via GospelLyfe.com: After less than two years, Bishop Carlton Pearson, the controversial interim pastor of Christ Universal Temple, one of Chicago’s largest churches, has stepped down from the position. Bishop Pearson was once one of the nation’s most popular Pentecostal preachers, and took the helm of the church in 2009 amid a pile of controversy. […]
CHICAGO — This story would actually be pretty funny if it wasn’t so sad and racist.
Mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun lashed out at her opponents and Police Superintendent Jody Weis Wednesday, ripping on everything from Rahm Emanuel’s “buddy” Bart Stupak to morale within the Chicago Police Department.
(CHICAGO-Huffington Post) Reverend James Meeks, a Chicago reverend and candidate for mayor was discussing affirmative action on a Chicago radio station, and said that he believed “minority” contracts should go to African-Americans and not other minorities. The Huffington Post reports: “I think that the word ‘minority,’ from our standpoint, should mean African-American,” Meeks said, as […]
Chicago – Denzel Pittman, a man believed to be the boyfriend of the 17-year-old woman found fatally stabbed along with her mother and younger sister inside an apartment in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the Far South Side is now charged.
Last year Jennifer Hudson invited cameras into her world as she traveled to her hometown of Chicago and beyond to bring joy to others for the holidays. In spite of her own tragedy, the death of her mother, brother and nephew 2 years ago, she has a new outlook on life especially since the birth […]
Chicago (HuffPost)– As early as 10 a.m. Sunday, candidates and campaign workers filing petitions for the City of Chicago elections began lining up at 69 W. Washington, hoping to make it onto the ballot.
Bishop Arthur Brazier, pastor emeritus of Apostolic Church of God in the Woodlawn neighborhood of the South Side of Chicago has died at 89 according to Chicago Public Radio. Brazier worked with Martin Luther King and Saul Alinsky and fought against segregated schools and for affordable housing. President Barack Obama issued a statement, saying: Brazier […]
It’s laughable to watch political prognosticators on various TV shows as they weigh in on Rahm Emanuel’s chances of becoming the next Chicago mayor. If you trust any of them, you swear President Barack Obama’s outgoing chief of staff sees the position as a birthright that he is about to assume now that Richard M. […]
According to the New York Times, Rahm Emmanuel will be resigning his post as White House Chief Of Staff and announcing his run for Mayor of Chicago this Friday. President Obama will give his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, a send-off Friday as Mr. Emanuel officially announces his departure from the West Wing to run […]
