Event aims to empower Black Churches to be leaders in the eco-justice movement By La Risa Lynch The Black church has a long history of launching social movements from abolishing slavery to securing voting rights. The new social cause…
Taliaferro defeats 29th Ward Alderwoman Deborah Graham in heated runoff election by a slim margin
Mayoral candidate Chuy Garcia speaks at event in North Lawndale By La Risa Lynch Mayoral candidate Jesus “Chuy” Garcia supports increasing more restorative justice program within Chicago Public Schools as a way to “create good…
A version of this article ran in the Austin Weekly News. By La Risa Lynch Echoing Dr. Martin Luther King’s principal of economic justice, a group of North Lawndale residents held a Jan. 15th rally…
City Treasurer Summers floats idea of investing employee pension and retirement funds in Chicago’s neighborhoods. These investments makes good sense and would boost the local economy, create jobs and a stronger tax base from new businesses and entrepreneurs those investments would generate.
By La Risa Lynch It’s the last and considerably the biggest parcel of lakefront property to be developed on the city’s south side creating nearly 140,000 jobs and more than 13,000 housing units. But residents…
KKK-Kin Killin’ Kin is artist James Pate’s private, but now very public protest, against Black on Black violence in urban communities nationwide. The Ohio artist uses stark charcoal drawings to visually compare Black on Black violence to that of the terrorism perpetrated against Blacks during the Jim Crow era by the Ku Klux Klan.
Singer gets personal with latest CD Side Effects of You This article originally appeared in Austin Weekly News. By La Risa Lynch Singer Fantasia Barrino proves she can’t be boxed in. Her latest album Side…
This article initially ran under the “We Are Not Alone – No Estamos Solos” campaign and was first published at chicagoistheworld.org By La Risa Lynch Derrion Albert’s death made international headlines in 2009 when the…
Seek parity in immigration reform This article was originally published for Chicago Is The World By La Risa Lynch It’s lunch time and Ethiopian Diamond is jumping with customers even as construction crews hammer away…