Chicago’s Big Shoulders Fund nonprofit and Brother Rice High School’s Mount Sion Program are honorees for South Side Irish ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A second person has been charged in an accidental shooting that left a 12-year-old girl dead in the South ...

Lloyd Gaines, a valedictorian and aspiring lawyer, made history in the 1930s when he challenged the University of Missouri School of Law’s rejection due to segregation ...

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) also had a history of segregation it was trying to undo. Robert Baden-Powell founded the ...

CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

Chicago State hopes to be playing D-I college football in 2026. It's now officially seeking its first head coach.

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

History is a bad place, often. To get an idea just how bad, let’s return to Reagan’s biography. Those of more tender ...

Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No ...

Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No one can take that away because I lived it, and it's my story. And we can't ...

The team's stated goal is to “spread goodwill worldwide," and it has routinely contributed to basketball’s growth and society’s betterment.

Instead of signaling a turning of the corner in pursuit of a more perfect union, the elevation of a Black man into the White ...