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Instructor Michelle Lipscomb, center, leads a fitness class as part of UCAN’s SheRo Program, Feb. 7, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

SheRo Program from social services agency UCAN Chicago helps heal women most at risk for violence

February 16, 2024 at 3:50 p.m.

Just off the lobby at the gated North Lawndale campus of the social service agency UCAN sits a room where women, mainly mothers, convene for hours sharing stories about their...

Juliana Zavala, senior manager of elementary sports for Chicago Public Schools, high-fives Morgan Ellis as she speaks with Simeon players and coach Erin Pruitt after a news conference announcing the sanctioning of girls flag football on Feb. 14, 2024, at Halas Hall in Lake Forest. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Girls flag football is officially a high school sport in Illinois: ‘This is just the beginning of greatness’

February 15, 2024 at 4:33 p.m.

IHSA's sanctioning of girls flag football comes a few months after the news that flag football will be played at the 2028 Olympics.

Camille Bacon, left, and Daria Harper came together to produce an online magazine centered in the Black diasporic experience. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Jupiter Magazine launch centers art criticism in a radical way

February 21, 2024 at 12:36 p.m.

At a time when the consolidation of journalism endeavors is producing a homogenized journalistic landscape given hedge fund/private equity firm ownership, local journalism outlets are growing with young people at...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, leader of Operation Breadbasket, left, goes over notes with St. Clare Booker, Breadbasket program director, on June 9, 1971, at 7941 S. Halsted St. in Chicago, as they plan their picket of all National Tea Stores.

Oral history project by Chicago Theological Seminary shows how it served as incubator for area’s civil rights leaders

January 31, 2024 at 11:59 a.m.

Project documents the trajectory of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and others who were involved with Operation Breadbasket.

A photograph titled "Milwaukee Eviction II" from Dec. 2015 by Philip Montgomery is displayed in the new exhibit "Evicted" at the National Public Housing Museum on Jan. 19, 2024.

National Public Housing Museum opens exhibit on eviction: ‘Housing insecurity is weighing heavy on so many of us’

January 31, 2024 at 12:04 p.m.

The museum's "Evicted" exhibit explores the struggles of low-income renters and ignites a call to address evictions locally and nationally.

Verlean Singletary opens the door to Da Book Joint, 330 E. 51st St., Jan. 20, 2024, in Chicago. Its housed in a shipping container in Boxville.

After nearly closing, Black bookstores Semicolon and Da Book Joint have been able to pivot and ‘stick it out’

January 26, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Times have been tough for Black-owned book stores. Right after the holiday season, Chicago institutions Semicolon Bookstore & Gallery and Da Book Joint both announced that they would be closing...

Nicole Ladd works in a lab at the Gordon Center for Integrative Science at the University of Chicago on Jan. 5, 2024.

To make science more approachable, ‘Curiosity’ series takes viewers behind the scenes of scientists’ lives

January 19, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.

Stepping inside Erin Adams' lab at the University of Chicago is a bit overstimulating. Adams' work centers on molecular immunology. As the Joseph Regenstein Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology...

"Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion and Survival" is a book by sociologist LaShawnDa Pittman, a Northwestern University alumnus, that explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren.

‘Grandmothering While Black’ takes a deep dive into how parents’ parents are coping with raising the next generation

January 15, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

LaShawnDa Pittman's book begins with a table of women's names — 74, to be exact — listing their first name, age, marital or dating status, and the number of children,...

Julia Perkins teaches a yoga class at her business, Studio Yogi, on East 71st Street on Dec. 13, 2023.

We Rise Together program building a rising tide of economic recovery in Black and Latinx communities

January 12, 2024 at 12:14 p.m.

As it approaches the halfway mark of its five-year plan, We Rise Together, an initiative of the Chicago Community Trust, is checking off its accomplishments while staying laser-focused on its...

Julia Perkins imparte una clase de yoga en su negocio, Studio Yogi, en East 71st Street en Chicago, el miércoles 13 de diciembre de 2023. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

El programa ‘We Rise Together’ crea una marea creciente de recuperación económica en las comunidades negra y latina

April 15, 2024 at 3:37 p.m.

A medida que se acerca el ecuador de su plan quinquenal, 'We Rise Together' (''Nos levantamos juntos'), una iniciativa de Chicago Community Trust, va comprobando sus logros al tiempo que...

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