The phone bank has connected Chicagoland homeowners to nearly $23 million in property tax refunds and exemptions. A phone bank that is intended to commemorate Juneteenth by helping Black and Latino homeowners apply for property tax exemptions and avoid Chicago-area tax sales will kick off this week. According to ABC 7 Chicago, which is hosting…
Lori Harvey was recently spotted out in public for the first time since her breakup with “Creed” actor Michael B.Jordan which was announced earlier this month. According to DailyMail.com, the 25-year-old influencer was spotted out with a couple of friends in West Hollywood. Paparazzi asked the model, “How many guys have been in your DMs…
The latest such study also noted racial and ethnic disparities in death rates for pedestrians. Several studies, including one that was published this month, have found that African Americans and Hispanics who travel by “vulnerable” means such as biking and walking die at higher rates than previously known. The most recent study, “Disparities in Activity…
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States have been slow to do more than issue a proclamation or resolution. Some continue to commemorate the Confederacy. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the U.S., gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. But after an initial burst of action, the movement to have…
Sonyah Spencer works as a consultant to help finance The Urban Reader in Charlotte, North Carolina, a store focusing on African American books that she opened in part because of the Black Lives Matters movement. NEW YORK (AP) — Laura Romani, a Chicago-area resident with a background in education and library science, had been thinking…
It looks like Eddie Murphy‘s ex-wife Nicole Murphy has a new man after being involved in a cheating scandal. In 2019, the former model and reality star apologized for kissing director Antoine Fuqua, who has been married to actress Lela Rochon for 23 years. On Tuesday, June 14, The Shade Room captured images of Murphy…
The officer accused of killing 26-year-old Congolese immigrant Patrick Lyoya with a gunshot to the back of the head has been charged with second-degree murder, but the family hopes the murder charge is upgraded to first-degree. “Our family hasn’t been the same ever since, people have been traumatized,” said Jimmy Barwan. Barwan, 26, and Reginald…
Source: Kent Nishimura / Getty Payton Gendron, the white gunman who went on a racist rampage, killing 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, could be facing the death penalty. According to the US Justice Department, Gendron was charged with 10 counts of a hate crime resulting in death, three counts of hate crime…
Heisman Trophy winner and Republican candidate for US Senate Herschel Walker speaks at a rally on May 23, 2022, in Athens, Georgia. | Source: Megan Varner / Getty We all know that GOP candidate Herschel Walker is an accused perpetual liar. We know that he’s not a college graduate, a high school valedictorian, a former…
