Men and women in their late teens and early 20s are struggling, but some are especially hard hit. According to U.S. Census Bureau figures, the unemployment rate last year among high-school dropouts between ages 16 and 24 was 29%-up from 17.7% in 2000 and seven points higher than that of their p... Read more...
20 Year Old, Chicago Rapper VyrusTheGr8, one half of "TheGr8Ruler" has returned with a classic solo mixtape. The Team Free Me member is preparing the fans for his 2012 release of "V" with "The Pre-V Mixtape". With a unique style, and meaning behind his lyrics, he hopes to capture the attentio... Read more...
One in seven Chicagoans age 19 to 24 are dropouts and the costs to the city and state are staggering, according "High School Dropouts in Chicago and Illinois: The Growing Labor Market, Income, Civic, Social and Fiscal Costs of Dropping Out of High School," a report Northeastern University research... Read more...
What will America do with 36 million Black Americans now that there is no more cotton to pick? Even in states like Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, Black people are not involved in the planting, growing or harvesting of cotton. This is now done by White and Latino men and women who drive ma... Read more...
I'm not sure how much of this is true... but its entertaining. So I guess Barack is black...again? An Intimate Portrait of a Young Man Destined to Make History, Including a Never-Before-Seen “Lost” Interview Becoming Barack: Evolution of a Leader traces the early path of a man destined t... Read more...
The Chicago Bears cut Sam Hurdon Friday, two days after the receiver was arrested on federal drug-dealing charges. Hurd was arrested on Wednesday night at Morton's The Steakhouse in Rosemont, Ill., and the criminal complaint against him describes the receiver as regularly dealing large amoun... Read more...
The majority of school teachers recently laid off by the Chicago Board of Education are people of color, and hardest hit are African teachers in schools serving African American students, according to a new analysis released today by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). An analysis of Chicago Public S... Read more...
As school districts across the nation have scaled back instructional hours and moved to four-day weeks to balance their budgets, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is forging ahead with his push for a longer school day and year. And, though his plan is stirring controversy on many fronts, if implemented wel... Read more...
Chicago - A 17-year-old has been charged with three counts of first degree murder for the shooting deaths of a woman and two men while the three were in a car Saturday afternoon after picking up a cake at a renowned South Side bakery. Witnesses picked the 17-year-old Chicago boy out from an arr... Read more...