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Vol. XVII No. II
August 20—September 2, 2020
N A T I O N A L
773-595.5229
Community Business
August 1 launched the 15th annual National
Black Business Month, designed to create
economic self-sufficiency in the United States, Caribbean,
Latin America and Africa with an economic
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Garvey, Fuller and Evans
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Editorial Page 11
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How Foreigners out
do Black Businesses:
The federal EB-5
As many wonder how foreigners were able to start
(Continued on page 15)
Feature Culture
To Rid the killing,
Rid the N Word
Donnell Robinson
Feature Writer CSJ
FBG Duck (Weekly 26)
who was Murdered on
the Magnificent Mile of
Chicago’s Gold coast, in
videos of him and his
sector portraying the N
word, money, drugs, and
the killings in ninety
percent all of their songs. Upon viewing FBG Duck videos
and his generation of gangster rappers, ‘The N Word” carries
a profound direction to kill.
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Greegia Collyns
CSJ Staff Writer
August being National Black Business Month is a
grand announcement that the term 'Food Desert' is
predicted will not to be identified for residents of
Dearborn Homes in the future. The public housing
development, one of the last of Chicago Public
Housing (CHA) has been without a food store of any
sort since Don’s Food Mart closed in 1996.
Constructed about 1949, Dearborn Homes 660
housing units with an estimated population of 2,600
residents is located in the Bronzeville community at
27th to 30th Streets on S. State Street.
Carol Wallace, president of the Local Advisory
Council of Dearborn said, “This truly is the optimal
time to reintroduce a grocery Store for Dearborn
Homes. It goes along with the many improvements
that have been developed over the past years.” From
2009–2010, CHA renovated the buildings, adding
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Former residents of Dearborn Homes gathered with daughters of
the late Don Carter (photo being held) in recognition of his contribution
of Don’s Food Mart , leading support for a grocery store
for the development.
FB photo
Sen. Harris Biden’s V.P.
A Case for 2024
Gregory Thomas
CSJ Staff Writer
Calif. U.S. Senator Kamala Harris will be the first woman, the
first Asian American and the first Black Vice President, if elected
in November 2020 presidential election. Jumping into the future the
charismatic senator, former prosecutor and onetime 2020 primary
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Atlanta, Ga. Page 9
200 ARMED
BLACKS MARCH
AT KKK
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Donnell Robinson
CSJ Staff Writer
Like thieves in the night, hundreds used
social media to coordinate looting
throughout Chicago. The Great Michigan
Gold Coast was hit in a matter of minutes
as coordinated break-ins occurred
throughout the city in the early hours of
Monday morning. As the Chicago Police
was aware of the organized riot looting
that was about to occur, they will handicap
to prevent its desvastaking result.
More than 100 people were arrested
following a night of looting and unrest
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Page 2 August 20—September 2, 2020
Chicago Street Journal
Pritzker Estimates How
Long State Will Be Dealing
With Coronavirus Illinois Gov. J.B.
Pritzker said residents should prepare to continue dealing
with coronavirus for at least another six months as
he issued a plea for people to “keep social distance.”
“We don’t have to do this forever,” Pritzker said while
speaking in Quincy, Illinois, where he said positivity
rates are on the rise. “You’ve seen there’s progress on
vaccines and treatments and, you know, we’re not there
yet. We’re not there yet. And frankly, we’re not going
to be there until 2021. In my humble opinion, I’m not a
doctor, but that’s what my observation is, that we’re not
going to be able to take off the mask and go about everything
we were doing, you know, seven, eight months
ago, for a few more months, maybe six plus months. So
let’s all work together on this.”
How to Protect Yourself
From Corona virus Regular surgical
face masks are not effective. A more specialized
face mask known as N95 respirators are thicker than
surgical masks and are fitted to a person’s face to keep
out any viral particles.
Here’s what the CDC recommends: “It’s currently
flu and respiratory disease season and CDC recommends
getting a flu vaccine, taking everyday preventive
actions to help stop the spread of germs, and taking flu
antivirals if prescribed.”
The World Health Organization said protecting yourself
from coronavirus is similar to preventing other
types of infections: “Standard recommendations include
regular hand washing, covering mouth and nose when
coughing and sneezing, thoroughly cooking meat and
eggs,” the WHO said. “Avoid close contact with anyone
showing symptoms of respiratory illness such as
coughing and sneezing.”
The Illinois Department of Public Health reported to
“help prevent the spread of coronaviruses and protect
yourself from becoming infected”:
Wash your hands often with soap and water
Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with
unwashed hands
Avoid close contact with people who are sick
“There are currently no vaccines to protect against
human coronavirus infection,” the IDPH wrote online.
There also are no specific treatments. To help relieve
symptoms, the IDPH recommends:
Take pain and fever medications
Drink plenty of liquids
Stay home and rest
Former Gov.
James R.
Thompson,
Dies at 84
Longest-Serving Governor
in State History, Thompson
died shortly after 8 p.m.
Friday at the Shirley Ryan
Ability Lab in downtown
Chicago, his wife, Jayne
Thompson told the Chicago
Tribune. “The Thompson family is mourning the loss of
a wonderful husband, father and grandfather,” a statement
from the family read. “Jim Thompson’s love and
devotion to his family mirrored his lifelong dedication
to his beloved State of Illinois. His guiding principle in
public and private life was to help people and do what
he could so they could have an opportunity to succeed.
In that process, he achieved big things for Illinois that
matched the life he lived.”
Thompson, a Republican, served as governor for 14
years from 1976 to 1991. Prior to being elected, he was
appointed by President Nixon as U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of
Illinois. Before then, he worked in the
Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
Illinois Atty. General
Among Those Who Received
Fraudulent Unemployment
Benefits Card
Tens of thousands of Illinois residents have applied for
unemployment insurance benefits, but it’s the people
who haven’t that need to beware Illinois Attorney General
Kwame Raoul is urging residents throughout Illinois
to be on alert for signs of identity theft related to
unemployment insurance, including pre-paid debit
cards issued by KeyBank. Raoul’s office has received
dozens of complaints from people throughout the state
who learned that someone applied for unemployment
insurance benefits in their name. “People should be on
the lookout for a letter approving them for unemployment
benefits they never requested, because it likely
means that an identity thief applied for benefits using
their name and Social Security number,” Raoul said.
Lawsuit Seeks
$150M in ComEd
Refunds After
Bribery Scheme
A class-action lawsuit seeks $150
million in refunds from ComEd for
customer rate increases and other
benefits the utility received from Illinois
as part of an alleged bribery
scheme. The lawsuit was filed Monday
in Cook County by three individuals
and a Chicago-based company
that have been ComEd customers
since 2011.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wrote a letter to the
CEO of Commonwealth Edison Monday, calling the
utility company’s response to its involvement in a federal
bribery scandal “inadequate.” In a letter addressed
to CEO Joseph Dominguez, Lightfoot said she was
“deeply disturbed” by ComEd’s conduct in a bribery
scheme in which investigators say the company admitted
to arranging jobs and payments for associates of an
elected official. A court filing previously identified that
elected official as “Speaker of the Illinois House and
the longest serving member of the House of Represen-
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T
he amount Jordan will bank from The Last Dance. He’s
donating his entire share of the proceeds, which should
reach at least $3 million to $4 million, to charitable causes.
Jordan's brand donates $100 million to organizations fighting
racism against black people, will commit $100 million
(tax deductable) over the next 10 years to organizations assisting
black people (Black Lives Matter Causes Over the Next Decade) with
social justice and greater access to education. Have you notice most of the
demonstrators look more Caucasian looking lately? Now what if he used his
money to August National Black Business Month Black Business Matters.
M
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uring August National Black Business Month.
Food for the Thought: Thank you for continuing
to bring 95 percent of what you earn to our businesses.
Thanks for buying our Hilfigers, Karans, Nikes
and all other brands you so adore. Your super-rich
athletes, entertainers, intellectuals, and business persons
(both legal and illegal) exchange most of their
money for our car, jewelry, homes, and clothing. What
a windfall they have provided for us!
Jordan is worth $2.1 billion as of May 2020.
ichele Banks (the Witch/Which Doctor, also born
on Oct. 31) her associate Jerome Hughes, Founder
of Healthy Place Botanicals, (HPB), has just
signed for a penthouse office/training site at 5252 S. Cornell
in Hyde Park!
hicago Black million of East Lake Management, Elize Higginbottom
C his buddy Rev. Leon Finney Jr. of TWO stands accused of fraud, selfdealing
and mismanagement after his nonprofit, the Woodlawn Community
Development Corporation, filed for bankruptcy in
last October. Finney appeared to get irritated
when Higginbottom’s name came up and declined
to answer several questions about the
arrangement. According to the Chicago Sun
Times, which Higginbotton is an investor in the newspaper
and part owner of the Chicago Reader.
alking about the black media, the talk host chairs of
T WVON 1690-AM, continues to roll. Art Sims affectionately
know as “Chat Daddy” is gone and morning host Maze
Jackson resigned taking co-host Todd Stroger the former
Cook County Board president and producer Sonia Escobar
with him. Reports pressure from his bosses to ease off criticism
of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and to cut off any callers that
were critical of her, according Media writer Robert Feder,
Jackson said. “I could not accept the censorship, so I chose
to resign.” Jackson and Stroger are now on gospel station
WBGX 1570-AM, from 6 to 9 a.m. daily. Matt McGill and
Thomas who were co host with Jackson and could not fit
the ‘Lion Dean’ of Jackson. Melody Spann Cooper, head of
WVON, confirmed that Jackson and Stroger resigned over
editorial and content issues with management. For now
the morning show is Ernest B. Fenton, an attorney and
longtime contributor to the news/talk station.
rump supporter, Legendary former Chicago Bears
T coach Mike Ditka has revealed he doesn’t support
athletes kneeling during the national anthem. When asked what the
policy on kneeling would
be for his women’s football
X-League during an
interview with TMZ,
Ditka said athletes who
choose to kneel should
“get the hell out of the
country.” “That’s the way
I feel,” he said. However,
he did not say anything
about police kneeling on
someone neck.
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Chicago Street Journal August 20—September 2, 2020 Page 3
Mayor, Activists Reach Deal On
Proposed Obama Presidential Center
In a broad sense, the Obama Community
Benefit Agreement (CBA) Coalition has been
seeking for a requirement that jobs be set
aside for people in the communities around
the Obama Presidential Center and the protection
of housing for working families, those with
low incomes and existing home owners, along
with creating and supporting Black businesses
and strengthening neighborhood schools.
Black Lives Matter protestors joined with
the Obama CBA Coalition to erect a 'tent city'
on a City owned vacant lot in Woodlawn that
they say should be set aside for affordable
housing. It's part of an ongoing campaign to
stop displacement around the Obama Center.
Activists are joining forces to call on the Mayor
to divest from Chicago Police Department and
invest in Black Lives including affordable
housing in Black communities. Community
leaders, Alderman Sigcho-Lopez and La Spata,
followed with a march and rally, activists occupied
a lot all day and night to get their voices
h e a r d .
A deal reached between Mayor Lori Lightfoot
and Obama CBA that would require affordable
housing in Woodlawn near the proposed
Obama Presidential Center.
The coalition’s initial goal was to sign a
CBA with the Obama Foundation and
the University of Chicago as far back as 2017.
However, after both organizations refused to
engage in negotiations with community groups,
members turned their attention to City Hall.
In July Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor and Alderwoman
Leslie Hairston introduced the CBA
Housing Ordinance in City Council to stop
displacement around the Obama Center. The
Mayor’s proposed affordable housing ordinance
is a response to this ordinance. In a non
binding ballot referendum in February last year,
in precincts around the Obama Center, over
80% of voters supported the CBA Housing
O r d i n a n c e .
Members of the Obama CBA Coalition along
with Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor announced in
August plans to move forward with the CBA
Housing Ordinance which would set affordable
housing requirements for future developments
in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
According to the Obama CBA Coalition, the
CBA Housing Ordinance will set aside 52 vacant
lots for real affordable housing. It will also
create a rehab program to preserve real affordable.
The group said although they are happy
with the progress of the current ordinance, they
will continue to push for other amendments
including an amendment that will allow recently
displaced Woodlawn residents to be
given preference for newly built affordable
units on City land in Woodlawn.
A study by the University of Illinois, Chicago,
Nathalie P. Vorhees Center for Neighborhood
and Community Improvement, found that
some community members within a two-mile
radius of the OPC, an area where 62 percent of
The $500 million (estimated) Obama Presidential Center had it delays in parts due
to the Obama Community Benefit Agreement (CBA) Coalition; which on July 23, 2019
photo, activist Jose Reuena, center in back row, holds a placard during a news
conference and rally in Chicago for affordable housing. (AP Photo / Amr Alfiky)
residents are renters, may not be able to afford
rents and property taxes that are rising faster
than the rest of the market in Chicago.
The ordinance still needs City Council app
r o v a l .
The ordinance will also provide grant money to
help working class homeowners make repairs,
and provide grant money for working class
people to access homeownership.
Black Lives Matter Chicago, Ebonee Green
of the CBA Coalition says “In Woodlawn 9,900
people, over 40% of the current residents are at
high risk of displacement due to rising rents.
These are people who make less than $50,000
per year, people who work their butts off working
full time jobs in restaurants and homecare.
We are talking about essential workers and
workers who have been laid off, people directly
impacted by the two crises of coronavirus and
systemic racism..”
