Bill Russell, the greatest basketball player in history, activist, and great man, died at 88 on Sunday. The NBA has been fortunate to have the greatest basketball players in the history display their talents on the hardwoods. Coming to the…
Pat Carroll, the actress best known as the iconic voice of Ursula from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” has died at the age of 95. Her daughter, Kerry Karsian, stated she died from pneumonia in her Cape Cod, Massachusetts home on…
August is a time to celebrate, acknowledge, and support Black-owned businesses in the United States. John William Templeton, president and executive editor of the scholarly publishing company, eAccess Corp, and engineering executive, Frederick E. Jordan, initiated National Black Business Month…
Summer break is almost over and schools are preparing for the return of students. Some are concerned about the lax virus-mitigation mandates with the COVID-19 subvariant, BA.5, being highly contagious. This year Illinois students will not be mandated to wear…
For the first time in nearly a decade, Christine Houston’s play, “Two Twenty Seven,” will come to life every weekend throughout August at Chicago’s ETA Creative Arts Foundation Theater. Everyone is invited into the playwright’s imagination while enjoying an afternoon…
One word, one all-consuming emotion which has meaning far beyond the four letters used to create a description of what is happening in my country, a country that once celebrated understanding and compassion. That word is ‘hate.’ Hate is not…
Most Americans are unlikely aware that “Big Oil” continues to receive tax subsidies. For decades, the most corrupt corporations in America have made fools of our people and our government to ensure profits in the hundreds of percentiles. The government,…
Is Shereé Whitfield looking for love in all the wrong places. She returned to the “Real Housewives of Atlanta (RHOA)” reality show this season to many fans delight. Shereé seemed to be on solid ground with ex-boyfriend Tyrone Gilliams. Her…
History-making “Star Trek” actress Nichelle Nichols died of natural causes on Saturday evening in Silver City, New Mexico. She was 89. Her son announced her death on Facebook, and a family friend confirmed when and where she passed away. Nichols portrayed…
Every night at least one of the late-night talk shows offers a joke about something which happened in the Sunshine State, Florida. Sometimes it seems that all the crazy people in America decide to move as far east as possible…