Advocating for the black girl
By FINISHA O'QUINN
9/1/2010 | | A double threat. A troublemaker. A black female. Dr. Lynette Danley proudly and unapologetically claims all three and encourages her sisters of color to do the same. Growing up in a middle-class family in the Austin neighborhood, she attended Howe Elementary and Currie High school. |
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Residents angered by LaFollette Park cuts
By PATRICK SMITH
9/1/2010 | | Tired of a park district administration they say is deaf to their needs and strained by budget cuts of nearly $150,000 over the past year, volunteers at Austin's LaFollette Park came together last month as a newly formed advisory council. |  | A conversation about sex, girls and HIV
By HANS VILLARICA
9/1/2010 | | HIV and family are not typically mentioned in the same breath, but one prevention expert is hoping to change that. | | ShoreBank fails, seized by regulators
By FRANK KALMAN
9/1/2010 | | Federal bank regulators on Aug. 20 closed down ShoreBank, the ailing South Side-based lender known for its commitment to community lending, including in Austin. | | Help for struggling homeowners
By ROBERT FELTON
9/1/2010 | | With nearly 1000 foreclosures in the Austin community, current and former homeowners have been looking for help during this still difficult housing market. Cook County recently launched a foreclosure mediation program to offer assistance. The program offers Chicago area homeowners free mediation with their lenders to negotiate their mortgage and avoid foreclosure. | |
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| U.S.-Africa connection |  | Members of a South African delegation recently visited the West Side, meeting with students of Chicago Area Project’s employment training program. Among the delegation was Rev. Leonard Maart of Cape Town. Visiting CAP’s career development center, 605 S. Albany, Maart showed students on a map the delegation’s route from South Africa to Chicago while Delvin Holt, 10, and 9 year olds Lavant Hunter and Kion Harris looked on. The African group was in Chicago Aug. 12 to learn about community development.
Courtesy Chicago Area Project
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Supt. Weis met with the wrong gang leaders
9/1/2010 | | Like a lot of people, the headlines and stories in the newspapers and on the TV news over the weekend sounded impressive-"Police Superintendent Jodie Weis tells gang leaders they will be held responsible for the mayhem their members are creating on the streets." But once past the headlines, and given the opportunity to learn more about the meeting, my initial impression has quickly fizzled to hysterical laughter. | | It's not a code of silence. It's a code of fear
8/25/2010 | | "Y'all gon' make me lose my mind up in here, up in here!" Those are the lyrics of rapper-almost-turned-preacher DMX. Lifted from his hit single, "Party Up," I find the words quite fitting as we wade through this summer of blood in Chicago. | |
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