The CBA Coalition is demanding: 1) 75%
of housing built on City Land be truly affordable;
2) 2-3 bedroom affordable units; 3) $5M
for homeownership for working families; 4)
Preserve rentals for incomes under $50K/yr.;
and, 5) Cover Woodlawn + 20th Ward Washington
Park.
In addition Obama and the Obama Foundation
have not taken a position on the CBA
Housing Ordinance introduced in City Council
or the Mayor’s proposed Woodlawn Affordable
Housing Ordinance.
the Coalition pointed out Obama could have
taken a fallback position and said that he would
write out a memorandum of understanding with
the community and agree to certain principles,
goals and benchmarks. Why was it ok for the
City of Chicago to have an Olympic CBA
MOU, but it is not ok for the OPL members of
the Coalition ask.
The Obama Foundation announced on
July 27, 2018 that groundbreaking for
the Center would be delayed until sometime
in 2019, and the center
would not open in 2021, as was initially
planned.
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Sen. Harris Biden’s VP
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rival is also targeted to be President in 2024.
Joe Biden’s choice of Harris comes at a
time of racial reckoning in the country, plunging
one of the best-known women in politics
into a contest against President Donald
Trump, who has stoked racial divisions in the
White House and on the campaign trail.
Forty-eight years after Shirley Chisholm
declared “A New Era”, a Black woman is on
the national ticket. The late Chisholm ran for
president in 1972. No Black woman followed
her until Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun
32 years later.
Biden welcomed Harris to his team saying
“of all the contenders qualified to be vice
president, I need someone alongside me who
is smart, tough and ready to lead. Kamala is
that person.”
Biden 77, has hinted that he can be a one
term president. Giving his advanced age has
u n d e r s t a n d a b l y
prompted many to assign
huge importance to his
vice-presidential pick
and what it might signal
for the future of the Democratic
Party. Even if
Biden wins and serves
out his term, it’s not
clear that he’d run for a
second one. He has portrayed
himself as a transitional
candidate, describing
his campaign as
Barack Obama
a “bridge” to the next generation of Democratic
leaders, so it’s entirely possible that Harris,
who is 55, will be thought of as the future
Chicago Street Journal
of the party no
matter what.
B i d e n , i f
elected, would
be the oldest
president to hold
t h e o f f i c e ,
whereby, there
could easily be a
s c e n a r i o i n
which his VP
must finish his
term. As he stated
Harris is a
woman that is
qualified to be
president.
Harris, the
daughter of immigrants
from Jamaica
and India,
was the wire-towire
frontrunner
for Biden’s No. 2
job. Her experience
as a battletested
presidential
candidate, her
efforts leading major law enforcement offices
and her political track record of three election
wins in California helped her overcome a
crowded list of contenders.
“I have the great honor to announce that
I’ve picked Harris — a fearless fighter for the
little guy, and one of the country’s finest public
servants — as my running mate,” Biden
wrote in a tweet.
In her own tweet, Harris called joining
Joe Biden welcomed Karmala Harris as his
running as one of the contenders qualified to be
president.
...can lead to Harris
being the first woman
and African/Asian
American president of
Biden’s ticket
an honor.
Biden, she
wrote, “He can
u n i f y t h e
A m e r i c a n
people because
he spent
his life fighting
for us and
as president,
he'll build an
America that
lives up to our
ideals. I'm
honored to
join him as our
party's nominee
for Vice President,
and do
what it takes to
make him our
Commander-in
-Chief.”
Biden “nailed
the decision”
for running
mate in picking
Harris. Former
P r e s i d e n t
Barack Obama
said in a statement
(in which it’s believed he influenced
Bidens’ choice), calling the selection of a vice
presidential nominee “the first important decision
a president makes.” Obama added, Biden
“has underscored his own judgment and character.
Reality shows us that these attributes
are not optional in a president.”
Harris is a child of the Civil Rights Movement;
whose parents were active in the 1960s
marches. She initially launched her
Presidential Campagne for the 2020 Presidential
run but decided to withdraw early in
the campaign. As a former line prosecutor
who got her start in Alameda County — Harris
launched her first political run in 2003, for
San Francisco District Attorney. Harris ultimately
defeated the incumbent after accusing
him of running a dysfunctional office and not
addressing rising crime rates.
While Harris cultivated the Bay Area’s
wealthy and connected, she also campaigned
with an ironing board, passing out leaflets at
transit stops and blocking out her weekends to
appear at clubs and churches in the famously
left-wing city, where politics has been compared
to blood sport. As Harris celebrated her
election to the Senate, Trump’s victory in the
race for president loomed over her victory
speech — and ushered in
the next phase of her
career, which now has
her months away from
potentially moving into
a White House office
alongside Biden, and
possibility beyond to
president in 2024.
Harris was considered
a top-tier presidential
contender when she
launched her campaign
President Donald
last year before more than 22,000 people in
her hometown of Oakland.
The Trump campaign wasted no time
knocking her as “phony Kamala” and casting
Harris as a liberal Trojan horse taking advantage
of an aging candidate on the president’s
Twitter feed shortly after the news became
public. Also, the ad says that Harris attacked
Biden “for racist policies” during her White
House bid while “rushing to the radical left”.
Despite the attacks on her character,
Harris won praise from other contenders for
the vice presidency who did not get selected
by Biden.
“Senator Harris is a tenacious and trailblazing
leader who will make a great partner on
the campaign trail. I am confident that Biden-
Harris will prove to be a winning ticket,” said
Susan Rice, who was Obama’s national security
adviser and was among Harris’ competition
to be Biden’s running mate.
And former President Bill Clinton called
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Project H.O.O.D. Annual (Helping Others
Obtain Destiny) and Pastor Corey B. Brooks
will hold Seventh Annual Fundraising Event
on.
The Regional Transportation Authority
(RTA) is seeking public comment on its new
regional Framework for Transit Capital Improvements
through Friday, August
28. Prepared by RTA staff in partnership with
the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra, and
Pace, the draft framework is intended to improve
transparency in how public transit projects
are chosen and funded in northeastern
Illinois. Comments can be submitted
to Communications@RTAChicago.org.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors and Wells
Fargo CommunityWINS (Working/Investing
in Neighborhood Stabilization) grant program
will award $1 million to local nonprofits that
are addressing the housing affordability crisis,
including transitional housing, rentals, and
homeownership projects and programs. The
deadline is Friday, October 9.
August 26, 2020 AARP, Main Street
America, the United States Hispanic
Chamber (USHCC) and the
Association of Women Business
Centers, for a roundtable conversation
on the state of small businesses
in America. This conversation is focused
on the Midwest region of the
United States, which we have
broadly defined as including the
Great Lakes and Great Plains states.
All are welcome to attend, but the
speakers and the discussion will focus
on how businesses and communities
are responding to this crisis
l o c a l l y a n d r e g i o n a l l y .
During the event, you’ll hear from
local and regional organizations and
AARP state offices on the work they
are doing to support small businesses
and communities. We look
forward to hearing from you on the
challenges and issues your business
and community are facing.
Thursday, Aug. 27 ,The Neighborhood
Opportunity Fund finances projects
in commercial corridors across
Chicago's South,
Southwest and West
S i d e s . N o n -
profit organizations
are eligible for the
NOF grant, but they
must be engaged in a
retail or commercial
activity or providing a cultural asset
that is open to the public. DPD will
host two virtual informational sessions
to assist potential applicants in
prepping for the process. NOF Info
Register on Zoom Session
( S p a n i s h )
3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Aug 26
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that left 13 officers injured and
caused widespread damage
throughout downtown Chicago.
Looters rampaged through downtown
smashing storefronts, looting
property and creating chaos in
scenes reminiscent of the rioting
that occurred on May 31 after the
police killing of George Floyd.
Chicago Police Department
Superintendent David Brown said
it “..was not an organized protest”
but instead “an incident of pure
criminality” that began following
the shooting of a person by police
the previous day in the city’s
Englewood neighborhood. At one
point early Monday, shots were
fired at police and officers returned
fire.
Well before the images of widespread
looting hit TV, police say
social media was the tool used to
get crowds organized. Chicago
Police Superintendent David
Brown said the looting was a coordinated
attack planned on social
media.
“CPD became aware of several
social media posts encouraging
looting downtown,” Brown said.
“Once we got word of these
tforms, but it’s one tool of many.
“I think a question that Chicagoans
and people are left wondering
is, is ‘how did this happen
before police could stop it?’ The
short answer is there are so many
avenues of dissemination, what
criminals are trying to do is not be
discovered,” Schneider said.
Chicago police said they couldn’t
provide information of how
many officers are assigned to
monitoring social media.
Social media has been a tool for
police for years, not just in Chicago
but across the country. Facebook
received about 50,000 requests
for information from police
departments starting in July of last
year until December of 2019.
Sociology professor Christopher
Schneider is the author of
“Policing and Social Media: Social
Control in an Era of New
Media.”
“I was quite interested in learning
more about how the Chicago
police discovered these posts
online that indicated that there
was going to be some kind of
looting to direct them there, because
we know that this has been
a controversial subject in Chicago,”
Schneider said.
The practice is so controversial
that in 2018 the American Civil
Liberties Union stepped in to request
more information from Chicago
police about what they were
doing. The ACLU eventually
called on the police department to
end the use of “spying software”
to monitor social media activity.
Among their concerns is
whether some tracking software
that is being used had algorithms
that could be racially biased.
“They have since suggested
they are not really using those…
they haven’t really confirmed
what they are using now explicitly,”
Schneider said.
Schneider says it’s not unusual
for police departments to keep a
tight guard on how they’re tracking
criminal activity on social pla
The Chicago Police Department
Bureau of Detectives has established
a looting task force and is
seeking help from businesses
and community members. Anyone
who may have videos, photos or
information regarding the recent
looting incidents, please contact
the task force at: 312-744-8263, or
email them at: 630lootingtaskforce@chicagopolice.org.
You
can always submit an anonymous
tip at CPDtip.com
Cook County State’s Attorney
Kim Foxx faced criticism from
downtown business owners, the
police superintendent and her
political rivals over her approach
to prosecuting people arrested
during unrest in Chicago.
“The notion that people believe
that they are somehow empowered
because people weren’t
prosecuted for looting back in the
wake of the unrest beginning is
simply not true,” Foxx said. “It
does not serve us to have dishonest
blame games, when all our
hearts are breaking by what we’re
seeing.”
Foxx is up for re-election in
November, and her critics are
pouncing as she faces tough questions
over how she’s handled people
who are arrested during looting
in late May.
Questioned about her response
to the looting and rioting, Foxx
said police arrested 5,000 people
that weekend but only about 1,400
on looting-related charges. She
says those cases are being prosecuted.
Brown said looters have
“learned there are no consequences,”
a clear shot at Foxx
over her handling of cases.
“It’s important to recognize
why we drop cases, we may drop
a case because the facts and evidence
don’t substantiate a charge,
we may drop a case because a
witness key to the cases has decided
to no longer cooperate,”
Foxx said.
While calling the looting Sunday
night a “blatant display of
criminal behavior,” the prosecutor
defended her bail reforms which
are being criticized as too lenient.
Former Cook County Judge Pat
O’Brien is the Republican candidate
running against Foxx in November,
and blames Foxx for
what he describes as a growing
unease as violent crime rises that
the city is up for grabs.
O’Brien said and he says the
prosecutor isn’t fighting for the
people, and is making Chicago a
“To those who engaged in this: we
are coming for you,” Mayor Lori
Lightfoot said.
“free-for-all for people who want
to steal.”
“This is a time when Kim Foxx
has to be fired,” O Brien said.
“Our town is like Dodge City. On
a second term it will become like
Tombstone. This can’t go on.”
Foxx said the cases which were
dismissed were charged with curfew
violations, disorderliness for
not dispersing in time, instead of
anything directly connected with
looting.
Additionally, Foxx said the
pandemic, the economic free-fall
and the rise in violent crime have
made 2020 unlike any year we
have seen, and she says finding
solutions to the problems that
result in looting is a complex
process that can’t be dealt with in
simple sound bites.
social media posts, 400 officers
were dispatched to our downtown
area.”
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to Fight the Closure of Mercy Hospital:
The closure of Mercy Hospital
and Medical Center will disproportionately
affect nearly 50,000 patients,
many from economicallychallenged
communities on Chicago’s
South Side. State and local
elected officials, union leaders, and
community members are coming
together to combat the closure of one
of Chicago’s most prominent hospitals
to serve economically challenged
and underserved patients. The hospital’s
parent company, Michiganbased,
Trinity Health, has chosen to
close the hospital in addition to laying
off nearly 1,700 high and lowskilled
workers in one of the worst
recessions to hit the U.S.
Speakers are State Representative
Lamont J. Robinson, 5th District;
Alderman Sophia King, 4th Ward;
SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Indiana
President, Greg Kelley; several
Mercy employees; and Leonard
McGhee, President of the GAP
Neighborhood Association.
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after departing military service. The
Department of Veterans Affairs
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gram will proactively contact veterans,
by phone and email, several
times during the first year of their
transition to civilian life. The prog
r a m i s b a s e d
on research indicating that the
first year out of service is a high-risk
period for mental health challenges.
These statistics hold true for all veterans,
regardless of demographics.
Ford calls for Elected
Police Supertindent,
wants to give residents a say when it
comes to police leadership, and is
proposing that the Chicago Police
Superintendent role become an
elected position.
“Right now, some residents don’t
feel that the appointment of the top
cop gives them a voice in selecting
the best superintendent to head the
Chicago Police Department,” Ford
said.
