1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (819+ words) The announcement came 11 days after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and a White House Domestic Policy Council official warned the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents that those federal agencies “cannot in good conscience continue to support” the institution “under current leadership,” according…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (941+ words) There may be a major job opening soon for president and CEO at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. One potential candidate the Board of Trustees should pursue and interview is Lonnie Bunch III, the nation’s first Black…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (303+ words) The world that we live in today is morphing in such a manner that it challenges belief in GOD. In the United States, things are moving especially fast in the wrong directions, and this is having an impact all around…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (563+ words) Civil rights leaders are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s effort to impose new federal restrictions on mail-in voting after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for portions of his executive order to move forward while legal challenges continue....

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (641+ words) Thousands of Chicago children with disabilities and low-income families could be affected by Trump administration plans to restructure federal oversight of special education and rewrite longstanding standards governing Head Start. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois raised concerns during an August…...