Francine Knowles – Page 11

Column: South Suburban College tutoring program trains volunteers to help target literacy deficit

July 12, 2022 at 4:57 p.m.

South Suburban College is working to boost volunteer tutor training sessions and basic reading and math skills of participants in its adult volunteer literacy tutoring program. The much-needed program has...

Column: Lynwood warns of safety risks, stiffer penalties for fireworks violators

June 27, 2022 at 2:52 p.m.

Ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, Lynwood officials are warning residents they will face stiffer penalties for use of consumer fireworks, which are illegal in Illinois and which village...

Column: Matteson restaurant perseveres amid COVID-19 challenges and inflation

June 13, 2022 at 1:42 p.m.

For more than five years, I've spotlighted several south suburban small-business owners in this column. With repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic still reverberating along with the spike in inflation, here...

Column: Soul Werk Cafe, a Black-owned mental health care provider in Richton Park, focuses on healing souls

May 30, 2022 at 6:30 a.m.

"You may feel stuck right now, not knowing how to address all the feelings that are coming up. You may be sifting through anger, pain, exhaustion, even fatigue; feeling a...

Column: Lack of resources and stigma are barriers to Black mental health care

May 16, 2022 at 5:21 p.m.

As a child growing up in the former Cabrini-Green public housing complex, Dr. Kamilah Banks-Word observed people in the neighborhood whose behavior was different; something was wrong. At the time,...

Family Christian Health Center in Harvey.

Column: CenteringPregnancy program in Harvey expands in effort to lower racial disparities in pre-natal care

May 2, 2022 at 4:16 p.m.

Empowering Black women with knowledge to help them avoid premature deliveries and pregnancy related complications is among the goals of an initiative at the Harvey-based Family Christian Health Center Maternal...

Column: Homewood resident’s family-owned electrical company marks 100 years

April 5, 2022 at 9:43 a.m.

It's a major milestone year for Homewood resident Kendra Dinkins and her family. Taylor Electric Company, where Dinkins is president and chief executive officer, is marking its 100th year in...

Column: $300,000 grant to help South Suburban College raise awareness of domestic violence/assault

March 21, 2022 at 3:15 p.m.

More than 26% of women and nearly 7% of men among undergraduate college students nationally experienced rape or sexual assault, according to a survey from the Association of American Universities...

Column: Businesses owned by women and minorities have opportunity with $1.2 trillion in federal infrastructure investment

March 9, 2022 at 11:48 a.m.

Cautiously hopeful but still concerned is how minority and women business advocates describe their perspectives on whether minority-owned and women-owned enterprises will equitably benefit from the $1.2 trillion federal Infrastructure...

Column: South suburban food pantries say spike in food prices has increased need

February 21, 2022 at 12:55 p.m.

The spike in food prices and overall inflation is keeping food insecurity well above pre-pandemic levels and forcing many people to seek help, say organizations combating hunger in the south...

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