Ford was
joined by
members of
the community
who
want to address
violence
with a
comprehensive
approach
that targets the illegal flow of
guns into the state, the illicit drug
market and efforts to improve needed
human services.
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Featured writer
by: Pat DeBonnett
There’s yet a great opportunity for growth
and development of the So. Michigan Avenue’s
business district that was, for many
years, as popular as the downtown Loop.
The recent fire of Gately’s Peoples Store
provides an opportunity for major investment
in preserving Roseland’s historically
rich business district to become a “Gateway
to the Future of a Greater South Michigan
Avenue”. This area can be transformed
anew into a vibrant business district, able to
recover and update its four south side wards
community led strategic plan for: Sustainable
Housing, Vibrant Health, Education
parity, and Economic Development in
“Greater Roseland Communities Thriving in
the 1990’s “.
The Roseland business council reached
out to community-based organizations and
churches to support a Walmart for the community,
anticipating it would spearhead
renewed city and local political support of
revitalizing the entire community area to
provide jobs, training and development,
opportunity for improved living wage employment,
and prosperity for community
residents. The Roseland area community,
however, hasn’t received any reciprocal
benefits for the major community written
and testimonial support provided the 9 th
ward to gain approval for a Walmart in the
area. The hope was restoration of city and
local official support of Greater Roseland’s
years of neighborhood inclusive economic
development, “Revitalizing Greater Roseland
from the inside out”, from 1986 to
2005.
Now Greater Roseland has hopes and
plans for Its “Thriving Communities 2020 to
2050”! Greater Roseland has never given up
expectations of full support from the city,
local officials, institutions and banks, to
work together. Every Chicago Community
Must Matter, if Chicago is to become a city
that works for every neighborhood!
The Roseland Business Council have
stood for equality and justice for economic
development more than 50 years along with
the Chicago South Chamber of Commerce,
located 11145 S. Michigan Ave. which may
have been among the first Chambers Charter
Chicago. The Chicago Street Journal features
in its August, Black Business Months
Issue, four outstanding Black owned businesses
providing 501 combined years of
quality services to Roseland and Chicago
shoppers on “The Avenue”, called by the
community and businesses for many, many
years.
Bass Furniture, located 11431 So.
Michigan, has been in Roseland 80 years,
the oldest of its kind. Owen by Mr. Eddie
Davis for 27 years, providing quality furniture
to rival any other like business to offer
the best service and honest prices. With the
former owner, and Mr. Davis as store Manager,
entire families would shop at Bass.
Mr. Davis said, “it was years before he let
people know he purchased the store and It
hurt me so bad when Blacks also began to
go to other businesses outside the neighborhood
to purchase their furniture”. Bass Furniture
provides the same level of highquality
furniture as other companies and
offers his customers more accommodating
and affordable financing options.
“Until the 115 th street mall was demolished,
lack of foot traffic impacted the three
long standing Black businesses in the area.
However, we maintain faithful satisfied
customers that keep our businesses alive”.
A corporate salesman encouraged Mr.
Davis many times to relocate his business to
other areas where he would do more business
and have consistent customer support of
his fine store. He decided the community
needed his services. He’s still here through
the community’s best, and worst, of times.
In the past, if grandma would buy, all family
members would also buy Bass. When
grandmas pass, families went outside the
community supporting other neighborhoods
and businesses growing wealth. If we’re
offering the same or greater quality goods
and services, we should keep our dollars in
our own community.
Many of Chicago’s well-developed business
districts don’t have the metered system
in local districts with limited off-street parking.
The city’s sale of public parking to a
private company added to more challenges
for customers and local owners. The prolonged
inequitable treatment of distressed
business areas suffers grievous loss due to
ticketing problems for customers.
Old Fashioned Donut’s, located 11248
So. Michigan
Avenue, owned
by Mr. Burritt
Bulloch family
for more than 48
years. Mr. Bulloch
has brought
more television,
and multi-media
publicity and
fame to The Avenue
for many
years featuring
Chicago’s most
beloved, Old Fashioned Donuts, established
in 1972, He’s been asked for many years to
franchise his business and relocate to other
areas for better access, including downtown
Michigan Avenue.
He got his start at Amy Joy Donuts, on
63 rd and Halsted’s CTA elevated train stop,
hiring and training many young people how
to provide quality customer service. He was
offered an opportunity to buy the business
and decided to come to Roseland instead.
His love and faithful customer service to the
Roseland community provides many warm
memories and stories of families, students,
and celebrities that won’t miss seeing Mr.
Bulloch making donuts in the window and
coming in to buy their most favorite, Old
Fashioned Donuts in America, on Roseland’s
So. Michigan Avenue!
The community came to Mr. Bulloch’s
aid with a show of love when the front window
of the store was broken during the protesting
of the brutal loss of life of George
Floyd. A local woman offered to pay for the
window. Mr. Bulloch thanked her and declined
the offer. The community, however,
demonstrated a great show of love and support
by starting a GoFundMe to show the
love and support of Old-Fashioned Donuts’
many loyal customers’ respect for Mr. Bulloch’s
faithful service to Roseland and the
City of Chicago!
Edwards Fashions.
11363 S. Michigan Ave.,
founded in 1974 by John
(JD) Edwards Sr., known as the Roseland
Haberdasher. It is now run by his sons,
Ledall and John Jr. providing quality men’s
ware from head to toe.
Mr. Edwards was an active member of the
Chicago South Chamber of Commerce
which supported commerce on Chicago’s far
south side and beyond Michigan Ave. Roseland
was hard hit in the 1970’s by the shutdown
of the steel mills and white flight from
the area. After noble efforts by the Chamber
of Commerce to stay the course to maintain
the support of area commerce, the Chamber
was dissolved.
To fill the void, Mr. Edwards and other
businesses started the Roseland Business
Development Council in 1979, for which
Mr. Edwards faithfully served as its president.
He provided aggressive leadership in
getting all the local businesses to stand up
for each other. His focus was on stabilization
of the Roseland area businesses, saying “the
Chamber’s gone, but we’re not gone”. It
wasn’t always easy, but he felt that without
local business, there is no community, when
residents must go elsewhere for goods and
services. The Roseland business community
was deeply saddened by his passing in 2007.
After 46 years, his sons continue to provide
high quality goods and stellar customer
service for faithful customers. John Jr. and
Ledall continue the support of the Roseland
Business Development Council to fulfill
John Edwards, Sr. dream of stabilizing economic
development of Chicago’s other
Michigan Ave. business district. Far south
of Chicago’s North Michigan Avenue’s
Gold Coast, it would be in the best interest
of the City of Chicago to support the longdeferred
reinvestment and redevelopment in
Roseland and distressed communities and
local business districts. Families would, no
longer, be forced to shop in other neighborhoods
where they are unwelcome.
Scott Enterprise
located 11513 So.
Michigan, owned by
Mr. Edmond Scott,
has been there for 44
years, providing income
tax, insurance
and notary services.
As a child he lived in
Altgeld Gardens,
g r a d u a t e d f r o m
George Washington
Carver high school yet was never taught
Carver’s many great contributions to America’s
economy.
Mr. Scott always shopped on Michigan
Avenue, instead of going downtown, because
“The Avenue had everything you
would want or need to buy. A hardware,
grocery store and other specialty services.
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Bookkeeping
Accountant
Income tax,
Insurance
Business Service and
Notary services.
11513 S Michigan Ave,
Chicago
(773) 568-8181
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“A tool of white supremacy”
Chicago Street Journal
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Most Chicago aldermen are
praising Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s
decision to remove two Columbus
statues. But not all are on board for
the permanent removal of the statues.
The Grant Park monument was
removed about 3 a.m. Crews also
removed another statue of the Italian
explorer in Arrigo Park on the
Near West Side.
Ald. Anthony Napolitano (41st)
on Friday said he’s very saddened
by the removal, and he questioned
the overnight removal. He dubbed
it “not the American way.”
“It’s because a bunch of people,
a bunch of socialist cancel culture
people cried about it that we removed
it in the middle of the
night,” Napolitano said. “In America,
we do this by discussion.”
“Chicago’s Christopher Columbus
monuments have been removed
— and will stay that way — because
of the Indigenous, Black, and
Brown Chicagoans that have been
fighting for so long to make this
happen,” Aldermen Rossana Rodriguez
(33rd), Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
(35th), Daniel La Spata (1st),
Jeanette Taylor (20th), and Byron
Sigcho-Lopez (25th) said in a statement.
Writer and activist Shaun King
announced that he supports the
destruction of statues that depict a
white Jesus. King, who has been an
outspoken supporter of the Black
Lives Matter movement, tweeted
his remarks. He noted that historians
believe Jesus likely had the
appearance of people who typically
lived in the Middle
East during his
time, rather than
the white man
who is typically
depicted in Christian
iconography.
He took to Twitter and wrote:
“Yes I think the statues of the white
European they claim is Jesus
should also come down. They are a
form of white supremacy. Always
have been,” King tweeted. “In the
Bible, when the family of Jesus
wanted to hide and blend in, guess
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STRONGHOLD AND ISSUE WARN-
ING TO ‘REDNECKS’On 4 July, Independence
Day, hundreds of armed
Black citizens marched, military
style, at a Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
stronghold in Georgia, USA. There
they issued a warning to
“rednecks”.
According to Fox News, the
“protesters”, which local police
estimated as numbering “around
200”, gathered at Stone Mountain
Park to demand that the massive
stone carving there be removed.
The carving is a memorial to general
Robert E Lee, confederate
president Jefferson Davis, and general
Thomas J “Stonewall” Jackson.
All three are confederate heroes and
revered by white supremacists.
This follows Black Lives Matter
(BLM) protests across the US and
elsewhere that saw similar demands
or direct action regarding statues of
slave owners and their Black Lives
Matter protesters gather in front of
the Confederate carving in Stone
Mountain Park on June 16, 2020 in
Stone Mountain, Georgia. The
march is to protest confederate
monuments and recent police shootings.
Stone Mountain Park features
a Confederate Memorial carving
depicting Stonewall Jackson and
Robert E. Lee, President Jefferson
Davis supporters.
The group, known as the Not
F***ing Around Coalition (NFAC)
was comprised of several hundred
people, all dressed in black.
John Jay Fitzgerald Johnson,
known as Grand Master Jay, claims
leadership of the group and has
stated that it is composed of "ex
military shooters." Johnson, who
was an independent candidate for
U.S. president in 2016, stated, "We
are a Black militia. We aren't protesters,
we aren't demonstrators. We
don't come to sing, we don't come
to chant. That's not what we do."
Furthermore, in the same interview,
Johnson expressed Black Nationalist
views, putting forth the view that
the United States should either hand
the state of Texas over to African-
Americans so that they may form
an independent country, or allow
African-Americans to depart the
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United States to another country
that would provide land upon which
to form an independent nation.
The first public sighting of the
NFAC took place on May 12, 2020,
in Brunswick, Georgia, as a direct
response to the shooting death of
Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old
Black jogger murder by two white
males in February. Although early
reports on the NFAC linked the
organization to the Black Panther
Party, the NFAC has denied any
connection. Although African
Americans appeared to account for
the vast majority of the marchers,
protesters of various races, men and
women alike, were among the
group.
Of all the Confederate monuments
under fire, the 1,700-foot
high outcropping of granite with
carvings of Robert E. Lee, Thomas
“Stonewall” Jackson and Jefferson
Davis is—by far—the largest.
Covering more than 17,000
square feet of mountain and 40 feet
deep in the crannies, the carving—
at nine-stories high—is the largest
flat relief
sculpture in the
Stone Mountain Ku Klux Klan rally. Supporters of the Ku
Klux Former Klan presidential march May candidate
2016, John Jay Fitzger-
Harris/Getty Images)
4, 1989, Stone Mountain, Georgia (Paul
ald Johnson, known as
Grand Master Jay, claims
leadership of the group Not
F***ing Around Coalition
(NFAC)
world. Planning of the monument
began only in 1914. Funding for the
project came primarily from the Ku
Klux Klan, which regularly met on
the mountain to burn crosses and
the project's first directors and promoters
were KKK members. Their
original plan was to depict General
Robert E. Lee leading Confederate
soldiers and Klan members up the
mountain.
The park officially opened to the
public on April 14, 1965 — the
hundredth anniversary of the assassination
of President Abraham Lincoln.
After the memorial was complete,
“a ‘neo-Confederate theme
park’ emerged around the site, including
a plantation house, a “Gone
With the Wind” museum, according
to a report from the Atlanta History
C e n t e r , T h e N e w Y o r k
Times reported.
Stacey Abrams, the former minority
leader of the Georgia House
of Representatives and the Democratic
nominee for governor in 2018,
declared during her unsuccessful
gubernatorial campaign that the
granite carving is “a blight on our
state” and called for its removal.
"We must never celebrate
those who defended slavery and
tried to destroy the union," Abrams
said.
Removing the monument would
take a lot of dynamite and require a
change in state law. The Georgia
code says the Confederate memorial
should be “preserved and protected
for all time as a tribute to the
bravery and heroism of the citizens
of this state who suffered and died
in their cause.”
“Anytime there appears to be a
gross injustice against the Black
community, we’ve decided we’re
going to take it to the streets. We’re
going to take it to their face and
show them what Malcolm said was
true. There are no such things as a
b l o o d l e s s r e v o l u t i o n . ” -
Grandmaster Jay
Major Gang Arrest CPD Breaks Down Number
of Gangs ‘Plug’ in gang associate question police numbers
Chicago is considered the most ganginfested
city in the United States. There are
more than 100,000 gang members in Chicago,
the city’s top cop said hours after a shooting at
a funeral, believed to be gang retaliation, left
15 people wounded.
