Gunshots around HERE?

 So many dead and so many shot in Chicago since Friday- numbers vary but we're looking at 32 shot and 4 dead.
 Yet Im sure many of us have never heard a gunshot nor know a loved one lost to violence which begs a question: are a few Chicagoans making us all look bad?

Is  Chicago a Have-HaveNot city for Blacks too o r do we still have a middle class?
How safe is your hood?

Reading my #EbonyMagzine MY WAY in 1947 Chicago

Black Chicago History -Southern migrants at Union Station. 1920s

Southern migrants at Union Station. 1920s
#throwback
#cultureofblackchicago

So Fresh Saturdays: created by residents for residents

So Fresh Saturdays is back today at Hamilton Park - 513 W. 72nd St. - 4pm-9pm! Fun for all ages!! This event is created by residents for residents!!! If we want PEACE in our neighborhoods, so we must create it!!! ‪#‎IAMENGLEWOOD‬ ‪#‎PEACE‬ What are you doing to CREATE peace in your community?

LEGENDARY R&B GROUP LOW RIDER HEADLINES THE 3RD ANNUAL TASTE OF WVON

      Chicago’s Urban Talker continues its 50th Anniversary Celebration with a day of entertainment, food, and family activities at the 3rd Annual Taste of WVON.

Internationally acclaimed R&B band Low Rider will headline the 3rd Annual Taste of WVON, Saturday, July 27th beginning at 10am.  Legendary Soul Group Enchantment, and Gospel Recording Artist Kim Stratton are featured performers at this summer’s most highly anticipated neighborhood event.   The Taste of WVON is a daylong festival showcasing the best local and corporate businesses in the Chicagoland area.

 

The Taste of WVON will be held at Lorraine Dixon Park, 8701 South Dauphin Avenue in Chicago (two blocks east of Cottage Grove) from 10am to 8pm (CST).  The festival features over eighty merchant and food vendors, a farmers market, family activities, and a special Children’s Pavilion that includes clown performances, face painting, a petting zoo, crafts, and pony rides.  Additional live performances by Reggae band Raw Dawg, Comedian Reggie Reg, Yemi Marie, and Chicago’s First Lady of Blues – Nellie ‘Tiger’ Travis.  WVON personalities Matt McGill, Perri Small, Mark Wallace, Salim Muwakil, Kendall Moore, and the “Governor of Talk Radio” – Mr. Cliff Kelley will be on site to engage attendees, participate in event activities, and host a full day of live broadcast programming.

 

This event is free and open to the public.   The Taste of WVON is sponsored by The Illinois Lottery, Com Ed, Chicago White Sox, PNC Bank, Toyota on Western, and the Black McDonald Operators Association.  For artist interviews and additional press inquiries, please contact Angelique Westerfield at (p) 312.489.7636 or angelique@wvon.com.

 

AfroRhythmsandWine Series coming soon,,,,

Is Chicago ready for the return of the Supper Club?

El Grotto- 6415 s Cottage Grove.

 There is an elegant hole in the heart of Chicago's nightlife.

Not for decades has Chicago's Black community been able to dine in polished ambiance and elegance while seeing a top flight musical act or dance show.

For decades in clubs such as the Rhumboogie Cafe', partly owned by Joe Louis and located at 343 e 55th, patrons could see top flight acts such as Sarah Vaughn or Chicago's own Dinah Washington. Also playing there before was "The Dream Band" which included Charlie Parker and other heavyweights. The famous Club DeLisa hosted the greats, such as Dizzy, the Duke, Satchmo and a host of others.

There are some small clubs hosting jazz events these days but these are mostly weekly series events where jazz is sometimes "spun" and not performed! There is no modern R&B or hip hop based equivelants to these great clubs of yeateryear, with their dapper dress standards and be there to be seen status.

Today's young Black adults seem to prefer a club like or lounge like atmosphere for event heir most formal affairs- would they be interested in dinner and a show?
Or is it that the Supper Club has never been presented to them?

The older, more laid back Blacks in the 35 and up range appear as the most possible purveyors of the new Supper Clubs and to them as well as the Twentysomething Sophisticateds we ask a few questions.,..

Would such a club interest you now? Has the concert replaced the supper club for good? What would be good locations for such venues now?

Let us Live

#ChiTownUnity
#Peace
#LetusLive
#JusticeforTrayvon
#WeloveHadiya
Come join Pastor Corey Brooks- the Rooftop Pastor- and thousands of youth pastors, community leaders and others from across the city in a peaceful one mile march and sit in downtown
Named Let us Live after the Human Rights Act which states that every human being has the right to LIVE.

Assemble at the corner of Roosevelt and Michigan Ave where we will proceed north to the Tribune Tower for a sit in after the State of the Hood Address.

If you have a group who wants to participate, please call 312-813-5211

Deb Mell in as 33rd Alderman.- Is this yet another nail in the coffin of Rahm's image as reformer?

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His quote that it "would be unfair not to appoint her because of her last name" is ironically hilarious because for all intents and purposes she is being appointed for that very reason. What about a search for a authentically independent Hispanic candidate in the now mostly Hispanic 33rd? Is Daley, I mean Rahm, truly interested in moving the city forward or more so in moving hsi agenda forward utilizing the underlying machine?

Your thoughts?

Circa 1971. First album release for Chicago based legends Earth Wind and Fire

 In 1969, Maurice White, a former session drummer for Chess Records and former member of the Ramsey Lewis Trio, joined two friends in Chicago, Wade Flemons and Don Whitehead, as a songwriting team composing songs and commercials in the Chicago area. The three friends got a recording contract with Capitol; they called themselves the "Salty Peppers" and had a marginal hit in the Midwestern area called "La La Time".[11] The Salty Peppers' second single, "Uh Huh Yeah", did not fare as well, and Maurice moved from Chicago to Los Angeles. He then added to the band singer Sherry Scott[12] and percussionist Yackov Ben Israel, both from Chicago, and then asked his younger brother Verdine how he would feel about heading out to the West Coast. On June 6, 1970, Verdine left Chicago to join the band as their new bassist. Maurice began shopping demo tapes of the band, featuring Donny Hathaway, around to different record labels and the band was thus signed to Warner Bros. Records.[11][13] Formation and early years (1971–1973) The cover of 1972 album Last Days and Time Maurice's astrological sign, Sagittarius, has a primary elemental quality of Fire and seasonal qualities of Earth and Air q.v. (Sagittarius in the northern hemisphere occurs in the fall, whose element is earth, and in the southern hemisphere, it is spring, whose element is air., the omission of Water, the fourth classical element). Based on this, he changed the band's name, to "Earth, Wind & Fire"

Chicago Blues the Father of American Rock and Roll

Maxwell Street is significant to the history of blues not just because music was performed there, but because music was created there. Beginning in the 1920s, Maxwell Street was the first stopping place for thousands of African-Americans newly arrived from the Mississippi Delta. There, the newcomers could hear established city musicians, and vice-versa. This continuous interaction over the course of several decades produced, in the period immediately following the Second World War, what is usually called Chicago Blues, but which could just as easily be called "The Maxwell Street Blues." Where in previous decades, recorded Delta Blues had been modified to fit the popular song styles of the day, on Maxwell Street it was left raw and simply amplified, both in volume and dramatic intensity. Musicians introduced amplification intensity at unheard of volumes too stand out above others. When recorded, the result became not only the dominant form of blues, but radically changed the emerging sound of rock and roll. The sound of bands like the Rolling Stones, Cream, Led Zeppelin and many others came about when English teenagers tried to duplicate the music of Maxwell Street Bluesmen.