1. Don’t Do Depression Alone! This week the media world mourns the death of Karyn Washington, the 22-year-old writer of the popular motivational blog…
Nahshon Shelton didn’t want to pay the 22-cent tax on his $1.79 two-liter of Pepsi. So much so that he pulled a machine gun on the clerk inside. The Chicago Sun Times reports: So he allegedly pulled a blue-steel Intratec .22-caliber submachine gun out of his Gucci satchel inside the convenience store in the 4000 […]
Say what now?! Beyonce fans, Raquel Castellanos and Gabriella Davidson claim they went to the United Center in Chicago last December with general admission tickets and arrived early so they could get close to the stage. TMZ reports: They were at the front when the doors opened and there was a stampede. According to the […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Frankie Knuckles, a Grammy-winning Chicago disc jockey known as the “Godfather of House Music” who worked with artists including Michael Jackson and Diana Ross, has died at age 59. Knuckles died Monday in Chicago, the Cook County medical examiner said Tuesday. The medical examiner said a cause of death was not available. […]
*****UPDATE: Cheif Keef has been arrested! See why in the story below! Teen rapper Chief Keef cares nothing about his life. After recently getting out…
Love, peace and soul was the ‘Soul Train’ mantra and writer Nelson George has put all of the above into his new book, Soul Train: The Hippest Trip In America. George, a cultural critic who’s written over 15 books, says that he wrote the book to tell the accurate story of the show’s history as […]
If you ever had a desire to purchase property in the windy city – Chicago – now may be the best time to act on it. It’s not like you’ve got to have a lot of money because the city has plans to sell hundreds of properties off for the price of…well…a candy bar. As […]
CHICAGO (AP) — An operator of a Chicago public-transit train that jumped the tracks and scaled an escalator at one of nation’s busiest airports Monday may have dozed off, the president of a Chicago transit union said. The woman said she had worked extensive overtime recently and was “extremely tired” at the time of the […]
CHICAGO (AP) — An eight-car Chicago commuter train plowed across a platform and scaled an escalator at an underground station at one of the nation’s busiest airports early Monday, injuring 32 people on board, officials said. No one suffered life-threatening injuries in the Blue Line derailment at O’Hare International Airport, Chicago Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago […]
03/06/14- Comedian DeRay Davis dropped by the Tom Joyner Morning Show to discuss his TV show “Mind of a Man”, the break-in at his Chicago home and much more! For iPhone users:
9-year-old Asean Jackson has had it up to here with Chicago politicians. He lets them know in an impassioned speech to protest school closures in Chicago. The Chicago public school district shut down 49 schools most in minority districts last year, forcing children to go to unfamiliar schools in different neighborhoods. Although the idea was […]
In 2015, the city of Chicago may see a Black woman running things. Amara Enyia is a 30-year-old, municipal consultant and community organizer, who is…
