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CHICAGO DEFENDER – Mayor Lightfoot addressed racism in an unprecedented open letter to the press.  As Black media owners with independent outlets, we share...

Violence takes sharp upward turn"Redrum. Redrum." The insidiously ominous murmerings of the dead children from the horror classic "The Stand" ring out loudly over...

The Chicago skyline. | Getty Images file photoThe Windy City isn’t providing the opportunities longtime Black residents need to succeed, so they’re leaving in...

The madman supposed by many to be a serial killer loose on Chicago's West Side may have struck again.  13-year-old Yasminda Mitchell has been added to...

WGN in Chicago reports another disappearance on the West Side of the city.  Victoria Garrett, 15, was last seen Monday in the 4000 block of West...

We apparently have not yet hit our racist-tirade quota for the day. A white man at a downtown Chicago cafe was captured on camera...

To reform or not to reform?  That do be de question.On February 28,  U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made his first major speech as...

“Because a body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by anybody.” – Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (Part...