In total, Supt. David Brown said, there are
117,000 gang members, who are part of the
city’s 55 known gangs. Of those 55 gangs,
there are 747 factions, which also have 2,500
subsets.
An alleged Chicago gang leader is among
23 individuals facing criminal charges as part
of a federal investigation into drug and gun
trafficking on the city's South Side.
The defendants were arrested July 28, after
the shooting at the funeral in the city’s
Gresham neighborhood.
However, the federal investigation was a
multi-year investigation, according to the
Northern District of Illinois U.S. Attorney's
Office. The arrests come as federal authorities
beef up their presence in Chicago to target
v i o l e n t c r i m e .
"We're here to announce a big win the big win
for our team and for the people of the Southside
of Chicago," said Chicago Police Superintendent
David Brown. "The two dozen individuals
that were arrested are arrested for
serious crime. They promoted violence. They
promoted drug activity," said Emerson Buie,
Chicago FBI Special Agent in Charge.
Among those arrested is Darnell McMiller,
34, of Chicago, also known as "Murder."
McMiller is described in the charges as the
current leader of the Black Disciples street
gang in Chicago. Several other alleged highranking
members of the Black Disciples were
also charged and arrested; including Clarence
January, who allegedly leads the gang's "Dog
Pound" factions; Kenneth Browns, who allegedly
supplied the gang with drugs for distribution
in Chicago; as well as Charles Knight, an
alleged high-ranking member of the Gangster
Chicago Street Journal August 20—September 2, 2020 Page 9
Disciples street gang, who is
charged as part of the probe with
supplying narcotics to McMiller's
crew.
Former Chicago Police Superintendent
Garry McCarthy blames
Chicago's gang culture for its high
rates of homicide and other violent
crime, stating "It's very frustrating
to know that it's like 7% of the
population causes 80% of the violent
crime...The gangs here are
traditional gangs that are generational,
if you will. The grandfather
was a gang member, the father's a
gang member, and the kid right
now is going to be a gang member.
According to Brown, that fuels
what he described as a “cycle of
violence.”
“Someone was shot, which
prompts someone else to pick up a
gun,” he said.
That, they believe, was the motive
behind the shooting at a funeral
in the city’s Gresham neighborhood.
Chicago authorities said they
“had intelligence” that the man being mourned
by family and friends was killed in a drive-by
shooting in the nearby Englewood neighborhood
earlier this month.
“We investigated further and there was a
gang connection and we deployed our resources
accordingly,” Brown said.
“Too many people in Chicago have been
touched by gun violence and the response too
often is picking up a gun to seek vengeance,”
Brown said. “There is no comfort in revenge.”
Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Brendan
Deenihan describes what happened when
a shootout unfolded at a Chicago funeral,
leaving 15 people wounded.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot called those responsible
for the shooting “cowardly.”
“The senseless violence, this cycle of
retaliation, picking up a gun – many times in
petty grievances – picking up a gun solves
nothing but causes so much lifelong pain,” she
said. “I pray for you but I also pray that we
find you and that we bring you to justice.”
The violence is most egregious in the
urban area because of the organized subculture
that historically sustains various conditions
of violence, i.e. the lifestyle of gangs.
Jemont Montgomery added that the
numbers the police report of gang members
are not all that correct. He pointed to the
’Card” system of the CPD.
Youth since 2003 have been subject to stop
A federal drug and gun trafficking investigation has led to
the arrest and indictment of 23 men, including a leader of
the Chicago Black Disciples street gang, Darnell McMiller
(above), 34, of Chicago, also known as "Murder." .
Justice activist Jermont
Montgomery who is
‘Pluged it’ into the
streets question the
Police Department
numbers in that many
youth are stop by the
police and ‘Card’ them
as gang members.
“This can include traffic
and frest tackics of the police
for traffic and pedestrian stops without an
arrest, the department provided a report
known as the contact card. Printed on white
bond paper, roughly four-by-eight inches, the
card included lines for the individual’s name,
address, birth date, race, physical features and
so on. It also included space to note alleged
gang ties.
You have guys arrested that are now in the
40’s identified by the ‘Contact Card’ as gang
members. Which really is not the case.”
By 2013, Chicago cops were entering the
information from more than 700,000 contact
cards a year into the database. McCarthy had
d o u b l e d t h a t n u m b e r s i n c e
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One could purchase durable goods, adult
clothing, children’s clothing, sporting goods,
jewelry, furniture, and major department store
wares. Whatever you needed, you could buy
in Roseland”. Roseland had a movie theater
and dining choices. As a young boy Mr. Scott
said, “I wished I had a business in Roseland”.
His wish was fulfilled in 1976 when he
gave up his second job to take ownership of
the business. Dun & Bradstreet said, “Mr.
Scott you are now in business for yourself”.
He’s been the President of The Roseland
Business Development Council since John
Edwards Sr. passing in 2007. RBDC has
celebrated well attended Annual Awards Banquets
every year since, recognizing individuals
and organizations supporting the growth of
the Greater Roseland communities.
The Ware Ranch Steak House, located
11147 So. Michigan Ave. The “Ware Ranch
Steak House” is a first-class food service restaurant
providing hardy menu selections in a
great dining atmosphere for individuals, family
and business clientele. Truly an unparalleled
experience on So. Michigan Ave.
Open since 1969, The Ranch Steak House
has been in the Roseland community for decades.
The Wares have been local homeowners
in Roseland for more than 20 years. Mr.
______ Ware always wanted to own a restaurant
and wanted to invest in a Subway franchise.
Mr. Ware was provided an opportunity
to purchase one of Roseland’s long established
businesses on The Avenue.
They have fully renovated and invested in
new restaurant décor,
including replacing all
cooking appliances to
assure their customers’
enjoyment of the
best quality foods and
service.
The Ware Ranch
Steak House was vandalized
and gutted by
fire during the nation’s
protests following the
tragic, witnessed death of George Floyd.
However, they hope to have a complete
comeback and open for family and business
dinning again for the south side of Chicago!
CONTINUED PLANNING FOR A
THRIVING COMMUNITY
After achieving successful housing new
development, redevelopment and numerous
supportive housing developments, the Roseland
Michigan Avenue TIF was initiated in
1997 by the successful collaboration of community-based
organizations, residents and
businesses working together to focus on The
Avenue’s long termed differed economic development.
The Roseland Michigan Ave. TIF was approved
in 2001 after years of local and city
participation in its design. The community
continues to ask, how have the Greater Roseland
area TIF benefited Michigan Avenue and
its extension to 103 rd street? The TIFs and
Special Service Area instituted without the
request has doubled their taxes with no significant
benefits for the long term invested
businesses, nor attraction of other businesses.
With the vast vacant, boarded, and inadequate
business mix, adding insult to injury, the
TIF funds have been used in Pullman Park.
Local support of local city delegate agencies
was defunded in 2004, leaving a great
void in community transparency and inclusion
in all economic development activities
taking place in the area for past 16
years.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND
HOPE DASHED AGAIN!
The show of Greater Roseland’s, and
other wards’, major support for an area
Walmart, in anticipation of renewed city
support of its distressed communities and
their ills: food deserts; lack of city and
local inclusive economic development;
participation in sustainable housing; quality
education; healthcare parity; overall community
safety; local employment; economic disparity;
vacant houses; blighted buildings;
abandoned lots; and a glaringly visible appearance
of disregard for the south side and,
more particularly, Roseland’s primarily African
American community.
CONTINUED RISK FACTORS
Roseland’s South Michigan Avenue, one of
Chicago’s oldest and most successful Business
Districts, has become one of Chicago’s
most distressed, disinvested business districts,
ignored and deprived of its basic business
right to enjoy economic growth and development
for far too many years. Lacking local
and city support of economic development;
suffering the loss of quality women’s clothing
stores; eyeglass retailers; jewelry stores; and
an overall varietal mix of stores, the corridor
has languished. The off-street parking lots
that used to service the area have been deplorable
for years and are unsafe for use. The 10
or more years of local disinvestment and recent
divestment of Neighborhood Housing
Services from Roseland, along with a lack of
community economic development; limited
housing redevelopment; and hundreds of vacant
lots and houses have all caused Roseland
to be in worse condition than when it had the
highest foreclosure rate in the entire country,
in the late 1970s and 80s. Roseland is in
worse social and economic conditions causing
a level of fear, violence and crime that puts
everyone at risk.
The non-support of Roselands east side
business districts has caused them to be far
less vibrant than they were in the past.
The RBDC remains hopeful for the Roseland
community to thrive and become a beacon
of hope for the homeowners, businesses,
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Chicago Street Journal
of “the
Eddie S. Read, Chairman
Chicago Black United Communities
FAMILY AND
THE COMMUNITY
W
e must face the fact that we
have an impoverished underclass
in America. The violence is
most egregious in the urban area because
of the organized subculture that
historically sustains various conditions
of violence, i.e. the lifestyle of gangs.
In today’s urban community you have
grandchildren that come from the womb
born into the lifestyle of gangs as the
grandchildren of the King and Queen of
England are born into aristocracy. As
children are born into the life of a Muslim,
a Christian, or a catholic, being
born in the gang code for some children,
is almost as strong as being born into a
religion. Many of the children in the
family of violence experienced the
world of violence before they can spell
or pronounce it. Chicago unlike many
other urban areas the entrenchment of
the gang life and the control of the street
turf is a huge challenge for many young
children even in today’s times.
It is the young children of today that
don’t have the gang street structure in
place that their fathers and grandfathers
had in earlier times. The structure that
was enforced by the grandfathers of
these children have diminished due to a
number of contributing factors. Therefore,
the young people in Chicago are
still faced with the issues of crossing
gang geographical boundaries as well as
other challenges that cause them life
threatening situations. However, the
existence of the previously implemented
gang protocol has been seriously diminished.
There is no concrete entity that is
enforcing street law nor street justice for
violators of what was once a well established
code. Therefore, a current faction
of individuals elect to solve disputes
and grievances by using killings
as the ultimate tool of enforcement. If
you take a look at other cultures and
societies where gangs were prominent,
there was an ensuing lifestyle of violence.
Another strong contributing factor
to the interpersonal violence is the act of
anger that becomes rage. Many of the
young boys of today have not been
taught the principles of manhood that
shows them that fighting should be
avoided at all times and will take place
when all else has failed.
“Men and women of all races are
born with the same range of abilities.
But ability is not just a product of birth.
Ability is stretched or stunted by the
family you live with, and the neighborhood
you live in by the school you go to
and the poverty or the richness of your
surroundings. It is the product of a
hundred unseen forces playing upon the
little infant, the child, and finally the
man” (Lyndon B. Johnson, commencement
speech Howard University June. 4,
1965).
There is a subculture in the impoverished
underclass that children are
trapped in. They seem to be stunted by
their families, neighborhoods and other
contributing factors of destruction.
Many who are impoverished don’t shoot
and kill. Therefore, we must look at the
lifestyle, contributing factors and character
traits of those who do.
I don’t believe you will solve this
problem until you look through the eyes
shooter”. Once the shooter is caught he
is diminished as a human being, he is
classified as the scum of the earth and in
most instances, he is neither evaluated
nor does he receive proper treatment.
He is simply labeled as a criminal and
imprisoned.
No one seems to establish a profile
of the shooter. However, when there is
another shooting, the same cycle occurs,
the community is outraged, they run to
the aid of the deceased and their family,
“As They Should”. They address
causes and effects in general terms of
poverty, lack of education, no strong
family unit, lack of moral values the
issue of guns and various police concerns
and strategies.
Certainly the great amount of attention
to the deceased and their family is
most appropriate. But we must recognize
also that in the eyes of many, the
shooter is also a victim. It is not just
enough to lock up the shooter and feel
relieved that he has been punished. Let
me strongly urge that you must start
spending a great deal of time assessing
who the shooter is and why he has become
the shooter.
I have been told that some young
people who participate in violence are
ingesting drug cocktails that will make
them temporarily psychotic. Some
young men see the gun and its incredible
impact on life as a way of showing
their manhood. The matters of mental
health, more education, lack of resources
poor or no financial support or
other debilitating issues are contributing
factors.
A huge contributing factor is the
kind of family and social network that
the person is born into and lives within.
In many instances, the behavior of the
shooter is pre-disposed because he is
born into a family and a network where
violence is pervasive.
Eddie S. Read is a protégé of activist/journalist
Lu Palmer. Read has
spent more than 30 years as an activist
in the grassroot community in Chicago,
Illinois. Contact: chicagoblackunitedcommunities@gmail.com
or 773-848-8049.
Reference
1 President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Commencement Address at University
of Michigan "The Great Society"
Speech President Lyndon B. Johnson
May 22, 1964
2 President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Commencement Address at Howard
University “To Fulfill These Rights”
June 4, 1965
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I
n one of many documentaries of the street life
in Chicago, one street male in his early twenties
stated it is the high greater than any drug.
It is safe to say 95% of most gangsters’ rappers use
the word as an expression of culture identification,
as well as many Black communities across the nation.
No other ethnicity of people (youth) kill each
other in comparison to others as the African American.
And no other ethnicity of people (youth) degrade
themselves, embracing a word that has degraded
their culture, trouble history and disrespect
of their accentors as in using the N-word.
What is very clear the
N word refers to and
its origin is to degrade
since slavery to the
private homes, police,
and offices of non-
Black people.
President Barack
Obama used the N-
word to make a
point about the reality
of racism in
America during an
interview with comedian
Marc Maron.
