The Ms. Lauryn Hill that showed up Sunday night seemed at war with her own perfectionism.

“I feel like if I ever get beat up and stuff by the police, who’s gonna be there for me””

The Lake is where the Black kings and queens from all sides of Chicago come to play.

Pastor John F. Hannah hopes to amplify the voices of Chicago youth this Saturday at his 7th annual “Prayer on the 9” outreach event in Chatham.

” Queen Bey and her HBCU band played “Hay” by Crucial Conflict.

“King died. The Panther leader died. Then businesses just start leaving, but you can’t leave. You don’t have the money to go anyplace else. Now you”ve got a depressed set of people.”

The TRiiBE is celebrating its first revolution around the sun in a major way – including a major fundraiser campaign and collaboration with the Chicago Reader.

Ever since director DGainz introduced the world to Chicago drill and its militia through YouTube in 2011, a new generation of Black kids saw music videos as their golden ticket.

Chef Skyler Dees is changing the way North Lawndale thinks about food and sustenance with his catering company.

“We think about Chicago in territories. We think about segregation. How many times do we sit down and talk about what we have in common”” explains Brenda Wakai-Torres, a teacher at Chicago High School for Arts. “We can put our differences aside and we can work together for something that we hope for.”