Kathy Payton vacillates between ostensibly different worlds. “I live in a very gray area,” says the 51-year-old president and CEO of the Fifth ...

Last summer, I was told unequivocally that I should bleach my skin. It was a well-intentioned suggestion from a neighbor, a woman who ...

Over the past few months, race talk in America seems to be more frequent than—and just as frustrating as—ever. From the George Zimmerman ...

Since its inception in the early 1980s, Farley Keith “Jackmaster Funk” Williams has been a chart-topping star of House music, an amalgamation of disco, electronic/techno, hip ...

Jay Z and Beyoncé are not investing in a landmark Chicago theater. That’s the bad news. Rumors snowballed across the internet on Wednesday ...

Every city has that special someone who goes out of his or her way to organize anti-violence walks or ensure the local scouting ...

Erwin McEwen took the death of Ashton Wise almost as if it was his own son. And in some ways, the bond shared ...

I look upon my people today with a great sense of concern and fear. The violence has taken a toll on my Black ...

Finally, some good news on homicides in Chicago. After a bloody 2012 that drew international attention for soaring gun rates and rising gang ...