Obama’s
speech was about
how racism is more
than just the N
word. However the
TV newscaster ignored
the content of
his speech and focused
on him saying
the word
Never has a word
so decidedly raw
and divisive, intentionally offensive, contemptuous
and structurally racist, been so successfully
embedded into society and accepted as
normal and mundane. It is the most offensive
word in the English language.
Upon viewing gangster rap movies, music, and
drive-by language of the youth most use the noun
word Nigger. In most cases in every paragraph
spoke by them is to degrade and to kill.
A dollar bet, any youth that have killed another,
use the N word as an hourly practice in a conversation.
Study: Rap Music Linked to Alcohol,
Violence. A study by the
Prevention Research Center of the
Pacific Institute for Research and
Evaluation in Berkeley, Calif.,
suggests young people who listen
to rap and hip-hop are more likely
to abuse alcohol and commit violent
acts and use the N-word as
fashionable than their pants off
their butts.
What is the impact of such a complex
word that has experienced
multiple transformations while
simultaneously remaining just the
same? Over the years, blacks have
attempted to take command of the
word and re-contextualize it to
remove the blight and the sting.
How can a word born of such
insidious and violent undertones
be so manipulated and bastardized by cultural reappropriation,
that on the one hand it elicits raucous
laughter, losing its sense of peril, while on the other
hand, it is shouted in anger and serves up frightening
images of unimaginable horror? Many around
the world wield the N-word. Unfortunate, however,
is that Blacks use it against each other to elicit fear
and to signify impending danger.
According to a poll published by the Pew Research
Center more than 70 percent of Americans
believed that rap had an overall negative impact on
society. Some rap and hip-hop songs do indeed
glamorize destructive behavior like substance abuse
and violence. (Apr 4, 2018). They correctly point
out that what’s referred to as “black-on-black violence”
is really a by-product of residential segregation
and concentrated poverty
However, the killing of FBG Duck on Chicago’s
Jay Z’s during a concert performing his most profound hit, “Jigga My
Nigga,” during a concert the attendees singing alone the title song lyric
‘Jigga My Nigga’, Black and White. https://www.youtube.com/
watch?
Gold Coast, the retaliation of his murder, FBG Duck
was a falborate user of the N Word.
African American children use of the word to
each other more than the generations before them.
Some youth and rappers say it’s endearment, ‘Ole
Schoolers’ just use it out of habit, but Generation X
and the Mililiiums its use has internalized racism
more they realize.
Jay Z’s most profound hit, “Jigga My Nigga,”
during a concert the attendees singing alone the title
song lyric ‘Jigga My Nigga’, Black and White.
Oprah Winfrey interviewing Jay-Z, argued
against the usage of the N-word, Jay-Z arguing for
its use as a “term of endearment” that had been
“taken back” — sent shock waves through the music
industry everywhere.
Jay-Z's argument as a logical fallacy, insists that
the disagreement on the usage of the word is not due
to a generational gap, but others feel differently.
"I know my elders, the people I know from my
community who were active in the Civil Rights
movement, people who were nearly lynched, have
also said `That word means something that y'all
don't understand, and you taking that word and
saying it's endearment has negative impacts on the
history they fought for,'"
Then there are rappers who steer clear of the N-
word, but they aren't the ones moving records at a
higher pace than those that use. More specifically
about the artist Common, in an interview ".he
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Chicago Street Journal August 20—September 2, 2020 Page 11
B
lack Lives don’t matter, without a Black
Business Matter. Now that the grief and anger
is about over, and the looters picked up some items
(which based on the late model cars they were driving
seen on the news seems they could have bought those
items stolen).
It is also a time again for resolve. It is a time to meet
anguish with the development of Black Wall Street of
Tulsa Oklahoma, as it was in Chicago’s Black Wall
Street in the 1930’s, Chicago once in Bronzeville.
Maybe Gil Scott-Heron's song of 1971 ‘The Revolution
will not be televised’ was correct in a way in which
the leaders of Black Lives Matter are not presenting
publicly. Its’ economics. A campaign of power and influence
to heal the divides and bring us together under
what this country is about and many of us love; Capitalism.
Over 100 other cities in the United States, held demonstrations,
supporting justice for George Floyd with
tens of millions of dollars having been donated to BLM
by America’s biggest companies on down. (The very
companies that would be confiscated if BLM had its
way). If the same amount of money and time was invested
in the month of August being National Black
Business Month, there would be no great need for BLM.
Yes, police brutality would still be present as it has been
to oppress Black people as it happened on Black Wall
Street of Tulsa. It destroyed its self-serving black business;
(But the Black people of Tulsa did pick up arms
and fought back to no avail).
The looters in no way represented the millions of
BLM supporters, many was part of their protesting. But
the looters impact was greater than all of the demonstrations.
The looting on Michigan Ave. was not just the opportunity
to loot; there was a part of letting out their frustration.
It played out very structured for destruction, and
for what this country was founded on: Greed, from
Christopher Columbus to Donald Trump. From inception
through execution, they got exactly the results they
sought, as did the Europeans to the Native Americans,
including their violent confrontation with more chaos,
and more division.
And as for BLM’s corporate contributors, they’d be
wise to remember Vladimir Lenin’s words: “The Capitalists
will sell us the rope with which we will hang
them.” Demonstrators without making steps to combat
police violence and systemic racism without business
development is like a bird with wings called a chicken
that cannot fly. It was more of a door that says pull,
while the protestors are pushing.
Each could have contributed $1 that would have created
an economic revolution.
Then there is the saying, “People are organized to be
disorganized”.
There is a businessman in the White House, President
Trump, tweeting "Thank you to the great people of The
Villages," to the video clip he shared, a man driving a
golf cart displaying pro-Trump signs and flags displaying
'white power.’ However, the video also shows anti-
Trump protesters shouting "Nazi," "racist," and profanities
at the Trump backers. The president's decision to
highlight a video featuring a racist slogan comes amid a
national reckoning over race. Yes, there is ’A Riot going
on’ on all sides, as Sly and the Family Stone cited in
1972.
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd and the
wave of protest that has followed, there is a saying “Be
ready when the people are ready for change. If not, instead
of a revolution, you will have a riot”.
Putting money into Black-owned businesses is about
as simple as it gets. As anti-racist sentiments ring out
across the globe, never forget the power of the almighty
dollar.
Claire Young wrote for INSIDE Hook, Marcus Ward,
the owner Urban Grill Chicago, adds urgency, saying,
“It’s important to support Black-owned businesses especially
right now because there’s not many Black businesses
still up and running. Between COVID and the
looting, it’s important to support the ones we have left
before there are no more of us left.” The stakes are high
for Ward, who says it’s extremely important to him for
Ron Carter Publisher and Editor
his children to see Black people as business owners, and
not just workers”.
“Chicagoans should support Black-owned businesses
right now because, more than ever, communities are in
need of stabilization. It is imperative that we invest in
our own. And when we do this we can revitalize faster,”
says Doughboy Fryison, co-founder of Doughboy’s
Chicago. He says support from the city of Chicago in
conjunction with individuals making more of a conscious
effort to support and acknowledge these businesses
can allow them to rebuild stronger than before.
Despite the city’s segregation, no matter where you
live in Chicago, there are Black-owned businesses, and
supporting them means supporting the larger movement
for equality and justice. In a post circulating social media,
poet Lindsay Young wrote “Resistance is NOT a
one lane highway. Maybe your lane is protesting, maybe
your lane is organizing, maybe your lane is counseling,
maybe your lane is art activism, maybe your lane is surviving
the day. Do NOT feel guilty for not occupying
every lane. We need all of them.”
August National Black Business Month should not
leave in August but be continued 365 days a year to
avoid another riot.
Letters to the Editor
Stolen
Children
Dear Editor
H
ow can an 18 month old infant baby girl just be
ripped away from her mother's arms at gunpoint
by the Chicago police department and then thrown
into a strangers home to be hidden and concealed for 20
years from her birth parents.
Till this day no one has sat down with this young lady
to help her with anything. she was diagnosed with post
traumatic stress disorder because of emotional anxiety
separation without being able to see her brothers, her
sisters and her parents for 16 years straight. She has been
beaten, raped medically neglected, educationally neglected.
till this day she has no income, no place of her
own. severe health problems that she was not born with.
no lawyer will help her get SSI from social security due
to no fault of her own.
She has two different social security numbers, two
different IDs, one says Wendy Nicholas and one says
Wendy Linton. Why no one will help her. How is all of
this ok? where is the justice for this young lady. where is
the investigation of this matter. If anyone cares to represent
this lady for violations and human rights abuse of
her life please email me back . should the Casa program
or Loyola as well as the cook county public guardian's
office be forced to bring a lawsuit against DCFS,
CATHOLIC CHARITIES, CHILDSERVE, AUNT
MARTHAS YOUTH SERVICE EVE-
RYONE THAT HAD THIS CASE BUT
FAILED HER.
jerry nicholas
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“God can do anything,
but Fall”.
Leon Daniels,
Pastor
821 West 69th Street
Bible Study Tuesday 7 pm, Wed 6 pm
Fri. Service 7 pm—Sun. School 9:30 am
Sunday Service 11 am
773-487-9062
unityatcogic@gmail.com
Liberation
Christian Center
7400 S Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60619
773-783-1885
Chicago Street Journal
T
here are times in life when you
must sit back and ask the question
why? Why? It seems like a crazy thought,
but asking why sometimes gives us a sense
of direction into how and when. Which
will ultimately bring us to the answer that
guides us into what to do!
Allow me to give you an example
that invokes the question being
asked that contains the word
why? For example, why do we
put up with the behavior of a
president who obviously lacks
moral standards, or any human
decency? Why does the leader
of the free world lack insight
into the senseless killing of our
children? Why are so many
unarmed black men and
woman being murdered?
Why do we as a people make
excuses for the violence that has entered
our schools? But the most important why
is the why that leads me to this next question.
Why are so many of our young adults
and children being killed?
And as I meditated on these
things, I suddenly began to have a revelation
based on certain biblical time frames
outlined from the bible and history. One of
those time frames was a reminder from the
days of Moses.
The book of Exodus chapter 1
gives an account of the king of Egypt ordering
the midwives (versus 16) to kill all
the male children and save the female children
alive. As the account goes we find
that Moses escaped sure death and later
became a leader of deliverance for his people
to be freed from bondage and slavery.
That speaks volumes to the why, and who
wanted to inflict violence and death on the
children of that generation. The enemy
wanted the young destroyed because he
knew that one would rise from that generation
as a deliverer.
That led me to the next time
frame biblically, in which involved one the
most controversial figures in human history.
That Man is Jesus the Christ! It was
then I noticed that the scripture (Matthew
chapter 2 & Matthew 2:16 most importantly)
pointed out that Herod ordered the
children 2 years and under killed. He was
trying to stop the birth of Christ. Remember
the seed was to come to save and deliver
his people. But the last time frame in
which I presently live in has increased the
pattern of attack against our children and
young adults.
That attack comes from drugs,
incarceration, school shootings, and government
policies that favor the senseless
killing and destruction of our seed. This
last time frame is recorded in the book of
romans in this one powerful scripture Romans
8:18-19, which reads the whole creation
waits for the manifestation of the sons
of God. Therefore, we must rise as men
and restore the family. We can’t not afford
to keep making excuses why our children
are killing each other, and being killed by
corrupt law enforcement and random
SCOGC to address Homelessness
Over 80,000 people are
considered homeless in Chicago,
according to the Chicago
Coalition of the Homeless.
Around 80 percent of
them “live doubled-up in the
homes of others due to hardship.”
The remainder are in
shelters or sleep outside, it
says.
Charge to address homelessness,
Elder Kevin Anthony Ford
pastor of St. Paul Church of God in
Christ has called on members of
the community in Bronzeville to
serve on a task force to successfully
garnered compelling action.
STCOG has an establish and
now to extend its outreach for Prevention
and other housing stability
to resolving issues that contributed
to the initial housing crisis.
Bishop J.
Edward
Dukes
Pastor
school shootings.
This is an article written not to
just sound inspirational, it’s an article in
which our inspiration becomes a force to
move in the power of God, and operate in
wisdom we have acquired from the mistakes
made in the past. This Starts with us
realizing the time frame currently live in.
As time go on I will reveal my detailed
plan for the children of this generation.
The name of that plan is Operation Exodus.
Stay tuned!
THE INN PLACE MINISTRIES
All These
Things
ivers running down
R the stream
Sun in the sky pouring down beams
Rain waters fallings all over the land
The Paths and Roads and Ways of
man
Birds flying wild in the vast blue
Flowers that settle under mornings
dew
Hills and Mountains fine and grand
The Seas that flow up to the sand
The Trees that stand straight and tall
Snowflakes in winter that begin to
fall
Flashes of Lighting and claps of
Thunder
All these things set your mind to
Wonder
Anthology of My Mind by
G.A.Cummings Copyrights
With tributes to Yolanda Adams:
“This Too Shall Pass”
LIFE
MATTERS!
A
s some of you know, I just
seen the doctor for my 3
month post cancer/chemo
checkup. It’s good to be in the land of the
living, since this was my second round of
wrestling with cancer.
Praise The Lord, I’m totally cancer
free and hope to be the rest of my life. I
thank all of you who encouraged, prayed
and even was just thinking of me. All of
you have given me the strength to keep
going and heal, especially God!
With all this crazy chaos going on it
seems satan is relishing
in people dividing again
over color, politics and
just nit picking. I’d just
like to say: All life matters.
