CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

Ignoring racial inequality does not eliminate it—true equality comes from acknowledging and addressing historical and ...

Kingdom of No TomorrowBy Fabienne JospahatAlgonquin Books/Hatchette Nettie Boileau had choices to make. Should she sign up with the revolution ...

The enthusiastic response to his music has been driven in part by the perception that he’s a political vessel. But what ...

After Trump was declared the winner over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, many politically engaged Black women said ...

To get it out of the way: Yes, Kendrick Lamar, on the Super Bowl halftime show stage, addressed Drake by name. He didn’t say ...

Kendrick Lamar’s year. It’s a familiar story for the Pulitzer-Prize winning rapper, who’s received dozens of accolades in his ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a complex man and an incredible leader, and it is important and instructive to reflect on his ...

Huey P. Newton, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland in the late 1960s, titled his 1973 autobiography ‘Revolutionary Suicide,’ by which he meant a ...

The critiques of figures like Garvey, Carmichael, Newton, and Baldwin remind us of historical patterns of resistance and ...

We have learned that to be Black in America is to be a living, breathing, logical end of a conspiracy. That’s why when I saw this video by Randi Bryant, a Tiktok essayist and DEI specialist who loves ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, radical Puerto Rican activist and civil rights icon, passed away on January 10, 2025. He was 76. Best ...