by Forest Parks | Dec 17, 2015 | News, Politics News
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was visiting Urban Prep Charter Academy in Englewood. He wasn’t given the warmest of welcomes and students showed protest leading to him making a sharp exit. Many of the well dressed students seemed uninterested and continued openly...
by Forest Parks | Dec 17, 2015 | Celebrities, News
Shaquille O’Neal is trying to give back to his native Newark by launching a new jobs program. The program aims to increase access to unions and construction jobs. Along with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka the project was launched on Tuesday. Help with union entrance exams...
by Forest Parks | Dec 17, 2015 | Culture
Chadwick Boseman shined in his role playing James Brown in “Get On Up” and now he is set to play another real life person as he steps into the shoes of highly respected Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall who was the first African American judge of...
by Forest Parks | Dec 17, 2015 | News
The trial of the first officer to be trialled in the murder of Freddie Gray ended in a hung jury yesterday (Wednesday 17th December) sparking worry for the prosecutors case against the other officers. After this mistrial it is unclear if officer William Porter will...
by Koba | Dec 16, 2015 | Positivity
A Chicago couple who experienced an unfathomable loss is turning the tragedy into triumph and helping other families. George and Suheily Davis married in November 2013 and a month later Suheily was pregnant. For eight and a half months, Suheily and George prepared to...
by Freddie Ra | Dec 16, 2015 | Politics News
Gregory Seal Livingston is Founder & CEO of the Coalition For A New Chicago and he had some choice words for the President of the United States Barack Obama about Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Livingston Said: “Brack Obama endorsed Rahm twice. He came here to...
by Forest Parks | Dec 16, 2015 | Culture
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made some suggestions during his oral arguments on Dec 9th that some top universities, such as the University of Texas, were too taxing for black students and that they might do better if they attended “a less-advanced school,...
by Forest Parks | Dec 16, 2015 | News
Donald Trump took to the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino on Monday night to hold yet another one of his ciruces. Of course protester, mostly from #BlackLivesMatter turned up and of course they were ejected from the event. This in itself isn’t such a big...
by Forest Parks | Dec 16, 2015 | News, Politics News
State Rep. Rick Brattin appears to be trying to stop athletes on football scholarships at the University of Missouri from protesting racism at the school. A proposal was filed on friday that would strip a college athletes scholarship if they refuse playing for reasons...
by Freddie Ra | Dec 16, 2015 | Celebrities, Positivity
There have been a flood of slave movies to hit the market recently depicting black people as weak, downtrodden and powerless or a biopic movies that focus on celebrities, entertainers and those that dance, laugh for a living, but this is something different. This...
