By Selina Pichardo With the school year kicking into gear, JPMorgan Chase wanted to stress the importance to parents and their children about learning money basics...
By Post Staff East Oakland’s Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church bore witness to an impactful event as Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price met and prayed...
By Godfrey Lee Twenty-two members of the Performing Stars youth and staff took a Civil Rights Social Justice trip to visit Montgomery and other parts of...
By Tamieka Atkins Sixty years ago, more than 200,000 people descended upon the National Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, making a...
By Charles Blackwell Special to The Post Last week, The Post published Part 1 of a commentary on the effects of rap/hip-hop music on youth. Part...
By Aldon Thomas Stiles California Black Media There is a growing body of evidence that disparities in medical treatment in the United States — compounded over...
By McKenzie Jackson California Black Media Five percent of the 225,231 Californians who lost their Medi-Cal coverage in June were African American. According to numbers from...
By Emil Guillermo On a week that an ex-president is arrested and arraigned for an historic fourth time, one must wonder what kind of leader the...
By Carmen Bogan On Aug. 31, OCCUR & San Francisco Foundation FAITHS A Model Built on Faith (AMBOF) will present: Strengthening Your Legal Guardrails 2023 –...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — Gun violence overwhelmingly hurts communities of color due to a lack of investment coupled with weak gun laws. To combat this issue, U.S....
CHICAGO DEFENDER — Located in the Woodlawn community, Red Clay Dance Company is Chicago’s premier professional Afro-contemporary dance company which tours nationally and internationally, sharing their...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — Dr. Horn is survived by his wife, two daughters, two stepchildren and two grandchildren, with one on the way. Funeral details are forthcoming....
CHICAGO DEFENDER — “This was a very complex, extensive case with painstaking police work every single moment until today, and it will continue after today,” Middlesex...
In honor of August being Black Business Month, the Chicago Defender is running a series of profiles on our city’s dynamic Black entrepreneurs. Imagine a world...
Few places are more appropriate to celebrate Hip-hop than the Chicago Hip Hop Heritage Museum. The minute you enter the doors of this two-story Bronzeville walk-up...
Vice President Kamala Harris returned to Chicago for her third official visit of the summer on Friday, this time to advocate for common sense gun laws...
Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th birthday all weekend, and you’re invited to join. This weekend is chock full of events and celebrations commemorating the genre’s golden...
One of Chicago’s most iconic parades is back to help kick off and celebrate the start of the 2023-2024 school year! On Saturday, August 12th, the...
Imagine it being July and you’re completely satisfied with the way your year has gone. Now, imagine it being July and you aren’t. Two things can...
This weekend is bittersweet. For the last time, we will have the Silver Room Sound System Block Party, the unapologetically Black celebration of love, music and...
State Rep. Kimberly du Buclet, D-Chicago, is applauding President Joe Biden’s announcement this week that new national monuments will honor the lives of Emmett Till and...
Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images News / Getty Images Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) criticized Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) on the House floor Thursday (July...
Photo: Hoover Police Department Carlee Russell has been charged in connection to her kidnapping hoax. On Friday (July 28), prosecutors in Hoover, Alabama charged the Alabama...
Roman Banks once aspired to be “a serious actor,” in the vein of Will Smith’s Robert Neville in the 2007 film “I Am Legend.” But those...
