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CAN TV Community Empowerment Show, Feb. 16th
Please tune into the weekly West Garfield Park Community Stakeholders television show on CAN TV 21. Fathers Who Care and the West Garfield Park Community Stakeholders 37th Ward Alderman and Committeewoman and the Chairman of the Black West Side Elected Officials How to Save our Children and our Community How to Create Social and Environmental Changes What is the State of Mental Health on the West Side?
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We need to demand President Trump's help in stopping this violence 2016 was a virtual bloodbath in Chicago. When you consider the city's dismal homicide rate, it is unfathomable that 784 people were killed and that the city was never declared a state of emergency. In fact, nearly 100 of those homicides came from the Austin community, the neighborhood where I have pastored for over 25 years. While Chicago may be America's epicenter of violence, Austin is its ground zero.
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Start on your Black History essay for the City Treasurer Each year the City Treasurer's Office sponsors a Black History Month Essay Competition. The winner of this competition will receive a $2,500 non-renewable scholarship to support the cost of attending the first year of college. The deadline for the essay competition, which is open to all CPS high school seniors, is Feb. 23.
Black workers blast company's hiring practices
Black Workers Matters protestors braved below freezing temperatures to send a message to plastics supplier and manufacturing company, Mercury Plastics, Inc.: Discriminatory hiring practices will not be tolerated on Chicago's West Side.
Where is the sanctuary for black men?
Sanctuary City. That's what Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proclaimed this city. So much so that he stood up to President Trump and basically declared he would defy federal law because of it. "To be clear about what Chicago is … it always will be a sanctuary city," he professed at a press conference held in November of last year. Doesn't the name "sanctuary" bring up images of safety? Welcoming? Inviting? Warmth? And most of all a religious connotation?
Could the 'grocery store of the future' land in Austin?
Thom Alcazar, the founder of Alcazar, Ltd., a consulting firm that provides expert knowledge in business automation, believes that he has a blockbuster idea on his hands and wants to deliver it to economically distressed communities like North Lawndale and Austin. It's called EATS Groceries, and if Alcazar and his team have their way, the store could be housed in the old Maywood Market building at the corner of 5th Ave. and Washington Blvd. within roughly a year's time after securing a deal.
County seeks more federal funding for anti-violence
The Cook County Board of Commissioners last Wednesday approved a resolution asking the federal government for more money to help reduce crime in Chicago. West Side Commissioner Richard Boykin drafted a resolution last month asking President Donald Trump to provide help, responding to Trump's threat, via a tweet, of sending the feds to Chicago to crack down on violence. Wednesday's hour-long debate, however, grew contentious as Boykin's resolution went down in a procedural vote.
Cop who killed LeGrier, Jones won't be charged
In a statement released on Feb. 10, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office announced that it would not file charges against Robert Rialmo, the Chicago Police officer who fatally shot Quintonio LeGrier, 17, and Bettie Jones, [55], in December 2015. The incident happened outside of an apartment building at 4710 W. Erie in [XX].
Congressman: 'Trump bring your rump!'
A Jan. 24 tweet by President Donald Trump has prompted an intense dialogue about what role the federal government might have in mitigating Chicago's gun violence problem, with an array of West Side leaders offering their own suggestions about how Trump can help solve a problem that many say he should see with his own eyes.
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