Councilmember Trayon White's lawyer made his case before the D.C. Council arguing that his client cannot be expelled due to a procedural issue and that the removal violates D.C. Home Rule. The newly-elected Ward 8 councilmember was present during the hearing wearing a t-shirt that read,

José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez, civil rights activist and founder of the Young Lords Organization, died Friday, Jan. 10. He was 76.

Relive the excitement of Marvel’s Black Panther with one of the country’s finest symphonic orchestras. Tomorrow the Chicago Philharmonic will perform the Oscar and Grammy-Winning score live to ...

Founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, Calif., the party was part of the Black Power movement whose ideology broke from the nonviolent protest tactics embraced by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling reiterated that his department cannot assist ICE, but they can communicate with the federal law enforcement agency. Meanwhile, Mayor Brandon Johnson had strong words for the mass deportations for which so many voted.

A federal freeze on loans and grants announced this week by the Donald Trump administration has numerous agencies and programs on alert, including head start programs in Chicago. WGN's Lourdes Duarte reports on the impact being felt around Chicago.

Not how I "remembered" it. In THE PINK PANTHER, Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven), a globetrotting bachelor who is in secret a super-thief called the Phantom, has been making fools of police around the world for 15 years. No fool is bigger than Inspector ...

Warner Bros. has announced that the full trailer for Ryan Coogler's Sinners will be released online tomorrow, and you can check out a creepy new teaser right

The Godfather of Harlem has his work cut out for him with a new rival in the first teaser trailer for Season 4 of the MGM+ series (premiering Sunday, April 13, with weekly episodes). Rome Flynn (Chicago Fire,

Shooting is underway in Rome on Anton Corbijn’s thriller “Switzerland,” starring Helen Mirren as American crime novelist Patricia Highsmith, with Alden Ehrenreich (“Oppenheimer”) and Olivia Cooke (“House of the Dragon”) confirmed to have joined the cast.

Black History Month kicks off this Saturday with a screening of “Chicago Stories - House Music: A Cultural Revolution.”

The VH1 Save the Music Foundation never had any problem getting attention in the late ’90s when it launched with a party featuring Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion and Mariah Carey.