by Forest Parks | Dec 2, 2015 | News
As people start to stand up to the seeming rise in Police Brutality, institutional racism and as movements like Black Lives Matter gain momentum there is an ugly counter. White Supremacists seem to be showing their faces more and more and have gained a lot of comfort...
by Forest Parks | Dec 1, 2015 | News
It’s just broke that at around 8am this morning the head of the Chicago Police Department Superintendent Garry McCarthy was called into the office by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and fired. Mayor Rahm Emanuel confirmed this in a press conference today, Tuesday 1st...
by Forest Parks | Dec 1, 2015 | Blog, News
Protesters took to the streets of Chicago on Saturday to disrupt the Holiday shopping weekend. Blocking entrances for a while to stores in Chicago’s famous North Michigan Avenue shopping area to raise concerns over the killing of a black teen by a white police...
by Forest Parks | Dec 1, 2015 | Business
There is certainly a market gap in some communities for hard to find African and Caribbean grocery such as smoked goat, melon seeds and gari and now one entrepreneur has set up an app to delivery straight to the doors of those in Chicago. The app, OjaExpress, came...
by Forest Parks | Dec 1, 2015 | News
Last week protests erupted after dashcam footage showed Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. The officer was charged with first-degree murder and taken into custody. Now, around a week later, he has been released on a...
by Forest Parks | Dec 1, 2015 | News
As it should be, applying for a Concealed Carry License in Chicago is quite a rigorous process. You need to take training, pay a host of fees, get through background checks. The law is solid about who can and can’t own. However, you would expect, that if you...
by Forest Parks | Dec 1, 2015 | History
Who on earth is Black Pete? Many traditions are rooted in a not so nice past but one tradition of the holidays in Holland is so clearly racist that it’s a wonder that it’s allowed to be celebrated on such a wide scale. Every year Saint Nicholas arrives to...
by Forest Parks | Nov 30, 2015 | Business
Have you ever heard of Tristian Walker? Well, the 31 year old seems to be serious. Cutting his teeth in Silicon Valley and becoming one of the few blacks in Tech the 31-year-old Stanford MBA graduate saw a missing gap in the market and forged ahead to solve a real...
by Forest Parks | Nov 30, 2015 | News, Politics News
The national movement for awareness and change over the treatment is gaining serious momentum as pressure for change is growing in Chicago with the protests related to the release over the video showing the cold blooded murder of black teen #LaquanMcDonald. Now Civil...
by Forest Parks | Nov 30, 2015 | Celebrities, News
Dwayned Wade is making a strong statement and laying down solid support for #justice by speaking up about #LaquanMcDonald. He took to Instagram to show his weekend gameday signature sneakers adorned with handwritten hashtags: #LaquanMcDonald #Justice #Chicago After...