The Cops matter,
the President, Governors,
Majors, Clergy, Black,
White, Brown, Red, Yellow,
Special Needs People,
Children, Middle Aged, and Senior
Citizens, even people that we don’t think
their lifestyle is appropriate behavior.
WHY? Because we are all God’s children,
no matter how old we are, what profession
we are in, what religion we observe,
what color we are, or even who we
vote for. We are individuals that God designed
to be different, look and act different.
I wouldn’t want anyone to look like or
act like me. I’m one of a kind like God
made and to have more than one of me
would be way too much for the world to
handle.
That’s why I think other people are so
fascinating: How they dress, do their hair,
their head dresses, their cultures, personalities,
their love and kindness, their anger
and reasons for it. What basically makes
each person tick? When we
continually go around judging
one another, that’s a way of us
trying to bring people
down. It gives a person a feeling
of superiority. None of us
is more superior than anyone
else on earth. We all were
born to live, eat, drink, work,
go to the bathroom and then
die someday. (See how simi-
TerriJo
lar we are)! Is it our plan to destroy other
people and their property while we’re
alive? Wouldn’t it be better to do a good
deed each day to someone you just can’t
stand! Show a little kindness and love,
then you’ll find out how that person ticks
and why all life matters!
*Romans 13:1-4 ESV
1 Let every person be subject to the
governing authorities. For there is no authority
except from God,
and those that exist have
been instituted by God.
2 Therefore whoever resists
the authorities resists
what God has appointed,
and those who resist will
incur judgment.
3 For rulers are not a terror
to good conduct, but
to bad. Would you have no fear of the one
who is in authority? Then do what is good,
and you will receive his approval,
4 for he is God's servant for your good.
But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does
not bear the sword in vain. For he is the
servant of God, an avenger who carries out
God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
* Romans 3:23 KJV
[23] For all have sinned, and come
short of the glory of God;
-Stay safe: The Inn Place Ministries,
GOOD DAY
TerriJo
For comments,
questions and or prayers
theinnplaceministries@outlook.com.
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reset aggregating the capital for
meeting the right of development
during the International Decade for
People of African Descent.
To mark the 26th anniversary
of National Black Business Month
in Illinois, Rep. La Shawn K. Ford,
D-Chicago, kicked off National
Black Business Month on August
1st by recognizing and
joined with local leaders and
Black business organizations
at an event at Society
Night Club, 2201 W. Walnut
St. in Chicago. In addition,
TheBlackMall.com is
hosting Weekend Black
Business Crawls highlighting
Black-Owned Enterprises
in Five Chicago Business
Districts.
Both events were official
recognized by the state
of Illinois in honor of ancestor,
Dr. Webb Evans,
“We want to celebrate
the legacy of Dr. Webb
Evans and our many local
Black business organizations
and entrepreneurs who work
hard to uplift our Black community
by supporting each other,” Ford
said.
“This year has illustrated the
importance of Black Americans
working together to build a solid
economic foundation that maximizes
shared economic interests and
invests in the people of our community.
Chicago is home to many fantastic
small business owners, and
it’s important we recognize and
support them.”
The 16 annual State of Black
Business reports give a baseline of
information to shape policy and
investment according to co-founders
Frederick E. Jordan Sr., PE and
John William Templeton to present
a plan to revive the
black population in
their home base of
San Francisco--
called BounceBank
Black SF.
The Black Business
Month, which encourages
residents
to consider their
Rep. La Shawn K.
Ford, D-Chicago,
kicked off National
Black Business Month
purchasing decisions
and Buy
Black, Love Black,
Give Black.
The Black Business
Month, which encourages
residents
to consider their
purchasing decisions
and Buy Black,
Love Black, Give Black.
Ford joined others honored and
recognized Craig Hodges, Mickey
Johnson, Bobby Simmons and a
number of other sports figures in
business.
Recognized organizations included
Austin Chamber of Commerce,
TheBlackMall.com, Black
Wall Street Districts, Black Star
Project, Austin African American
Business Network Association, 79th
Street Corridor Business Association,
Sib's Breakfast Club, Global
Institute, Garfield Park Chamber of
Commerce, Entrepreneur Success
Program, BopBiz Center, the Library
and Cultural Gallery, Black
Chicago Eats and Bean Soup Times.
Ford was joined in hosting the
event by Chatham Business Association,
Bobby Simmons, COAL-
Coalition of African American
Leaders, UBAPA-United Black
American Progress Association,
Blacknificent Mile 79th Street Corridor
and Chicago Playground Legends.
Reports also show that African
American businesses grew by more
than 400% in 2018 as compared to
2017. In order to continue this
growth and to help maintain these
businesses, TBM CEO Cassiopeia
Uhuru said, “We have curate this
Black Business Crawl to make it
easy for you to find and support
Black owned business in Chicago
and South Suburbs”.
Every Saturday, beginning TBM
will visit 1 of 5 Chicagoland areas
to sip, shop and support featured
Black owned businesses. The Saturdays
will kick off at noon at a Flagship
Black owned business, complete
with DJ and libations. “We
will premier the list of businesses to
support in that area. We invite all to
join us via car, caravan, bike, by
foot or crawl for this impactful
experience in unity”.
TheBlackMall.com is a
book, brick and click platform
that Makes it EASY to
Build & Buy Black! They
will be joining forces with
Afrika Enterprises, Black
Entrepreneurship Collective,
BlackEats, Blacknificent
Mile 79th Street Corridor,
CBW Productions, Red
Level Entertainment, SMP
Creative Business and Design,
Steps Inc Consulting,
The Black Ink Group,
United Black American
Progress Association and
WDB Marketing to sip,
shop and support Black
businesses like we've
never done before declared
Uhuru.
“2020 is a year of major change,
making it an open portal for Black
owned businesses to finally gain the
spotlight,” “August is the perfect
month to set the stage.”
The Black Business Crawl will
happen in Englewood, Hyde Park,
Frederick E. Jordan of F.E. Jordan Associates
Inc. in 2004, teamed up with John William
Templeton, (both from San Francisco
Ca.) president and executive editor of eAccess
Corp., a scholarly publishing company,
to have August recognized as National Black
Business Month. Photo Black Enterprise Mag.
Chatham, Austin, and Uptown, and
other communities between noon
and 4pm every Saturday in August
and include some of Chicago’s favorite
Black owned businesses such
as Culture Connection, The Silver
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Trial Lawyer
Announces
Chicago Street Journal
New Firm
Attorney Dr. Maudia Washington
has opened her second law firm in
the heart of downtown Chicago at
111 W. Jackson Suite 1146. Washington
Law Offices is a Woman
Owned, Minority litigation law
firm. Attorney Washington said the
firm is ready to serve the needs of
the community of Chicago, its residents,
and businesses.
Washington has served as lead
trial counsel and has prosecuted and
litigated against large Fortune 500
companies, governmental entities,
and individuals in a wide range of
commercial matters..
A graduate from Southern Illinois
University with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Administration of Justice
with a minor in Sociology. She has
a Master of Business Administration
and Doctor of Business Administration
in International Business
and graduated from Michigan
State University School of Law
with a Juris Doctor in Business
Law. Washington Law Offices have
offices in Chicago and Rockford,
HAROLD L. BAILEY
OWNER AT……..
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Room, Sip & Savor, Batter & Berries,
Shawn Michelle’s and many
more. Each crawl will kick off at a
flagship business complete with a
DJ, libations and a host organization
that will disseminate information on
the next businesses to visit and support
in that area. We invite all to
join us via car, caravan, bike, by
foot or crawl for this impactful experience
in unity.
To help track the impact of supporting
these businesses throughout
the month, TBM has joined forces
with Black Coin to test a new web
and mobile application that makes it
easy for users to upload their receipts,
identify Black-owned businesses
and gather important data
that can be used to improve our
business districts.
808 East 79th Street
Chicago
Phone: (773) 891-5762
TheBlackMall.com kicked off National Black Business Month by hosting Weekends Black
Business Crawls highlighting Black-Owned Enterprises in Five Chicago Business Districts.
Above TBM and supporting joined Cath Jackson, owner of Deja Hue Art Studio located
10505 S. Western. (R) The Black Mall CEO Cassiopeia Uhuru is with John’s Hardware
on 73rd and Halsted.
In addition, we will be hosting a
day to give back to the community
on August 15th by distributing hot
meals in collaboration with The
Doula Part and The Culture Chicago.
“Please join us as we seize these
historical moments and continue the
movement emphasizing that Black
Lives AND Black Businesses Matter,”
Uhuru continued.
TBM an aggregator of Black
owned businesses offering product
distribution and bookable services
for entrepreneurs via multi-vendor
website, brick and mortar retail/
fulfillment center and digital marketing
solutions, Making it EASY to
Build & Buy Black!
“Since 2011, we have recycled
over $700,000 to Black owned businesses
and successfully connected
over 2000 BOBs with 2,000,000
online customers” Said Uhuru.
F A S T
Hours
(Mon—Sat)
9 am - 8 pm
(Sun)
9 am - 5 pm
For details go to
TheBlackMall.com.
The African-
American economy
is "anemic and
lacks muscle because
don't record
our transactions,"
e xp lained Dr.
Charles Moses,
dean of business at
University of San
Francisco during
the opening program
of National
Black Business
Month.
"When you see
the millions of
trades on exchanges, they're making
a record of transactions which is
intended to engender trust," said
Moses. "Because we don't track the
hundreds of thousands of economic
We Buy
&
Sell
used
Cars &
Tires
D E P E N D A B L E
interactions between ourselves each
day, we think nothing's happening."
National Black Business Month
has been designed to create a regimen
of trust which can transform
black communities globally. Ways
31Days encourages visiting at least
one black business each day as
guided by this site. It is in dialogue
with a group of decision-makers in
Los Angeles where the black population
exceeds 1 million, but is not
sharing in the area prosperity. Each
of 18 states and 10 metropolitan
areas with more than 1 million
blacks, we’re give policy makers a
guidepost for achieving Our10Plan
by 2020.
The objective is to raise the share
of GDP received by African-
Americans from six percent to 10
percent. The strategy is to change
conditions city by city, state by state
using best practices for economic
development.
There are over 2 million African
American owned businesses in the
U.S., according to the Census Bureau.
124,000 of them are classified
as 'employer firms' Chicago trails
only New York in the number of
black-owned businesses, according
to census data. Chicago was home
to more than 58,600 such businesses
in 2007. New York had nearly
155,000 black-owned businesses,
while Houston had roughly 33,000
and Detroit had almost 32,500.
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businesses so fast, during the same
time Black businesses were declining;
for one, in 1990 to benefit the
U.S. economy Congress created the
EB-5 program inciting investments
from foreign investors in underserved
communities.
Under the program, each foreigner
investor pays the U.S. $1
million and is required to demonstrate
that at least 10 new jobs (not
necessary from the community that
is undeserved) were created or
saved as a result of the EB-5 investment,
The standard minimum investment
amount has increased to
$1.8 million (from $1 million) to
account for inflation. The minimum
investment in a Targeted Employment
Areas (TEA)has increased to
$900,000 (from $500,000) to account
for inflation.
The $900,000 if the funds are
invested in certain high -
unemployment or rural areas.
USCIS reserves about 10,000
visas for EB-5 investors each fiscal
year. There was a drastic increase
in the number of EB-5 program
participants since 2011.
Who's doing business in the
neighborhood? | Black communities
are often stereotyped as consumer
wastelands, but immigrants and first
-time entrepreneurs have tapped
unmet needs in the neighborhoods.
Dr. Webb Evans is the most
prominent and long time advocate
for Black businesses. He was most
known as “Mr. Buy Black” due to
his daily efforts getting people to
“Buy Black” as a method to get
Blacks off the economic bottom. He
states that “anybody can come to
this country and within a short time
they are doing better than Black
African Americans.”
There are currently 792 USCISapproved
EB-5 Regional Centers
as of Jan. 15, 2020 in operation
across the United States, with more
being approved regularly. This is a
sharp increase from the 27 regional
centers that operated in 2008.
Along with EB– 5 the cultural
and consumer-buying patterns have
changed. Larger, mainstream companies
market products to black
consumers, are less likely to look
solely at black-owned companies
for their needs. Making it harder for
a black entrepreneur to market products
or services primarily to blacks
and achieve success.
Yes, you can buy your way into
U.S. citizenship. ... It's known as the
“million dollar green card,” a visa
program that gives wealthy people
the ability to move to the United
States by creating economic opportunities
and employment there
The revision will also change how
areas of high unemployment, known
as , are defined. Currently, each
state can designate census tracts that
qualify as TEAs to attract foreign
investment. The revision removes
that authority, leaving it solely with
the USCIS. The new rules also
make it harder to designate urban
neighborhoods—where some of the
most sought after investment opportunities
lie—as TEAs.
In return the EB-5 investors receive
a conditional visa that is valid
for two years. In order to receive a
permanent visa, these investors
must demonstrate that the legally
required economic benefits flowing
from their investments have been
achieved.
the EB-5 visa program affords
foreign nationals and their spouses
and unmarried children under age
21 the ability to obtain a U.S. visa
based solely upon a minimum investment
in a for-profit enterprise
that creates or retains a specified
number of jobs.
EB-5 Remains a Viable Option
for Immigration Despite Trump
Visa Ban
Despite two Presidential Proclamations
drastically limiting the
availability of visas to the United
States, the EB-5 visa remains one of
the few categories of immigrant visa
presently available for individuals
wishing to immigrate to the United
States.
