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Author Dawn Turner wins $25,000 from Newberry Library as first recipient of new Pattis Family award
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Newberry Library has awarded Dawn Turner, author of “Three Girls from Bronzeville,” $25,000 as...
'Lost history becomes erased history': How one project aims to preserve Bronzeville's history
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPatricia Diggs and Kitonga Alexander created the Bronzeville Histories Institute to unearth Black...
MLK Day: ‘It’s so important to really delve into your history so you know where your roots are’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMartin Luther King Jr. slowly appeared as Jessica Patterson, a Chicago area artist, daubed paint on...
Meet Morgan Malone, a 29-year-old engaging Bronzeville with innovation and cultural economic...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoKeeping up with economic development wunderkind Morgan Malone is an exercise in pacing. She’s...
The Fall and Rise of Chicago’s Bronzeville
The Root via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs the first Black Americans migrated from southern states to the South Side of Chicago in 1916, the community and its people faced a bright and hopeful...
Bud Billiken Parade returns for 94th year, celebrating Black joy and history during back-to-school...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoChicago’s annual Bud Billiken parade brought joyful noise to Bronzeville Saturday afternoon as...
A New National Monument Honoring Emmett Till Just Opened — What to Know and How to Visit
Travel+Leisure via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe monument spans from Chicago to Mississippi. Scott Olson/Getty Images The Roberts Temple Church...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Remembering Mayor Harold Washington, 35 years after his death
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe city unexpectedly lost Harold Washington — its first Black mayor — 35 years ago today, Chicago....
Sculptor Richard Hunt, whose work made an outsize impression in Chicago and across the country, dies...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 months agoChicago sculptor Richard Hunt, whose abstract work includes the Ida B. Wells monument in Bronzeville...
Chicago Marathon: On a perfect race day, runners applaud addition of nonbinary division, say more...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn a sunny, breezy Sunday, more than 40,000 marathon runners dashed through the spectator-lined...
