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Community

Free dance classes start Monday at the library

By AustinTalks | March 30, 2018

Young people ages 5 to 19 are invited to sign up for the classes, which begin Monday, April 2 and run through May 31. Instruction will be provided by Final Explosion Dance Studio.

Community

West Siders of all ages invited to audition

By AustinTalks | October 6, 2016

NAJWA Dance Corps is seeking West African, modern and hip hop dancers for an April performance. Come Oct. 8th to Garfield Park and show your steps.

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Check out the hip hop green dinner

By AustinTalks | August 18, 2016

Stop by Sankofa Cultural Arts, 5820 W. Chicago Ave., on Aug. 20th from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

News

West Side hip-hop artist writes about black families in new record

By Cara Ball | August 24, 2015

Ambrell “Bella Bahhs” Gambrell hopes to change the perception society has of African-American women.

Community

Cultural night in Garfield Park’s Golden Dome

By AustinTalks | July 25, 2013

NAJWA Dance Corps is putting on the dance series, which runs through the end of the month.

Opinion

The music kids are listening to today

By John W. Fountain III | September 15, 2010

The lyrics may upset the older generations, but commentator John W. Fountain III says people should be more concerned with the conditions today’s youth face.

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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