Month: October 2011

African-American Media Panel Discussion – FREE
Tuesday, November 8 from 6pm to 8pm 
The Little Black Pearl
1060 East 47th StreetChicago, IL 60653-3600
How does the African-American news media cover its community? What more can African-American NGOs, activists and community groups need to get their story told?
Join us for a community dialogue between the…

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein was looking at fatal police shootings in Chicago, and so he began with a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) to the Chicago Police Department.
It quickly became a lesson for Lowenstein, a reporter for Hoy, a daily Spanish-language newspaper, in the difficulty reporters face in getting needed…

An individual of huge stature came through twice for the good of the Chicago Headline Club: Arthur C. Nielsen Jr., who died Oct. 3 at 92. Each time, his gifts were because of friendship begun as a teenager with Les Brownlee, CHC president in 1989-90.
 
A CHC loyalist…