CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

Carter Woodson was a tireless promoter of Black culture who planted seeds for what became Black History Month a century ago ...

Over 100 years ago, Georgiana Simpson became the first Black woman to attain a Ph.D. at an American university, making history not just on the University of Chicago campus ... after being forced off ...

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its origins dating back to the first African American congregations in the ...

Between 1959 and 1963, an elementary school class in West Chatham went from majority white to majority Black, and Next Voices ...

A legal advocacy group has filed a civil rights complaint with the US Education Department, alleging a diversity, equity and ...

NBCUniversal Local Chicago ... s first Black and Asian-American head coach to lead a team to the national championship game. Plus, viewers will be treated to a story on former University of ...

For two years, the neuroscience PhD at the University of Chicago poured herself into her ... and it hamstrings efforts to get more Black women like Davis into scientific fields, where they are ...

Alderman Ray Lopez said that Johnson only cares about the opinions of "hyper-liberal White progressives" who live in Chicago ... graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political ...

Rising Star Student Voice: The Bears will partner with a member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) charter at Northwestern University, to take part in the second-annual Chicago ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

Pianist Michelle Cann’s deep connection with the music of the late Florence Price led her to undertake research on other Black ... time in Chicago Jan. 24 under the auspices of University ...