Erick Johnson

Chicago Public Schools plans to layoff hundreds of teachers to address a projected $732 million deficit for next school year.

A bill that aims to boost compensation for wrongfully incarcerated individuals recently moved a step forward towards legislation in the Illinois Assembly.

WASHINGTON – Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and Representatives Julie Fedorchak (R-N.D.) and Troy Carter (D-La.) led a bipartisan, bicameral effort, along with 108 of their colleagues, in support of efforts by U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Jamieson Greer to utilize a Section 301 investigation into unfair and discriminatory trade practices by foreign sugar-producing countries. They call on USTR to take appropriate action to protect American sugarbeet and sugarcane farmers, processors, refiners, and factory workers from being undercut by discriminatory foreign trade practices.

A basketball court will be one of several features at the Obama Presidential Center in Library, which opens June 18 with an invitation only event.

Editor’s Note: This story originally was published in the Crusader on May 25, 2017

More than a year into her second term, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is denying more certificates of innocence to wrongfully convicted individuals than her predecessor Kim Foxx, according to an investigative report by Injustice Watch and Bolts, a non-profit that covers criminal justice and voting rights.

Chicago Police Officers respond to a disturbance near Parkway Gardens. (Photo by Sharon Fountain)

Centuries after Blacks were kidnapped from Africa and used to enrich wealthy landowners and countries across the globe, Pope Leo XIV on May 25 made a historic apology for the Catholic Church’s role in perpetuating slavery.

Direct from China Fireworks owner Mark Prusinski helps a customer after his store held its 50th annual demo show Memorial Day weekend.

The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center (Photo credit: The DuSable)