CSU’s 371st Commencement Features AG Raoul as Keynote Speaker, Honors Montes and Rhymefest

May 3, 2024

By: Site Editor

DeWitt Fleming, Jr. Dazzles in ‘A Wonderful World’ with Broadway in Chicago

October 23, 2023

By: Nicole Joseph

Gov. Pritzker Launches $2.5 Million Economic Empowerment Centers Program

October 15, 2023

By: Site Editor

Cook County Announces Preparedness for the Pretrial Fairness Act’s New Procedures

September 16, 2023

By: Staff Report

CTA Red Line Extension in Line For $1.973 Billion in Federal Funding

September 9, 2023

By: Site Editor

Black Women Leaders in Jacksonville Call for Change After Mass Shooting

August 29, 2023

By: Tacuma Roeback, Chicago Defender Managing Editor

Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson made a suggestion during the 1963 March on Washington − and it changed a good speech to a majestic sermon on an American dream

August 27, 2023

By: The Conversation

Mayor Johnson Introduces Chief Larry Snelling as CPD’s Top Cop

August 14, 2023

By: Tacuma Roeback, Chicago Defender Managing Editor

Two Chicagoans Produce Black and Latino Film Backed by Jamie Foxx

June 21, 2023

By: Tacuma Roeback, Chicago Defender Managing Editor

Reaction to bronze sculpture of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr. in Boston hasn’t been good – and that’s not bad for art that shatters conventions

March 28, 2023

By: The Conversation