Sunday, February 28, 2010
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Trendy City Black History-Cheryle Jackson
the first female president and ceo in the 90 year history of the chicago urban league launched a democratic bid for the us senate seat of president obama in 2010 but lost to state treasurer alexi giannoulias.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Behind The Hate-La Bella Mafia
after 7 years on a federal vacation ex-president of cicero betty loren maltese is still married to the mob.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Trendy City Black History-Toni Preckwinkle
its over for todd stroger and tony preckwinkle the first african american female democratic nominee for cook county board president is headed for the general election against roger keats
Saturday, February 13, 2010
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Behind The Hate-Madhouse On 87th St
bear jordan says apparently cps students haven't learned anything from the death of derrion albert.
The Rink Fitness Factory, at 1122 E. 87th St., is a roller rink with a 900-person capacity, but officials on scene said there were about 4,000 kids between 11 and 14 years old on the premises -- including about 1,000 inside the rink. Nathaniel Simpson, 64, owner of the Rink Fitness Factory, was cited with being a keeper of a disorderly house -- which translates to a fire code violation for overcrowding received a fire code citation for overcrowding, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak.
Kubiak said four juveniles were arrested and issued misdemeanor citations in connection with the saturday mele-three for municipal violations and one for battery against a security guard, two teenage boys were trampled but suffered minor abrasions to the head, one of them was 13 years old police said: An 18-year-old for reckless conduct, a 17-year-old for battery, a 17-year-old for reckless conduct, and a 14-year-old for aggravated assault.
Police initially responded at about 8:10 p.m. after fights were reported at The Rink Fitness Factory. Officers found the highly overcrowded rink hosting their monthly dance party, police said. Officials did not see any fighting, but had to shut down East 87th Street between South Greenwood Avenue and South Kenwood Avenue for about 30 minutes to clear out the premises.
editorial chicago sun times
Behind The Hate-The Politcican And The Prostitute
if illinoisans voted for ricky hendon like bear jordan did we wouldn't be talking about this right here.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Trendy City Black History-Eunice W Johnson 1916-2010
before the obama's made the white house black the johsnson's were the first family of black america on the sousthide of chicago.
Eunice W. Johnson, the creator of the Ebony Fashion Fair, a celebrated annual tour of nearly 200 cities that has showcased haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion for a mostly African-American audience for more than 50 years, died on Jan. 3 at her home in Chicago. Mrs. Johnson, who was also one of the first entrepreneurs to market cosmetics made particularly for black women, was 93. Mrs. Johnson, who was also secretary-treasurer of the publishing company, continued to produce and direct the Ebony Fashion Fair through last year.
The cause was renal failure, said Wendy Parks, a spokeswoman for the Johnson Publishing Company, which publishes Ebony and Jet magazines and sponsors the Fashion Fair. Mrs. Johnson, who with her late husband, John H. Johnson, who died in 2005, started and founded the Ebony publishing empire in 1942 with a $500 loan secured by furniture owned by Mr. Johnson’s mother, the Johnsons began publishing Negro Digest, a magazine modeled on Reader’s Digest. Within a year it had a circulation of 50,000. That inspired the couple to start Ebony, a monthly with flashy covers like those of Life magazine. Ebony now has a circulation of 1.25 million. Jet magazine, a weekly, was started in 1951 to highlight news of famous African-Americans; it now has a circulation of 900,000. It was Mrs. Johnson who suggested that the magazine, geared to black readers, be named for the fine-grain dark wood.
What started as a favor to a friend the wife of the former president emeritus at Dillard University in New Orleans — production of a fashion show to raise money for a hospital in New Orleans in 1958 — evolved into a grand traveling tour that has brought the latest creations from designers like Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Oscar de la Renta and Valentino to runways throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Notable African-Americans designers who launched their careers on the runways at the ebony fashion fair were Lenora Levon, Quinton de’ Alexander and L’Amour. the ebony fashion fair also featured models Pat Cleveland, Judy Pace and Terri Springer, actor Richard Roundtree, and television journalist Janet Langhart Cohen, wife of former Defense Secretary William S. Cohen. According to Johnson Publishing Co., the Ebony Fashion Fair has produced more than 4,000 shows and has raised more than $55 million for civil rights groups, hospitals, community centers and scholarships.
At the 1974 show in Manhattan, Mrs. Johnson drew a roar from the crowd when she stepped onstage during intermission and said that she could “run a fashion show from the audience.” It was not always easy. In the early years, when the chartered bus bearing the dozen or so models and the fashions selected by Mrs. Johnson stopped at gas stations in the segregated South, signs said, “No Blacks in the Ladies Room.”
Resistance also surfaced on renowned runways. “We were the ones who convinced Valentino to use black models in his shows back in the ’60s,” Mrs. Johnson told The New York Times in 2001. “I was in Paris, and I told him: ‘If you can’t find any black models, we’ll get some for you. And if you can’t use them, we’re not going to buy from you anymore.’ That was before he was famous.”
Something else perturbed Mrs. Johnson back then: the chore of mixing makeup colors to enhance the varied skin tones of her models. It gave her the idea of starting, in 1973, Fashion Fair Cosmetics, a prestige line that African-American women could buy, for the first time, in top department stores. Stars like Leontyne Price, Diahann Carroll and Aretha Franklin appeared in the company’s ads. Within three years, the growing popularity of Fashion Fair Cosmetics prompted Revlon to introduce the Polished Ambers line for black skins, Avon to start Shades of Beauty and Max Factor to produce Beautiful Bronzes.
Eunice Walker was born in Selma, Ala., on April 4, 1916, one of four children of Nathaniel and Ethel McAlpine Walker. Her father was a physician, her mother a high school principal. She graduated from Talladega College in Alabama in 1938 with a degree in sociology, and earned a master’s degree in social work from Loyola University in Chicago in 1941, journalism at Northwestern University and interior decorating at the Ray-Vogue School of Design. Mrs. Johnson is survived by her daughter, Linda Johnson Rice, who is chairwoman and chief executive of Johnson Publishing, and a granddaughter. pic and editorial @ nyt
Saturday, February 6, 2010
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
So Sexy-Kaaydah Marie Show Magazine Black Lingerie #10
bear jordan needs to get a subscription to show magazine
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Trendsetters-Lupe Fiasco+Cheryle Jackson @ The Shrine
lupe performing i'm beamin paris, tokyo and kick push at the shrine in support of cheryle jackson for roland burris' us senate seat. in case you're wondering bear jordan voted alexi giannoulis. pics @ lupend
Monday, February 1, 2010
Commander In Chief-President Obama @ Republican Retreat
barack gives the gop the political smackdown.
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