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Support a black-owned business this Saturday

By AustinTalks | February 23, 2015

Participate in the Black Economic Empowerment Rally 1 p.m. Feb. 28 at Second Times the Charm Boutique, 5303 W. Chicago. Ave.

Opinion

The future is now

By Malcolm Crawford | January 1, 2015

Local leader urges African Americans to continue to support black-owned businesses in the community.

Community

West Side nonprofits rise to the challenge

By Valerie Leonard | October 9, 2014

Local resident Valerie Leonard helps organizations by challenging them to become compliant in 30 days.

Community

Another new business in Austin

By Malcolm Crawford | October 3, 2014

The head of the Austin African American Business Networking Association urges the community to support Annie Bell Fragrances 1 p.m. Oct. 4.

Community

Back a local business Saturday – and every day

By AustinTalks | July 24, 2014

Meet near the corner of Madison and Menard at 1 p.m. July 26.

News

Business owners support one of their own

By AustinTalks | May 16, 2014

Customers flocked to Lake Street and Pulaski Road last weekend to support the owners of a Subway shop that opened in November.

Opinion

Do you want to be a part of the solution?

By Terry Redmond | May 9, 2014

Local resident Terry Redmond challenges fellow West Siders to make Austin the beautiful place it can be.

Community

Economics summit set for this weekend

By AustinTalks | April 29, 2014

The Austin African American Business Networking Association (AAABNA) hosts the three-day-event that starts Friday at 3 p.m.

Community

Something good happened in Austin

By Malcolm Crawford | March 24, 2014

West Side residents celebrate the grand opening of the expansion of Betty’s Daycare Academy.

Community

Interested in starting a business?

By AustinTalks | February 11, 2014

Bethel New Life will soon start its next round of entrepreneurship classes. Learn more at the orientation meeting tonight at 5 p.m., 1140 N. Lamon.

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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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