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 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 | 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...
by Forest Parks | Nov 26, 2015 | News
After two nights of protests in Chicago, that followed the release of the video showing the killing of an unarmed black teen by a police officer (shot 16 times), momentum and organisation is growing and now supporters are being urged for a bigger demonstration this...
by Forest Parks | Nov 25, 2015 | News, Politics News
17-year-old Laquan McDonald was brutally murdered by police and now finally the officer has been charged after a court issued and order for the dashcam video of his killing to be released. A small protest ad begun yesterday before the release of the video but just...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jun 8, 2014 | Blog, Culture
Every week end we get a murder report from Chicago, this week they killed forty-two more African Americans. One of the craziest ideas I heard was from Roland Martin Show. He recommended that Marshall Law be declared, and the government send in the troops. Chicago...
by Ghostndamachine | May 26, 2014 | Culture
An article was written a few weeks back concerning the difference between “affluenza” and “hood disease.” Since many had never heard the term hood disease everyone thought it was something disrespectful that white people had simply made up. Ironically, both are...
by Furious | May 24, 2013 | News
The Chicago school system, the nation’s third largest, is in big financial trouble, with a billion dollar deficit coming up, falling enrollment, and a recent massive teacher strike over a contract dispute. Now, MSNBC reports, after a heavily protested meeting...
