Who is really behind the protest.

February 26, 2016 Page 1
Vol. 21 No. 1 February 26, 2016
What's is Really Behind
Police in Black History
has continued to
reflect the tragic consequences
for African
America’s since slavery
of the law as a tool
to oppress; from the
civil rights marches,
the forming of the
Black Panther Party
of Self Defense in
1966, and today urban
communities have
become impossible to
ignore as protests'
continue addressing
police
misconduct
even to:
Chicago
Police Officer
Kills Young
Man and then
Sues
for "Making" Him
(the Officer) Kill Him.
"That's a new low
even for the Chicago
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the Protest
Tens of thousands of black people since the 1866 birth
of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tenn. have been
lynched, burned alive, beaten to death and mutilated by
whites. The 1980 riots in Miami's "Liberty City" and the
1992 L.A. riots involving the Rodney King verdict were
again expressed in Ferguson, Mo. Pay attention to this
history of brutality and criminalization of
the humanity of black people and law enforcement.
Educating Chicago youth
continues to be a blame
game as the governor, the
mayor, teacher union and
the public go at it-
AS Chicago Public Schools
has announced the layoff of
62 employees, 17 of them
teachers, citing its efforts
to stabilize its finances by eliminating $85
million from school budgets; Mayor Rahm
Emanuel’s handpicked Board of Education is
set to meet to vote on whether or not to expanding
charter schools in neighborhoods.
CPS announcing the move,
the school district said those
laid off include 43 full-time
and 19 part-time employees.
Chicago schools CEO
Forrest Claypool says the fact
the cuts are needed is unfortunate
for the district's students,
principals and teachers.
In announcing the layoffs, school
officials pointed to the failure of Gov. Bruce
Rauner and the Legislature to come up with a
school funding plan. They come as the school
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Frank Otton
Can history repeat itself as it once was for
black businesses, as Black Wall Street Chicago
switch its Summit operations to the districts.
August 2009 a ribbon-cutting and dedication
of 75th Street, east of the Dan Ryan was cele-
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CSJ photos by Parthenia Luke
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Rahm
Emanuel's
CHA?
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By Donnell Robinson
Staff Writer
On Dr. Martin Luther King Day January 17,
2016, Street organizations (gangs) from across
the city, and from out of town met to address
their stake in the community and work together:
Organized by People Organizing Peace Systems
(POPS) Movement lead by Hest Aden from
Atlanta, GA., members of the Disciples, Lords,
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Spike Lee’s
Chi-Raq
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43rd Street has be identified as one of the 15 Black Wall Street District
of Chicagoland. The Forum Building on 43rd and Calumet is a targeted
support project identified at the Black Wall Street Chicago Summit
XXVI, Once established the Forum can hold banquets over 2,000
attendees. Bernard Loyd is the owner in which seeking to secure
funding support.
By Lionel Nixon
On the corner of 35 th and State Street
stands a monument dedicated to the history
of Black Wall Street of Chicago during the
1920s up to the 1950’s, the strips included
35th, 43rd, 47, 51st, 55, 58, 61st and 63rd
streets. Presently there are only five black
businesses on East 35th Street, including
Seaway Bank, none in Lake Meadows.
In wallowing to the Bronzeville Black Wall
Streets, John W. Rogers Jr. founder of the
Ariel Investments painted a picture of blackowned
businesses and blacks in the business
world: “Boom Town? The State of Black
Business in Chicago,” reported by The
Chicago Maroon.
Rogers said Black businesses continue to
struggle for equal footing with “majority
owned,” or non-African-American businesses,
despite improvements in racial
relations.
According to the SBA's Office of an
estimated 7% of U.S. business owners are
black, up from 6.2% in 2007. It says the rise
isn't statistically significant. About 10% of
U.S. business owners are Hispanic.
There is only two Black-owned banks
remain in Chicago compared to seven twenty
years ago, Seaway Bank, and the oldest Illinois
Service Federal which is in need of a
rescue.
In spike of many success stories prominent
black business are raising unsettling
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