1969: Controversial University of Chicago sociology professor Marlene Dixon — who inspired a more than two-week sit-in by ...

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

The six tour guides of the Chicago ... talking about Black Muslim history in this country.” The first stop on the tour was Mosque Maryam and the adjacent Muhammad University of Islam grade ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - In a seminal work detailing Black health issues in the United ... Public Negro Health,” said Dr. Virginia Sheffield of University of Michigan’s Department of Internal Medicine.

(WGN) — A south suburban chef is celebrating her one-year anniversary of opening the restaurant where she started her culinary career as a part of Chicago’s Black Restaurant Week, which kicked ...

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share Now in its 10th year, Chicago Black Restaurant Week kicked off Sunday and runs until Feb. 23 with more than 40 Black-owned eateries offering special meals during ...

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have long been celebrated as places where Black culture is honored, and their student bodies reflect the diversity ...

Pianist Michelle Cann’s deep connection with the music of the late Florence Price led her to undertake research on other Black ... time in Chicago Jan. 24 under the auspices of University ...

We all know Ida B. Wells Drive downtown, named for the Chicago journalist, activist, and researcher in the late 19th and ...

Recognizing both the critical nature and complexity of this challenge, the University of Chicago is launching a distinctive new undergraduate major in climate and sustainable growth, with enrollment ...

the University changed its wording and said the sessions were open to everyone. It is understood that the 'addressing whiteness' course teaches white students that colonialism is 'their ...

The Art Institute of Chicago’s Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture ... museum and an art history professor at Northwestern University, said this exhibition — which runs through March ...