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Missing Austin teen will be featured today on national TV program

By AustinTalks | January 25, 2012

Yasmin Acree, who disappeared in 2008, will be featured on TV One’s Find Our Missing, as part of a 10-episode docu-drama series that aims to bring attention to missing black Americans.

News

Poverty Action Campaign penning Austin’s manifesto

By Ellyn Fortino | January 24, 2012

Members, who will meet tonight, encourage residents to get involved and support initiatives to improve the community.

News

Hundreds attend officer Clifton Lewis’ funeral

By AustinTalks | January 6, 2012

Mourners heard moving testimonies from several, including his fiance, Latrice Walker.

Opinion
John W. Fountain III.

Leave the guilt and shame in last year

By John W. Fountain III | January 2, 2012

You have control over your life and what you want it to be, writes commentator John W. Fountain III.

News

No arrests made in string of armed robberies, sexual assualts

By Ellyn Fortino | December 20, 2011

Chicago Police Department detectives need your help to help solve the crimes.

Community

Holiday season celebrated

By AustinTalks | December 18, 2011

The Central Austin Neighborhood Association and Third Unitarian Church organized and hosted a free event last weekend.

News

Douglass Local School Council looking for new principal

By Ellyn Fortino | December 15, 2011

Some have concerns the school, already on academic probation, could be slated for closure if its new leader can’t make improvements.

Community

Christmas will come early at West Side school

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | December 14, 2011

Rep. La Shawn Ford is partnering with Weinstein Meats and Gusto Packing to provide more than 500 gifts to George Leland Elementary students Dec. 15.

News

Santa Claus comes to Austin

By Ellyn Fortino | December 12, 2011

Kids 12 and under received stockings and gifts at Loretto Hospital’s 21st annual event.

Community

West Side celebrates third annual Soul Food Pow-Wow

By AustinTalks | December 11, 2011

The Nov. 20 event at St. Paul Lutheran Church and School featured the Mkhonto Fellowship Choir from South Africa and Chicago musician T.L. Williams.

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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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