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Knowles: Flossmoor resident advises businesses in the Southland

July 15, 2019 at 6:34 p.m.

Flossmoor resident Tasha Brown wants small businesses to thrive in the south suburbs. Brown heads the Illinois Small Business Development Center at the Women's Business Development Center/ South Suburbs in...

Knowles: Chicago Heights group awards scholarships, mentors black youth

July 1, 2019 at 6:52 p.m.

Christopher Collins, 17, wants to improve the environment. Collins, who will major in mechanical engineering at North Carolina A&T State University, said he wants to eventually design nonpolluting vehicles. Nehemiah...

Knowles: Blood drive in Lynwood offers chance to save lives

June 17, 2019 at 5:45 p.m.

Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs a blood transfusion. Cook County 6th District Commissioner Donna Miller provided that figure to promote the first Southland Blood Drive Thursday...

Steve Bluford, of South Holland, in front, and Samuel Lawrence, of Ford Heights, in rear, grill outside Dolton Park District's Early Learning Center at Real Men Cook event in 2017.

Knowles: Real Men Cook marks 30-year anniversary

June 3, 2019 at 9:16 p.m.

With Father's Day less than two weeks away, University Park resident Rael Jackson is among south suburban dads preparing to celebrate a milestone. Father's Day will mark the 30th anniversary...

Knowles: Kitchen incubator helps south suburban businesses cook up success

May 20, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

Fershawnda Green's new business is helping other startups. Green is founder of Poppin Plates, a two-month-old business that offers licensed commercial shared kitchen space in Park Forest that helps home-based...

Knowles: Southland resident fighting to reduce kidney disease among blacks

May 22, 2019 at 12:20 a.m.

Dr. Jaime Baylock is on a mission to combat kidney disease. Even though African Americans have been hard hit by the often deadly condition, the Frankfort resident is one of...

Knowles: GSU diversity chief targets graduation rates

April 23, 2019 at 10:12 p.m.

As a Brooklyn College student in the 1980s, concerns about racial unrest and inequities prompted Corey Williams, who is black, to join a fraternity that was predominantly white. He said...

Knowles: Hickory Hills man makes mentoring a priority

March 11, 2019 at 2:21 p.m.

Hickory Hills resident Paul Phillips wants young black males to be successful. That’s what prompted him to launch the Better Man than Me Foundation, a mentoring organization marking its eight-year...

Julian Brundidge of South Holland, met with other students Saturday to prepare to compete in the NAACP's annual Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics program. He was at Dunbar Vocational Career Academy in Chicago.

Knowles: Southland teens gear up for NAACP competition

May 21, 2019 at 11:59 p.m.

“In my perfect world, it will always be easy, but sometimes easy isn’t worth it cause all the hard things I’ve been through made me the young man I am...

Knowles: Southland eateries participate in black restaurant week

May 21, 2019 at 11:54 p.m.

As a teenager, Karen McClinton used to help her aunt, who prepared meals and sold them from what McClinton fondly characterizes as the first food truck in the Englewood neighborhood...

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