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The newly launched website -www.BlackShopFriday.com – provides a guide to more than 500 local Black-owned businesses – more than 40 of them in Austin – that can be searched by category and/or neighborhood. Black Shop Friday is a partnership of the city of Chicago, the Chicago Urban League and advertising agency O’Keefe Reinhard & Paul (OKRP).
Share your thoughts on what needs to be done to strengthen the West Side and other communities of color.
n his first state of the ward address, the alderman said cooperation between residents, community groups, police officers and elected officers is critical to addressing the problems facing the West Side.
The event, sponsored by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford, the Chicago Urban League and others, will take place at Malcolm X College.