A Presidential Proclamation on
April 22, 2019 was issued by the
White House limiting the availability
of immigrant visas and ordering
the Department of State to cease
issuing such visas for all immigrant
visa categories other than for
spouses and children of U.S. Citizens;
physicians, nurses, and other
health care professionals involved
in treating or research related to
Covid-19; members of the U.S.
Armed Forces and their spouses and
children; The EB-5 visa category is
the only broadly available employment-
based visa category to receive
a blanket exemption.
The EB-5 program is supported
by mayors and local economic development
officials who see the
value of the program first-hand. At
the same
time in the last thirty
years also have brought the wholesale
collapse of black-owned independent
businesses and financial
institutions that once anchored
black communities across the country.
Over the same period
and growth of EB-5, tens
of thousands of blackowned
retail establishments
and local service
companies also have disappeared,
having gone out of
business or been acquired by larger
companies. Reflecting these developments,
working-age black Americans
have become far less likely to
be their own boss than in the 1990s.
The per capita number of black
employers, for example, declined by
some 12 percent just between 1997
and 2014.
U.S. financial institutions made
$382.5 million in Small Business
Administration loans to blackowned
businesses in the fiscal year
ended Sept. 30, according to an
analysis of the agency's data by The
Wall Street Journal. Black borrowers
received 1.7% of the $23.09
billion in total SBA loans.
The percentage is down sharply
from 8.2% of overall SBA loan
volume in fiscal 2008. By number
of loans, black-owned small businesses
got 2.3% of the federal
agency's roughly 54,000 loans last
year, down from 11% in 2008.
The declines among black smallbusiness
owners are unusually steep
compared with other minorities.
After the crisis hit, Asians and Hispanics
also got a smaller percentage
of total SBA loan volume, the
analysis shows. But those two percentages
shrank less from their precise
peak—or have grown faster as
the crisis recedes and the U.S. economy
gains more traction.
An estimated 7% of U.S. business
owners are black, up from 6.2% in
2007, according to the SBA's Office
of Advocacy. It says the rise isn't
statistically significant. About 10%
of U.S. business owners are Hispanic.
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Partnership with your project or business
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Our participation is not only business, but the
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Dearborn Homes for a Grocery Store (Page 1).
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Chicago Street Journal
Roland Davis,
Askrodavis@gmail.com
The Industrial Property at 2711 S State St, is looked upon a prime location for the store. The building
is up for sale or lease with 11,000 square feet.
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detailing—stone quoins, triangular ball
-topped gables and metal porches to
give the original plain brick a neo-
Georgian appearance, and has installed
its first resident computer center there
(once Don’s Food Mart). Wallace also
said “We have wanted a store to serve
the tenants since Don’s Food Mart
closed. This is a golden opportunity to
raise the standard of living for the residents
which will in return for all Chicagoans.”
Dearborn Homes is
considered a ‘Food
Desert’ based on the
low-income tracts
proportion of the
population has low
access to supermarkets
or large grocery
stores. Low-income
tracts are characterized
by either a poverty
rate equal to or
greater than 20 percent.
Black Wall Street Chicago (BWSC),
revisited the residences desire after
29th street was proposed as an honorary
name for Don Carter, by outreaching
to various groups for support,
which has gain great interest from the
west and south sides of Chicago with
potential investors.
Communications to CHA, Mayor
Lori Lightfoot and Alderman Pat
Dowell (3rd) Ward has been outreached
to with no direct response.
However, Fanzine
Washington, a Commission
of CHA and
Chair of the Central
Advisor Council
(CAC) has indicated
she supports the initiative.
Ron Carter, Chair
of BWSC and publisher
of CSJ, said
Carol Wallace
Dearborn Homes
Chair LAC
Ron Carter, Chair,
Black Wall Street
Chicago
Mayor Lightfoot
Chicago’s INVEST
South/West is a well
investment initiative
to support Dearborn
Homes residents as
part of her key development
plans on
the South and West
Sides of Chicago
and for what she
said to address communities
that have been left out and
underserved in Chicago.
It has been conveyed in the interest
and of CHA in light of the Dearborn
Homes community falls in the scope of
the Department of Housing and Urban
Development Section 3 funding of
business ownership. The announcement
also comes in August National Black
Business Month and the challenge
ahead to secure and increase Black
businesses as the Mayor’s INVEST
South/West goals states.
“Mayor Lightfoot IN-
VEST South/West is a
well investment initiative
to support Dearborn
Homes residents as part
of her key development
plans on the South and
West Sides of Chicago.”
An ad hoc support group has been
formed by BWSC called the Dearborn
Associates for a Grocery Store (DAGS)
consist of The Black Mall, National
Block Club University, Bronzeville
Visitors and Conventions, Ujima, Inc.,
St. Paul Church of God in Christ and
State Senator Mattie Hunter. In addition,
support from former residents of
Dearborn Homes and the Carter-
Mitchell Family of Don Carter.
Harold Lucas of Bronzeville Tourism
and Visitors Convention says this
announcement is fitting for the
BMC&TC Collaborative Proposal that
will briskly spin throughout Bronzeville
and the broader Black Metropolis
National Heritage Area” Lucas
added. “Residents of Dearborn at last
would have a major stake in the jobs
and economic stability of public housing.”
Darnell Maxie, a community resident
of Dearborn Homes said, “Why
not have a store for Dearborn Homes
like there are available for most highrise
residential buildings in the Loop
area?”
Just north of Dearborn Homes, the
former Ickes CHA will be the
Southbridge a new development at
22nd and State Street that is planned to
provide approximately 877 residential
units across income levels, with retail
and grocery store.
The Chicago Reporter reported,
despite an increase in the total number
of supermarkets in Chicago, food deserts
and food inequity persist. For
example, African Americans make up
approximately one third of Chicago’s
population, but almost 80 percent of
the population of persistently low or
volatile food access areas.
The report continued saying most
of the new supermarkets were added in
and around food oasis or areas with
plentiful supermarket
access. These high access
areas are enriched with a
variety of
stores, instead
of just one to
serve all
needs.
DAG supporter,
Randoff
Norris of
Sirron. said,
“We can realize
the goal is
to rechanneling African
Americans resources of a least $.30 on
a dollar among their own communities
with such a business project.”
The proposed Dearborn homes
store can cater to a wide and specific
range of resident's continuous conveniences
said Norris. “It is expected to
hold a market share of barely any and
Randolph
"Dolphn" Norris,
Sirron Inc
really no competition. “We are involved
not only because of Dearborn
Homes but a channel for all Chicago to
enhance. This includes supporting African-American
business owners and job
creation for the residents.”
Norris said, "Entrepreneurship is
important for the community and for
the youth to see what they can do as
displayed on 35th and State of the
Black Wall Street monument.”
“The solution is community-owned
Market/Educational Centers that consist
of learning and practicing the concepts
of building where you live, growing
what you eat, manufacturing what
you consume, and purchasing where
you own.”
Don’s Food Mart operated from the
early 1970’s until the late 1990’s. Don
and his brother William Carter had
established a great rapport with the
residents of the Dearborn Homes community.
Not only provided the grocery,
they served as leaders and structured
development for the youths in the community
by funding and sponsoring
three teams known as: The Unknown
Wild Bunch, Chosen Few and Hoopsquad
with uniforms, mentored and
encouraged them. Part reason why it is
proposed to give 29th Street an honorary
name of Don Carter Way (State to
Federal), initiated by his widow Gloria
Cummings-Carter.
The potential owner (not wanting to
be identified now) said, it is estimated
that for the identified location at 2711
S. State Street would have to raise over
$1 million for the store. With many
funding options he assured it can be
done. Stressing it to be of such a highquality
store that people from other
neighborhoods would want it in the
areas as well.
Senator Mattie Hunter, whose office
is a block away from Dearborn Homes
gave support for the store saying, “If
we are serious about combating inequities
in the wake of George Floyd, we
can fight for justice beyond just police
brutality.
We can work toward fairness by
reinvesting in our communities
that need it most – and adding a
grocery store in the middle of a
food desert (Dearborn Homes) is
a clear starting point.”
She went on to say, “Any plan
that brings in revenue and justice
to our neighborhoods. Our communities
deserve access to
healthy foods and deserve the
option to shop without having to
travel miles out the way. They
deserve ‘Better’.
Let’s give them
‘Better’.”
Ms. Wallace
indicated that
there will be
meetings of some
sort virtual and in
the future meetings
with the
residents to se-
Sen. Mattie Hunter
cure what they would expect of the
grocery store.
Chicago Street Journal August 20—September 2, 2020 Page 17
August National Black Business Month: Garvey, Fuller and Evans
AUGUST is National Black Business
Month its fitting during this
time pause to ask the Black
community to stop and recognize
three of many tremendous
pioneers of Black Business development;:
Marcus Garvey, SB Fuller
and Dr. Webb Evans..
Marcus Garvey
and the Universal Negro Improvement
Association form a critical
link in black America's centurieslong
struggle for freedom, justice,
and equality. As the leader of the
largest organized mass movement in
black history and progenitor of the
modern "black is beautiful" ideal,
Garvey in his own time was hailed
as a redeemer, a "Black Moses."
Though he failed to realize all his
objectives, his movement still represents
a liberation from the psychological
bondage of racial inferiority.
Garvey was born on August 17,
1887 in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica. In
1916 he came to America at Booker
T. Washington's invitation, but
arrived just after Washington died.
When he settled in New York City,
he organized a chapter of the
U.N.I.A., which he had earlier
founded in Jamaica. Drawing on a
gift for oratory, he create a new
gospel of racial pride. "Garveyism"
eventually evolved into a religion of
success, inspiring millions of black
people worldwide who sought relief
from racism and colonialism.
The U.N.I.A. incorporated the
Black Star Line in 1919. The line's
flagship, the "S. S. Yarmouth,"
made its maiden voyage in November
and two other ships joined the
line in 1920. The Black Star Line
became a powerful recruiting tool
for the U.N.I.A., but it was ultimately
sunk by expensive repairs,
discontented crews, and top-level
mismanagement and corruption.
By 1920 the U.N.I.A. had hundreds
of chapters worldwide; it
hosted elaborate international conventions
and published The Negro
World, a widely disseminated
weekly. Over the next few years,
however, the movement began to
unravel under the strains of internal
dissension, opposition from black
critics, and government harassment.
In 1922 the federal government
indicted Garvey on mail fraud
charges stemming from Black Star
Line promotional claims and he
suspended all BSL operations. Two
years later, the U.N.I.A. created
another line, the Black Cross Navigation
and Trading Co., but it, too,
failed. Garvey was sentenced to
prison. The government later commuted
his sentence, only to deport
him back to Jamaica in November
1927.
He remained a keen observer of
world events, writing voluminously
in his own papers. His final move
was to London, in 1935. In his last
years he slid into such obscurity that
he suffered the final indignity of
reading his own obituaries a month
before his June 10, 1940 death.
Company: Fuller Products Company.
Founder/President S B Fuller.
Industry: Cosmetics.
S.B. Fuller grew
up in poverty in Louisiana and as a
young man he began working as a
door-to-door salesman. With only a
sixth grade education, he possessed
great drive and a belief in his abilities
which would helped him over
came virtually every obstacle placed
in his path by racial discrimination.
He became a sales leader in the
cosmetics field. He started his first
cosmetics company, the Fuller
Products Company, in 1935, with
$25. He eventually owned or controlled
eight other companies, including
the Courier newspaper
chain which had newspapers in
Pittsburgh, Chicago, New York and
Detroit, a department store, and a
real estate trust.
In a 1963 speech delivered to the
National Association of Manufacturers
(of which he was the first
black member), Fuller stated that
blacks would achieve success and
prosperity if they worked harder
and attained good educations, and
showed more initiative in business
enterprise. He claimed that blacks
were left behind economically because
"they have nothing to sell."
In Napoleon Hill's book,
"Success with a positive mental
attitude" he quoted from Mr. Fuller
what his mother told him as a young
man, "the reason we are poor is not
because of God. We are poor because
father never developed a desire
to become rich. No one
in our family never developed
a desire to be anything
else."
DR. WEBB
EVANS (Mr.
B u y B l a c k )
On the Inaugural 14th year
Anniversary of The National
Black Business
Month from August 1st to
31st Dr. Evans.
Dr. Webb Evans is the
Founder & Past President of
the United American Progress
Association. The organization
works 365 days per year getting
people to spend their money with
the business people who live in the
Black community.
Most people know him as "Mr.
Buy Black" due to his daily efforts
getting people to "Buy Black" as a
method to get Blacks off the Economic
bottom. He states that
"anybody can come to this country
and within a short time they are
doing better than Black African
Americans."
Dr Evan is recognized by Resolution
HR0608, 99th GENERAL
ASSEMBLY of the State of Illinois;
submitted by State Rep. LaShawn
K . F o r d ( 8 t h D i s t r i c t ) .
This in honor of Rev. Dr. Webb
Evans, (Nov.20, 1913-Feb.23,
2015), founder of United American
Progress Association (1961).
Rep. Ford “We are acknowledging
his work and contribution for
The National Buy Black Business
Month during the month of August.
Gangs
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arriving in 2011.
So the contact-card system was
now a street-sweeping tool, Montgomery
says. “It morphed into a
monster.”
A survey of 1,200 randomly selected
Chicago residents last year.
The survey found that 38 percent of
young white males reported being
s t o p p e d b y
police in the previous 12 months, he
says. For young African-American
males, the figure was 68 percent.
