Obama Foundation announces new public library branch
The Obama Foundation announced Tuesday that it has formally partnered with the city of Chicago and Chicago Public Library to place a new branch at the Obama Presidential Center in...
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For family of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, hopes that renewed interest translates into a monument
From her base on the South Side, Ida B. Wells-Barnett crusaded against the racist lynching of black men, pushed for women's right to vote and started numerous organizations to help...
South Side Obama center activists removed after disrupting Plan Commission meeting
South Side activists who are pushing for a contract guaranteeing certain amenities when the Obama Presidential Center is built disrupted the Chicago Plan Commission meeting Thursday morning and were escorted...
Two Chicago civic innovators have been chosen to serve as Obama Fellows in the inaugural class
More than a decade ago, while interning for a voting rights hotline, Tiana Epps-Johnson expected to field calls about voter intimidation or deceptive practices at voting precincts. Instead, she was...
Obama Foundation relies on repeat donors in first quarter
The Obama Foundation saw its largest donations so far this year come from repeat contributors who pledged to give even more money toward the organization's vision, records show. The Crown...
Kwame Raoul tops ex-Gov. Quinn in Democratic attorney general race; Harold wins for GOP
State Sen. Kwame Raoul on Tuesday edged former Gov. Pat Quinn and outpaced six other candidates in a crowded campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for Illinois attorney general. With...
Representation matters: Black doctor decided to pursue medicine after he met his mother’s doctor as a boy
The first time Pierre Johnson met a black physician, he was 9 years old. He accompanied his pregnant mother to see her gynecologist, who happened to be African-American. When Johnson...
Guidebook maps the legacy of black women on Chicago’s South Side
With its boarded-up windows and rusting wrought-iron fence, the abandoned three-story mansion in the 4700 block of South King Drive doesn’t look historically significant. But in the 1930s, the elegant...
Obama Foundation announces new scholarships to groom leaders
A day after former President Barack Obama returned to Chicago and told hundreds at a public meeting that he wants his South Side center to help train the next generation...
Obama makes pitch for his center in Jackson Park: ‘Too much development’ has not been the problem for South Side
Former President Barack Obama came to Chicago on Tuesday to again make the case for building his presidential center in Jackson Park, telling hundreds of people gathered at McCormick Place...