Black History Month: Celebrating the innovators, teachers and legends from Chicago and beyond
CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.
A South Side gathering of Black intellectuals set the stage for Black History Month
Carter Woodson was a tireless promoter of Black culture who planted seeds for what became Black History Month a century ago ...
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Telling their own story: South Side bus tour delves into Chicago’s key role in America’s Black Muslim history
Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) Veronica Mwakasungura, a Ph.D. candidate at the Lutheran School of Theology ... been an important site as Black Muslims on the South Side deepened their ...
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Chicago is one step closer to adding a NCAA Division-I college football team
Chicago State hopes to be playing D-I college football in 2026. It's now officially seeking its first head coach.
With DEI Top of Mind, Black Judges Discuss Growing Up During Segregation, Efforts to Diversify Legal Industry
Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No ...
With DEI on the run, it's time to think about Black History Month with Ronald Reagan in mind
History is a bad place, often. To get an idea just how bad, let’s return to Reagan’s biography. Those of more tender ...
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Chicago high school students learn more about Martin Luther King ahead of holiday: 'It's important'
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Next Monday is also Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: a day to reflect on the contributions of the murdered civil rights leader. On Thursday, some kids at Whitney Young High School got ...
Black Judges Discuss Growing Up During Segregation, Efforts to Diversify the Profession
Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No ...
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Black firefighters and paramedics hold panel discussion for next generation in Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS ... Through the Heat: Black Voices in Firefighting and Paramedics," during Black History month. "You don't need a college degree for this — high school diploma — and you ...
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Court Theatre’s ‘A Raisin In The Sun’ Honors Lorraine Hansberry’s South Side Tale 60 Years After Her Death
The cast of South and West Side natives brings a fresh "heartbeat" to the Broadway play nearly 70 years after its debut.
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Before the revival of Old L.C. Anderson High School: A Black Austin K-12 Timeline
Post-1866: Schools opened in the Austin freedom colonies of Burditt's Prairie, Clarksville, Gregorytown, Kincheonville, Masontown, Robertson Hill, South Side ... city's first Black high school ...