On May 5, 2019, an 18-year-old male was fatally shot in the head in the North Lawndale community on Roosevelt and Komensky Ave at approximately 4:53 a.m. Chicago police reported that the man was found in an alley with a gunshot wound to the head. The young man was declared dead at the scene. There […]
On April 30, 2019, students at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, in Flossmoor, Illinois a suburb of Chicago, took part in a walkout. The walkout all started after a social media post showing student in blackface, that took place on April 29. The social media post shows four Homewood-Flossmoor High School student in blackface, stopping at Mcdonald’s […]
Young Chicago Authors (YCA) is a creative writing program geared toward youth between the ages of 14 and 25. There are different divisions of the program throughout the week to accommodate everyone, no matter their race, religion, sex, or sexual preference. On Saturdays, YCA hosts two different segments of the program. The first is “Check […]