Karen Attiah has reached a settlement with The Washington Post and decided not to return months after an arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate her with full back pay following her firing over ...

Hip-hop icon Da Brat, hailing from Chicago’s West Side, is bringing her hometown energy to the holiday stage as the host and ...

With provisional and mail-in ballots still being processed, four Chicago school board seats remain undecided until final ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 4, Queen Latifah, the award-winning entertainer and entrepreneur, brought home, community, and giving back ...

April Ryan celebrates Black women's historic election wins while warning voters the fight for democracy isn't over—stay ...

Michael Sanft, defense attorney for convicted 'shot-caller' Duane "Keffe D" Davis in the Tupac Shakur murder trial, has died.

Five-time GRAMMY winner talks music, hometown pride and riding CTA with her Walkman Lalah Hathaway, the Chicago-born R&B ...

Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom flipped Forrest County, Mississippi, a county named after the Ku Klux Klan's first ...

Joseph Owusu, 24, was found dead inside a duffel bag abandoned on a Brooklyn sidewalk after surveillance footage captured two ...

Anthony O. Kellum I grew up hearing the older generation in my family talk about land the way other people talk about money.

For The Chicago Defender, our colleague and friend Samantha Chatman reflects on her father, DJ Sam Chatman, a pioneer who ...

Chicago Elects Historic School Board as Stratton, Pritzker Win Major Races Chicago voters made history Tuesday, November 3, electing the city's first fully elected Board of Education while helping dec ...