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?

Let us Live Peace March today!!! 12 noon Downtown

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE



In lieu of the nation's uproar regarding the Trayvon Martin killing and the subsequent not guilty verdict for his killer, Project HOOD has organized a collaborative group of your pastors, youth leaders and community workers from across the city to come together for a peaceful one mile march in downtown Chicago today.

Clearly the country is divided as a result of the verdict and several issues have surfaced, from racism to a flawed legal system. The cry for justice is loud and being fueled by a bigger humanitarian issue.
It is the goal of Project HOOD to offer hop rto youth everywhere in memory of all of the Trayvon Martins across the American who will never get the same media attention.

The march has been named the Let Us Live march, taken from the premise in the Human Rights Act that every human being has a right to live. We are attempting to galvanize thousands of youth between the ages of 10-25 to participate,

The march will assemble at the corner of Roosevelt and Michigan , I twill then proceed north. ending at the Tribune building with a sit in and a State of the Hood Address.

Project  HOOD and every young person in this city needs your commitment to march with us and help tp get the word out by lending your voice and influence. I trust that your heart is as sensitive to this issue as the young people negatively impacted by the verdict. They need thr restorati9on and healonhand we can help empower them in a positive way by leading them peacefully in a march but radically by stirring up their human nature to help their fellow man.

Corey Brooks
Project HOOD

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.

 

AfriCOBRA at the DuSable OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION!!!

In Chicago 1968, a group of artists came together and began to define a uniquely black aesthetic in visual arts. They sought to make art that spoke directly to the needs, aspirations and experiences of black America, and that celebrated what was beautiful and heroic about black culture. The seed of what would become the AfriCOBRA collective was planted at the “Wall of Respect,” a mural on a Chicago building that depicted black heroes and leaders. The wall became both a meeting place and the community’s visual affirmation of African American cultural, intellectual and political heritage

TONIGHT!
Come join ‪#‎AfricobrainChicago‬ at the ‪#‎DuSableMuseum‬ for their Opening Night and Reception!!!!

Entertainment including ‪#‎DiscoPoetKhariB‬, ‪#‎LeeEngland‬ and poet ‪#‎AngelaJackson‬
Hear Professor Richard May and look for book signing by Wadsworth Jarrell!

Catered by Lenore's Kitchen

ADVICE about GENTLEMEN from a WOMAN

Some Black men in Chicago say...
"you cant be nice to some of these women"

To which we offer this advice from a sister who replied to one of our posts about Black men.

" Our Black Brothers are wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just stop turning from the fellas that speak, open doors, and ask you if you need help with something. (That's not thirsty) THAT'S WHAT REAL MEN DO!!!!!! "

Social service organizations; Help or Hindrance?

A bus card or two is cool, but in the end are these orgs merely crutches for their clients AS WELL AS the employees themselves? I base this question on the observation that many case workers, job specialists et al plainly get frustrated after seein hundreds of hardheaded Pookies and Nay Nays. They then proceed to throw their hands up and treat the clients indifferently, and more importantly, INEFFECTIVELY,,, Some often employ subcontracted "instructors" who often turn out to be nothing more than what i refer to as "1099 Pimps".... Is this another form of exploitation akin to the redneck dependency on prisons?

People helping people

Robin Reese 

We all need mentors. They come from all walks of life, backgrounds and genders. People helping people is how we become people. These two young ladies were very kind to me when I was a kid on the Southside of Chicago. I like to think they were instrumental in making me the man I am today.