Former CPD Lt. Ronald Forgue,
who left the department last summer,
became familiar with these
stops as both a cop and parent. “My
k i d s a r e b i r a c i a l —
black, Hispanic — and they’ve been
stopped many times,” says Forgue,
who lives in a diverse South Side
neighborhood. He says officers
f i l l i n g o u t a c o n t a c t
card mislabeled one of his sons a
gang member.
Most gang members brandish
illegal weapons as seen in many of
the rap and Chicago street gangs
posted videos. The Sun-Times has
counted 106 homicides throughout
Chicago in July 2020 and a total of
430 for the year through the end of
July. So far this year, murders are
up 51% compared to the period
from January through July 2019,
along with a 47% increase in shootings,
police said. Jul 31, 2020
Countdown of the Top 30 Cities
in the U.S. with the Highest
Murder Rates – 2020. The murder
capital of America isn't Chicago,
but it is in Illinois for the second
straight year. With nearly one murder
per 1,000 residents, this year's
murder capital is East St. Jan 2,
2020.
“This cycle of violence in Chicago
needs to end,” Brown said. “It
ends when someone who has been
hurt doesn’t reach for a gun. It ends
when instead someone calls our
detectives, gives them a tip that
might break a case open so we can
hold people accountable in the
criminal justice system.”
Page 18 August 20—September 2, 2020
Chicago Street Journal
Review: In Chicago, a team of Black
rowers reunites to inspire community
In the late 1990s on the West Side of Chicago,
sirens, gunshots and screams were the soundtrack
of the night. For a kid growing up there,
nobody asked, “What college are you going to
attend?” It was “what gang are you going to
join?”
The documentary “A Most Beautiful Thing,”
written and directed by Mary Mazzio ("I Am
Jane Doe"), shares the unlikely story of a
group of young men from those very streets
who joined together to form the first all-
African American high school rowing team.
When Arshay Cooper, Alvin Ross, Preston
Grandberry, Malcolm Hawkins, Ray “Pookie
G." Hawkins and several classmates at Manley
High School signed up to row — free
pizza was the incentive — they had little idea
what awaited them. Ken Alpart, a young
white man who had rowed at Penn, recruited
the group as a way of introducing the traditionally
upper-class sport of crew to inner-city
youths and provided training and equipment.
Other coaches joined the cause as the young
men, a few of whom had never been on water,
sweated in the gym and learned the finer
points of rowing — sometimes painfully.
The group formed a tight brotherhood, bonding
over the hard work and taking pride in
their accomplishments. The activity proved a
respite from the dangers in their daily lives,
several of them going home to drug-addicted
mothers and abusive — or absent — fathers.
The experiment ended after one long racing
season in which the Manley crew competed
three times — including the Chicago Sprints
Regatta — with varying outcomes. At the
time, Alpart thought the venture had failed,
but the team members remember it differently
and fondly.
They credit Alpart with introducing them to
more than just a sport. They learned leadership,
studied entrepreneurship and discovered
the value of their efforts. They saw they had
choices. Some would go on to own businesses,
and Grandberry earned his barber’s
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Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and the
Department of Cultural Affairs and
Special Events (DCASE) announced
today new and reimagined
Jazz and World Music events as
part of the Year of Chicago Music –
now extended into 2021.
“Music has long been our universal
language and the common
thread that ties people together
across culture, time, and now, more
than ever, physical distance,” said
Mayor Lightfoot. “These creative
renditions of this year's Jazz and
World Music events will provide
ways for people to enjoy the spirit
of a Chicago festival season while
prioritizing health and safety. As
the birthplace of Gospel and House
music, electric Blues and modern
Jazz, Chicago’s sounds and melodies
reflect the diversity and dynamism
of the people and communities
we all call home.”
Millennium Park at Home: Chicago
Jazz and the Virtual World
Music Festival are part of a robust
calendar of virtual events honoring
many of Chicago’s beloved festivals
that were canceled in response
to the coronavirus pandemic to
protect the health and safety of
residents and visitors. Additionally,
while Millennium Park remains
open and Chicago City Markets
continue this fall – permitted special
events are canceled and the
Chicago Cultural Center will remain
closed through the end of this
year as part of the City’s comprehensive
COVID-19 response plan.
The “Millennium Park at Home:
Chicago Jazz” series will offer four
days of free, virtual performances
programmed with the Jazz Institute
of Chicago over Labor Day Weekend
starting Thursday, September 3
through Sunday, September 6 from
4-8 pm. Millennium Park at Home:
Black rowers
Chicago Jazz will feature top local
and national Jazz artists and include
special performances by Chicago
artists Tito Carillo and Rempis,
Reid, Abrams (September 3), Victor
Garcia and Bobby Broom
(September 4), Reggie Thomas and
Marlene Rosenberg (September 5),
and Twin Talk and Bethany Pickens
(September 6). Each evening will
also showcase the NextGenJazz
emerging artist series, highlights
from the Chicago Jazz
Festival archives, and
performances co-presented
with local music organizations
and filmed at music
venues. This program is
made possible with support
from Millennium Park
Foundation, Chicago
Community Trust, 90.9fm
WDCB Public Radio and
Chicago Transit Authority (CTA).
For the complete lineup and details,
visit MillenniumPark.org.
The reimagined “Virtual World
Music Festival Chicago” will offer
a series of free concerts featuring
artists from across the globe each
Sunday in September from 1-3 pm.
Highlights include the annual celebration
of Indian classical music,
Ragamala: A Centennial Tribute to
Ravi Shankar (September 6) recorded
at the Chicago Cultural Center
and co-curated with People of
Rhythm; Afro-Diáspora y Folklore
(September 13) recorded and cocurated
with Segundo Ruiz Belvis
Cultural Center; the Chicago-based
traditional Irish supergroup Anam
Mór (September 20) recorded at
and co-curated with Martyrs’, and
the Chicago Immigrant Orchestra
(September 27) recorded at Epiphany
Center for the Arts and coconducted
by Fareed Haque and
Wanees Zarour. This program is
supported in part by an award from
the National Endowment for the
Arts (NEA) and is sponsored by the
Chicago Transit Authority
(CTA). For the complete lineup and
details, visit WorldMusicFestival-
Chicago.org.
Both virtual concert series will
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ChicagoDCASE and follow a busy
summer season of more than 150
new and reimagined DCASE events
that included many other virtual
concerts, at-home
dance parties, drive-in
movies, farmers markets,
and 21 community
meals for frontline
workers.
\“During these Years
of Chicago Music,
DCASE and our partners
are committed to
showcasing and lifting
up the incredible musicians, organizations,
and venues that comprise
our diverse and legendary music
scene,” said Mark Kelly, Commissioner
of DCASE. “While celebrating
Chicago’s rich music legacy,
we will also welcome artists from
across the globe virtually, because
music has the power to unite us.”
Additionally, a new fall series of
hybrid in-person/virtual events
showcasing Chicago musicians at
neighborhood clubs and music venues
will be announced soon.
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license, but they still faced the challenges
of now being adults in a
tough neighborhood. They didn't
always make the right choices.
Twenty years later, one of their
coaches, Michael O’Gorman, died
of a heart attack. O’Gorman may
have been insensitive — one of the
rowers takes “the 5th” on the subject
— but he was respected, and
the team gathered for his funeral.
Later, documentary crew in tow,
Cooper convened them at
Grandberry’s shop to ask about
getting the band back together.
“I ain’t seen you guys in what, 80
pounds ago?” Cooper jokes as
memories flow and the friends
agree to get back out on the water.
For some, it’s a chance to settle
unfinished business, for others, it's
redemption. For all, it’s an opportunity
to give back to the community
and show their own kids what it’s
like to do the unthinkable.
Arshay Cooper during the filming
of the documentary "A Most Beautiful
Thing." (Richard Schultz/50
Eggs Films)
Thicker in the middle and thinner
Arshay Cooper during the filming of the documentary "A Most Beautiful
Thing." (Richard Schultz/50 Eggs Films)
on top, the men settle back into the
business of training, even traveling
to the Bay Area to work with U.S.
Olympic rower and coach Mike
Teti, who good-naturedly wonders
if they’ll all still fit in the boat.
A builder of bridges, Cooper ups
the ante, inviting a group of white
Chicago police officers to train with
them as they prepare a return to the
Chicago Sprints. Not all the Manley
alumni are pleased at first, but they
soon realize the symbolism as they
strive to positively affect the community.
Mazzio, a 1992 Olympic rower
herself, nicely captures the beauty
of rowing, including the calming
sense of peace the water gives team
members when they first go out and
then experience again two decades
later. An evocative hip-hop score,
poetic narration by Common and
crisp graphics appropriately underline
the timeliness of the film.
The documentary, based on Cooper's
self-published memoir (he
connected with Mazzio on Twitter
after she'd read it), illustrates the
differences that can be made
through the efforts of a few and
draws attention to the high levels of
trauma experienced by residents in
our poorest neighborhoods. Imagine
the systemic changes that can be
wrought if the will of the many is
used to achieve them.
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[Common] said that for a minute, then he continued to say
it [the N-word] because at the end of the day, it's what
feeds the purse."
As the years go on, hip hop has become ever more omnipresent
in the music industry. With the rapid proliferation
of fans of the genre, the N-word has made its way back
into the national spotlight.
Black people have hurled the infamous word for nearly
as long as white folk have. In the past the elders would
sweep the youth to the side to explain its history. And
talked about how slave owners used the word in a derogatory
fashion, treating their property as less than human, and
how the word continued to linger for the years to come.
Many made it a conscious point to never, ever say it.
When this tale collides with reality, it shatters as a misreading
of history — the current use of the word is owed
less to white folk calling black folk “nigger” and more to
black folk who say they are niggers and said so.
This kind of indiscriminate of the word is associated
with violence that continues to occur, as Chicago has witness
is highest year of youth killing youth. As where 15
people were gunned down outside of a funeral in Chicago,
and babies being shoot, is the thought by each trigger released
is a Nigger Bullet, with no humanity for life.
African-American youth are roughly six times as likely
as white Americans to die at the hands of a murderer, and
roughly seven times as likely to murder someone; their
victims are black 82% of the time. Homicide is the second
most important reason for the racial gap in life expectancy:
Black homicide offenders don’t kill people because they
have dark skin, like a Klan member would. This may seem
obvious, and yet the myth of black-on-black crime persists.
One youth points out, “We go where the business is and
where the man ain’t looking. Can you see me going up to
Deerfield, black as I am, trying to stick up? The man would
be on me so fast I couldn’t get a chewing gum wrapper.
Any way, he don’t care if niggers get ripped off. But you
can bet he’s watching his ‘thang’ back in his own ‘hood.’
In 2015, Washington Post contributor Michael Tesler
wrote an op-ed titled, "Using the n-word is more common
than you (or President Obama) may think." Tesler
mentions how he "asked a nationally representative sample
of 1,000 participants in the 2012 Cooperative
Congressional Election Study, or CCES, how often they
had used the n-word over the past five years." Notably,
almost one-third of whites reported using the N-word at
least "once or twice" during the time period in question.
Just as Caucasians are not white, but pink (as the native
Americans say ‘Pale Face’, and African Americans
are not really black but shades of brown.
However ‘Nigger’ is referred to as Black.
Many answers address why the use of the N Word. But
is has become a culture of acceptance, just as killing has
today.
Ultimately, white allies look on and commit themselves to
decrying the supposedly wounding act. “Why can’t we use
it if they do?” It isn’t rocket science to understand that
words can have more than one meaning, and a sensible rule
is that blacks can use the word but whites can’t.
After years of habitual use of “nigger,” White folks indoctrinated
the music to Nigger and drugs and killings to
accepting their supposed inferiority so well they don’t have
to use it outward any more. The success of mental terrorism,
and no word conveyed the depth of this internalized
oppression more than “nigger.”
As a black person in America, having so many limits at
every turn…being able to say the N-word gives black people
just one small bit of power. And at the same time, the
sole authors of their own devastation, a racial selfimage;
even when pulling the trigger of a gun.
The uncomfortable truth must be confronted: It's one
thing to ban a word because it is a pitiless slur often used,
however the old saying my Malcolm X, “who taught you to
hate self’ to physical violence.
As children are truly powerful beings with limitless
potential. It's time that the messages they receive reinforce
that. Quite a few to point to. Why not strength in
achievements in the Culture of what they think of each
other?
Sen. Harris Biden’s VP
(Continued from page 4)
Harris a “terrific” pick, while
Hillary Clinton, tweeted that Harris
“already proved herself to be
an incredible public servant and
leader. So, I know she’ll be a
strong partner to Joe Biden.
Please join me in having her back
and getting her elected.”
It may be too soon to say
whether Biden will win in November,
but it will be a clear path
for Harris to easily become the
nation’s 46th president.
Story in parts by POLITICO
(Continued from page 9)
and residents. The struggle in the African American
communities in Chicago is about losing control of the
land. A people that don’t have control of its land are a
people without a home. Local long-term business owners
have not been respected for their more than 50 years of
service to the Roseland Michigan Ave. Misuse and divestment
of any community development assets and
equity created to build the wealth of distressed communities
is the root cause of socioeconomic decay.
To reverse the diminishing wealth within Black Chicago
communities requires strict accountability, redress
and economic restoration. Since 2017 research and continued
major reports on the growing wealth gap in the
African American families, determined it will take African
Americans 228 years to bridge the gap and 83 years
for Hispanic families!
Roseland Business Development Council invites, and
encourages, all local businesses participation. RBDC’s
membership, however, consists of all Black owned businesses
in Roseland supported by its membership and
community support of their Annual Banquet.