IGBO LANDING CONFERENCE CELEBRATES AFRICAN CONNECTIONS
by Zada Johnson, Ph.D. IGBO LANDING CONFERENCE CELEBRATES AFRICAN CONNECTIONS TO GULLAH/GEECHEE PEOPLE AND EXPLORES BIRTHPLACE OF CHICAGO DEFENDER FOUNDER ROBERT S. ABBOTT Photo Credit: Destiné Visuals During Memorial Day weekend, The Igbo [...]
Muhammad Ali with Marjorie Stewart Joyner at start of Bud Billiken parade
Muhammad Ali with Marjorie Stewart Joyner (pictured center) at start of Bud Billiken parade, September 23, 1969. Entrepreneur and philanthropist Marjorie Stewart Joyner fostered a close relationship with the Abbott-Sengstacke family and greatly [...]
King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones documentary debuts in the Chicago International Film Festival
by Myiti Sengstacke-Rice French filmmaker Harriet Marin Jones never had the chance to meet one of the most influential African Americans in the United States, her grandfather, Edward Jones, because she was born just a few [...]
THE BUD BILLIKEN SPIRIT: 91 YEARS AND COUNTING!
By Robyn Mitchell-Henry. Twenty-twenty has certainly delivered plenty of new experiences and most of them have caused us to grow and stretch and bend to extract the lessons presented. Learning to accept the changes and [...]
Emmett Till’s Death: Sixty-Five Years Later
Written by Mary L. Datcher IG @mdatcher On a hot and muggy night on August 28, 1955, Roy Bryant and his brother J.W. Milam decided to kidnap and mercilessly murdered a Black teenage boy in [...]
