Chicago Crusader Newspaper

With 4 million Illinoisans carrying felony records, an ex-felon barred from running for alderman is running for U.S. Senate — and says that voting bloc could decide the race.   Tyrone Muhammad is unapologetically Black, unashamedly outspoken, and undeniably controversial. This week, he became something else: a man who may be poised to make history […]

A judge rejected the state’s case and ordered his release Wednesday. His defense attorney argued the complaining witness engineered his arrest.   Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., son of the slain legendary Black Panther revolutionary, walked out of Cook County Jail on Wednesday after a judge ruled the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office failed to prove […]

New online “mixtape” looks at the ongoing issue of gentrification, Black male friendship, marriage, and Golden Age hip-hop.  “Frederick Douglass Boulevard” aka “Food & Drink Boulevard” aka “F.D.B.” is Emmy-eligible. The first six episodes of its eight-episode, first season “mixtape” are streaming on Kinema.com. F.D.B. is the story of a Black...

By Erick Johnson    Funeral services have been announced for Spencer Leak, Jr., whose sudden death last weekend stunned Black Chicago and the city months after he managed the services of civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. Leak, who for years was the face of the venerable Leak and Sons Funeral Home as he ser...

Groundbreaking for the new $300 million Advocate Trinity Hospital in South Shore was held on Tuesday, June 2, where hundreds of community leaders celebrated a new era in healthcare for Blacks and neighborhoods that have suffered from economic disinvestment.  Under a large tent Eugene Woods, CEO of Advocate Health, Mayor Brandon Johnson, Alderman Greg Mitchell […]