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Community cook out this Saturday in Levin Park

By AustinTalks | July 23, 2015

West Side residents are invited to the free event from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the 5400 block of West Ferdinand.

Community

Peace festival Saturday

By AustinTalks | August 28, 2014

From 12 to 6 p.m., join others at Bethel Lutheran Church, 130 N. Keeler Ave.

Community

Take part in this year’s Juneteenth celebration

By AustinTalks | May 8, 2014

A planning meeting will be held 6 p.m. May 8 at Sankofa Cultural Arts & Business Center.

Community

Austin teen brings poetry to Chicago schools – and beyond

By AustinTalks | October 15, 2012

In a recent Chicago Tribune story, 19-year-old Malcolm London shares his passion for the written word and tells his story from growing up on the West Side to his recent appearance on national television.

News

Austin youth honored at community film festival

By Ashlee Rezin | June 4, 2012

Students from the Academy of Scholastic Achievement were recognized for their work, as were others from across the city.

Community

Fundraiser held today for Juneteenth festival

By AustinTalks | July 22, 2011

Help retire the debt for this year’s festival and raise money for next year. If you can’t make it today, your help is still needed.

News

Juneteenth festival starts today

By Austin Weekly News | June 16, 2011

The six-day event runs through Tuesday at Garfield Park.

Opinion

Where are Austin’s street festivals, outdoor events?

By John W. Fountain III | June 1, 2011

One local resident urges local elected officials to make sure the city’s most-populated neighborhood benefits from summer celebrations. What do you think?

News

Summer festival planned for West Side

By Patrick Smith | January 7, 2011

Organizers of Juneteenth the African American Independence Day Festival (JAAIDF) will hold another planning meeting Saturday at Garfield Park, where the event will be held June 18-22.

Community

Good turnout and good weather for last Saturday’s music festival

By Shardaa Gray | July 3, 2010

A few hundred people enjoyed the 10th annual Somethin’ Good in the Hood last weekend. Watch our video story.

News

  • 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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