Dr. Jackson invented touch-tone phone, caller ID, call waiting and more
Dr. Shirley Jackson, an American physicist who received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in nuclear physics at MIT. In addition to her lengthy list of academic ...
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Nearly 600 turn out for MLK day of service
Hundreds of students and adults gathered at Joliet West High School on Monday to volunteer their time in remembrance of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Will County Medical Cannabis dispensary now open for business
Will County's first medical cannabis dispensary opened for business Monday in the Rock Creek industrial park in Joliet.
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King Nobel Secrets Revealed
The mystery surrounding who nominated civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize 50 years ago is cleared up in a new exhibit, “1964: Martin Luther King Jr.,” under way at the King National Historic ...
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Dear White People’ conveys complexity of contemporary race relations
“Dear White People, the minimum requirement of black friends to not seem racist has just been raised to two.
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She's An Icon: Top 10 Black Women Who Are Making Black History Today
We all (hopefully) know the stellar history of our fore-mothers like Sojourner Truth, Phyllis Wheatley, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hammer, Dorothy Height and Lena Horne. But there are black women making moves today who are likely to ...
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Post-Obama: The Future of the Black Body Politic After the Age of Obama
When then Senator Barack Obama turned into President Barack Obama after his historic 2008 election it had all the pageantry, zeal and aura of a religious revelation for many. It was something a long time coming -- a win after ...
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To Assimilate or Infiltrate: The War for (and Against) Being Undeniably Black
When I was in the 9th grade I wrote a cartoon strip where the heroine’s name was Daphne. A white male classmate of mine who enjoyed reading my stories immediately complained that I’d give the girl a weird “black” name. ...
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Voting Rights: Under Threat Then, Still Under Threat Now
Georgia resident Dorothy Cooper had been voting for more than 50 years with no problem, but in 2012 she almost couldn’t. It was all due to the new voter ID law Georgia had passed under the guise of fighting voter ...
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Why We Need Another Civil Rights Movement
As a child I would often watch old clips of the Civil Rights Movement and desperately wish I could have participated. The focus and eloquence of Dr. King inspired me. The courage of the children challenged me, and the unity ...
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Your "blackness" starts with YOU
Knowing and understanding what being black enough means to your self-preservation.
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