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Vol 21 No. 2 August 29, 2016
Frank Otton Featured Writer Another weekend, 55 shot, 9 killed. August has been identified as the 12th Annual National Black Business Month: However, in the City of Chicago the month of August received no or little attention in the media regarding Black business Month. Instead it is violence, crime, concerns over police misconduct in the African American community. In Chicago twenty five children were shot under the age of thirteen years old in 2016. Overall over 256 youth have been killed by Black youth. This year 2,760 people have been shot. In many cases gang and drug related according to the Chicago Police. Nationally 38.5 per cent of people arrested for murder,
manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault were Black, while they represent 16 per cent of the county’s population. Data reports also reveal that 93 percent of black victims are by other blacks.
Phil Smith noted, “It is a disease that is very contagious. We must find an anecdote to cure it for our lives sake. No one is safe here.” Given that people make choices in their life, rather to be tainted and pure or disobedience or sickening towards mankind; with the African American youth no other nationality of people is more violent among each other. And no nationality of people is less in their financial standing in the U.S.A. according to financial planner and real estate investor Guy Williams. He is noted saying the (Continued on page 16)
CTU responds to school budget, a Strike is not out Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will open on time this year. However, CPS won't open in the fall if state government fails to approve an education budget, CPS chief Forrest Claypool. "Chicago schools would not open, and I suspect most of the schools in the state would not open," Claypool said in a telephone inter-
view a day after divisions among Democrats who control the House and Senate prevented passage of a school funding plan before the end of the legislative session. At the same time a strike by the Chicago Teachers Union is not out of the park. Claypool presenting his lead to balancing the school with a $150 million deficit still has
Hosting as a anchor on the 69th Street Black Wall Street District is the Life Builders United Building, lead by Geraldine Smith and Dolphin Norris, located on the corner of 69th and Emerald The once business strip west of the Dan Ryan of 69th street has been identified as a Black Wall Street District, a plan to rejuvenate the business strip of the Englewood community. For the past three years Geraldine Smith and Dolphin Norris has been moving forward with purchasing the old Union building on 69th and Emerald. Their plan is to create business ventures and add streetscape improvements to the strips in hopes of luring other Black private investment and new development to the strip. The BWSD has been in works since 2015. Though no
former dedication or overall planning is in place, Norris contends "If we don't do it, someone else will." The Englewood community with the development of a Whole Foods at 63rd Street and Halsted Street, has been described as both a "socioeconomic experiment" and "one part of a solid strategy for economic growth and job creation." What's clear is that the symbolic and transformative power invested in this store, set to open this October and anchor a $10 million retail (Continued on page 15)
odds with CTU with teachers pay, class room issues and pension of teachers. A strike is not out of the picture according to Karen Lewis president of the CTU. CTU released a report detailing the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by Chicago Public Schools (CPS) on privatized ser-
Donnell Robinson Staff Writer Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump, one will be the next president of the U.S. “So, who should voters give their support to in 2016?” ask Lucius Gantt of The Gantt Report, addressing ‘The ballot or the beat down’. “Should they cast their ballots for Heckle or Jeckle, for Tweedledum or Tweedledee or for Popeye or Olive Oyl? Both parties know that 90 percent of the Black vote normally will go to the Democratic nominee. However, in the battle between Trump and Clinton, Trump lands in the low single digits of support from Black Americans. In some polls, he has received 0 percent support, a negligible amount. In one recent
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survey, he got 2 percent support. Many say because Black elected officials are normally democrats which leads to the Republican Party to write off the Black vote. Many Democratic Party Black leaders such as Jesse Jackson speaking before the Democratic convention, “Hillary can be trusted to appoint a fair Supreme Court, and a skilled administration, including a man of faith like Senator Tim Kaine.” “Hillary will fight to make us more secure by banning assault weapons that are turning our communities into killing fields: over 2300 shot and 260 killed in Chicago alone this year!” Jackson continued to say, “We can trust Hillary to expand African trade and development. Fight for historically Black col(Continued on page 14)
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