“I want to do a play a year!” Brandy gushed to #TeamBeautiful. The 36-year-old singer/actress landed the lead role as “Roxie Hart” in the Broadway…
Chicago police routinely violate the constitutional rights of mostly African-Americans who have not committed any crime, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week, reports…
According to Yahoo Sports, Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau told the media that Rose would only play for about 20 minutes against Orlando on Wednesday. Chicago has five games left in its season, which wraps up one week from Wednesday. Rose then met with the media, via K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune: “I’ve been […]
The role Brandy will be playing! The name on everybody’s lips is gonna be….Brandy! The angelic voiced singer turned actress is set to make her…
Now this is the kind of story I love hearing. Chicago has its challenges like any other city, but these young men are well on their way. According to the Huffington Post, for a remarkable fourth consecutive year, all 167 seniors at Urban Prep Academies schools have been accepted at four-year colleges or universities this fall. […]
According to the Associated Press, Ernie Banks “Mr. Cub,” the Hall of Fame slugger and two-time MVP who always maintained his boundless enthusiasm for baseball despite decades of playing on miserable teams, died Friday night. He was 83. The Cubs announced Banks’ death, but did not provide a cause.Banks hit 512 home runs during his […]
According to Fox 28, a small, cargo plane crashed into a Chicago home, killing one pilot and narrowly missing an elderly couple inside Tuesday morning. The Federal Aviation Administration says the pilot changed his final destination to Ohio State University’s Don Scott Airport just before takeoff at Midway International Airport. ABC 6/FOX 28 reporter Mike McCarthy […]
On a recent segment of Keeping It Real with Rev. Al Sharpton, a nationally-syndicated radio show where I serve as a co-host, a troubling yet…
While many enjoyed celebrating Independence Day all across the nation, Chicago’s violence raged on with a vengeance that left 60 wounded and nine dead…
CHICAGO (AP) — With their brightly colored mats spread along a sidewalk, Tameka Lawson’s yoga students try to follow her instructions: concentrate on their breathing…
Pastor Corey Brooks joined Roland Martin Thursday on “NewsOne Now” to discuss his call to men and women of Chicago to combat violence in the…
CHICAGO (AP) – Jamil Boldian headed to college four years ago, arriving in small-town Ohio with a one-way Megabus ticket and $17.91 to his name. He’d been scared to leave Chicago, the only place he’d ever really known. He’d had a rough start in life, bouncing around in seven or eight elementary schools. He wasn’t always […]
