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R&B/soul singer Syleena Johnson has been one of those artists you just can’t get enough of since she first burst onto the scene with her mature sound and her stories of love and life back in 2001. For the last decade, she’s been known to give us passionate records that tell the tales of all […]

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CHICAGO — Chicago will spend millions of dollars this year on a program that puts guardians on the streets of the city’s more dangerous areas to keep kids safe on their way to and from school. ALSO READ: Kim Kardashian Goes Wild The Root reports: The city’s Safe Passage works with an organization called No […]

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CHICAGO-Police are accused of dropping off a teenager, who appears to be a Latin King, in a rival gang’s area after a video was revealed. WBEZ Chicago reports: Who Shot Wyclef? In the footage, the doors of a Chicago Police Department vehicle are open and a young man in the back seat is shielding his […]

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Oprah called in to the show to tell Gayle how the massive snowstorm is impacting things in Chicago. Oprah told best friend Gayle King on the Gayle King Radio Show that the weather was ‘too dangerous’. RELATED STORIES: Oprah To Gayle „It Was Amazing To Find Out About My Half Sister!‰ Plus, Oprah shared her […]

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CHICAGO-During a debate with Patricia Van-Pelt Watkins, Chicago Mayoral candidate Carol Mosley told fellow candidate, Patricia Van-Pelt Watkins that the reason she wasn’t aware of Braun”s recent activity is because “You’ve been strung out on crack for years.” at a debate at a Chicago church. While Wakins has admitted to using drugs, she has denied […]

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CHICAGO — This story would actually be pretty funny if it wasn’t so sad and racist.

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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.

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(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 […]

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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.

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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.

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U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said Wednesday: “I have done nothing wrong,” even as a congressional panel has launched an inquiry into his efforts to secure President Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. With new updates and reports on the current ongoing controversy coming out everyday, it can be difficult to make clear of what’s actually […]

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Check this one out! You'll never believe who's accompanying Oprah Winfrey for her upcoming trip to Australia.