in the United States. The news media vastly underreports missing minorities.
Most entrepreneurs put their blood, sweat, and tears into starting and supporting their dream of business ownership. This task requires an exhaustive effort, and they do whatever it takes to stay in business. According to alltopstartups.com, “the location of a business can make or break a business. Location can also influence a business’s ability to market itself, the competition it faces from other businesses, the total cost of operation, taxes the business owner has to pay, and the regulations they must follow.”
On Thursday evening, at approximately 8:13 p.m., Chicago Police bike officers were alerted by a caller that a male was acting erratically in the 1800 block...
The Return of Kings
By Ken Hare
Chicago Defender Staff Writer
On February 6, 2016, the outlier group The Return of Kings, the pro-rape advocates that view...
*Sunday morning on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” things got extremely interesting between former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson. They got into the kind of back and forth that had the potential to go to blows if they were in the same space, however Giuliani was at a remote location. To say […]
