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What’s the real deal?

By Renna Thomas | November 2, 2014

Longtime resident Renna Thomas urges voters to think carefully as they go to the polls and choose our leaders.

Opinion

Should pastors get involved in politics?

By Valerie Leonard | October 30, 2014

Ministers must be careful, or they risk getting their churches in trouble with the IRS and hurting their community, writes West Side advocate Valerie Leonard.

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Austin activist questions ministers’ support of GOP candidates

By Dwayne Truss | October 16, 2014

Dwayne Truss explains why he thinks black pastors should not be endorsing Jim Oberweis for U.S. Senate and Bruce Rauner for governor.

Opinion

The fearless and the powerful

By John W. Fountain III | October 6, 2014

Columnist John W. Fountain III ponders who’s responsible for the state of African Americans in the U.S.

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Charter schools can’t handle the truth

By Dwayne Truss | September 29, 2014

West Side resident and education activist Dwayne Truss says all schools should be measured the same way.

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What’s in a name?

By Malcolm Crawford | September 10, 2014

Austin business leader Malcolm Crawford challenges us to think about how to honor great African-American leaders in the community.

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Prelude to a contemporary revolution

By John W. Fountain III | August 25, 2014

Read columnist John W. Fountain III’s take on what’s happening in Ferguson.

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Chains versus policy

By John W. Fountain III | August 12, 2014

The past continues to affect African-Americans today, writes columnist John W. Fountain III.

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Political messenger with no message

By Malcolm Crawford | July 29, 2014

Austin business owner Malcolm Crawford longs for elected officials who deliver what the community has asked for.

Opinion

The ongoing threat of violence

By Rasheena Fountain | July 2, 2014

Teens yearn for some freedom this summer, but their concerned parents keep them close.

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  • Expungement, record sealing event helps West Siders get jobs after leaving prison

    Austin resident Anthony Jefferson has been working over the past six years to expunge his criminal record. With help from the Monroe Foundation, he's moving toward the clean slate he wants to achieve to secure employment.

  • Get free groceries, other help from these Austin groups

    On a recent Thursday, volunteers from What About Us Charitable Enterprises spent the morning filling dozens of grocery bags with fresh food and staples that soon filled the arms of West Side residents in need. Dorin “Pastor Mac” McIntyre, executive director and co-founder of What About Us Charitable Enterprises and pastor of Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, is one of many helping Austin residents struggling with food insecurity.

  • 29th Ward residents invited to holiday events on Tuesday

  • 29th Ward residents invited to propose how to spend $450,000

    Austin residents are invited to participate in this year's participatory budgeting cycle. The annual process lets ward residents ages 14 and up decide how to spend a portion of the aldermanic menu money.

  • Forty Acres Fresh Market marks important moment this week in bringing store to Austin

    Austin moves one step closer this week to getting a new grocery store with the groundbreaking of Forty Acres Fresh Market in the heart of the Soul City Corridor. Another effort to expand food offerings on the West Side continues with the Austin Community Food Co-op, which held a virtual info session last week on its efforts to bring a grocery store to the area.

  • Healing in nature workshop set for Saturday

    The Westside Cultural Alliance continues its "See, Feel and Heal" nature series Saturday at Garfield Park Nature Area, 100 N. Central Park with a workshop on making memory boxes. The workshop sessions focus on art and nature as vehicles of healing through art therapy, which provides wholistic healing for the body, mind and spirit.

  • Illinois residents can apply for help with paying gas, electric bills

    Applications are now open for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for qualified residential customers who are over the age of 60, have a disability or have children under the age of 6 to receive financial assistance to pay their energy bills. LIHEAP is a federally funded bill payment assistance program that helps low- and fixed-income families pay their utility during the winter heating season.

  • West Siders turn out for chili cook off in Austin’s Soul City

    Over a dozen local chefs competed in the second annual "It’s Getting Chili in Soul City" event on Saturday. A team of five who make up the Austin African American Business Networking Association board – Malcolm Crawford, Shirley Fields, Sharmine Rickett, Ronald Smith and Marshawn Felton – created the chili contest last year.

  • Chicago Marathon runner raises money for West Side girls

    Over the last 20 years, Ashley Graham has run 56 marathons - including the Chicago Marathon five times. Several of those marathons she raised money for charity - and this year was no different.

  • Stop by Austin farmers market this week

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