BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Hoover was convicted of murder and running a criminal enterprise. Although some supporters describe him as a political prisoner, the legal and public...
Mike Flannery, FOX32 CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) – Spike Lee’s upcoming movie is named ‘Chiraq,’ but the director has other words to describe the City...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A 7-year-old boy who was one of seven people shot to death in Chicago over the holiday weekend was...
A new movie, second term for mayor and summer approaching has all eyes on Chicago’s politicians, police, people, and body count by Ashahed M. Muhammad Special...
Fran Spielman, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES (The Chicago Sun-Times)—Director Spike Lee was accused Friday of “stigmatizing” Chicago and “insulting” its residents by choosing the name...
CHICAGO (USA Today) — After recording the fewest number of murders in decades last year, violence is soaring: a 40% increase in shootings and 29%...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A few years ago, violence on Chicago streets thrust a recently elected mayor into the national spotlight as shootouts...
by Andrea V. Watson Special to the NNPA from the Chicago Defender CHICAGO – Homicides are down in Chicago this year and the statistics haven’t been...
(The Huffington Post) – A report to be presented to the United Nations next month alleges the Chicago Police Department has engaged in “ongoing, pervasive”...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Following a year when Chicago led the nation in homicides with more than 500, the city’s Police Department said...
[The Root] Now that Chicago has recorded the fewest number of murders since 1965, maybe the hyperbole that the city is the murder capital of America...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Bill De Blasio is garnering national attention for his landslide election in the New York City mayor’s race. De...
Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Citizen Founder of Armed Citizen Project Kyle ACP Coplen is preparing to establish a headquarters in Chicago and arm...
[ABC News] The city of Chicago has seen an almost 25 percent increase in homicides in 2012, leading to the highest homicide rate there in years....
By Ashahed M. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call ‘A life saving movement’ CHICAGO – Imagine sitting on your porch or apartment stoop...
