Photo caption: BASKETBALL COURT inside of Morgan Park High School This is part two of a three-part series examining how high schools and student-athletes adapted to the shutdown of their sports programs and the adjustment of a new normal in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact on academics and mental health was greater […]
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Photo caption: Morgan Park High School’s mustang mascot statue This is part three of a three-part series examining how high schools and student-athletes adapted to the shutdown of their sports programs and the adjustment of a new normal in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The lessons learned by the administration and coaches. By Bobby
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All Ralph Yarl was trying to do was pick up his siblings in Kansas City. He went to a home on 115th Street instead of 115th Terrace, an understandable mistake that could have been easily rectified had the homeowner, who opened the door with a gun instead, said, “wrong address” and provided directions to the
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Once upon a time, before the digital age, people were suspicious of new technological developments. Humans are often leery of what is new, preferring to settle for the “tried and true.” Recent developments are lending credence to this traditional cautionary stance, and there is a rise in what can be called “Neo-Luddites” as a result.
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By Rev. John E. Jackson It was the late Jegna Dr. William Augustus Jones, who pastored the Bethany Baptist Church of New York, who posited this prolific paradigm, “Your Theology will determine your Anthropology and your Anthropology will then determine your Sociology.” In other words, how you see God, [theology] will govern how you see
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Photo caption: JULIAN HIGH SCHOOL athletic building entrance | Bobby Cameron for the Chicago Crusader This is part one of a three-part series examining how high schools and student-athletes adapted to the shutdown of their sports programs and the adjustment of a new normal in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Administrators were mandated to
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Lawmakers seek answers and solutions to losses In 2023, “March Madness” took on a new meaning. Traditionally known as the nation’s premier college basketball competition, this year that moniker could also describe the madness that sprang from the closure of two banks with combined assets of $322 billion that affected consumers and small businesses in
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Abolitionist journalist Ida B. Wells’ quest to document lynchings began when three of her friends, Tommy Moss, Calvin McDowell and Will Stewart, were lynched because whites were envious of their economic success. Moss, a highly regarded pastor, postal worker (a great job in the South in the 1890s), and activist started the People’s Grocery with
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Right after the American Civil War, there was a Reconstruction Era that lasted until the Compromise of 1877. Basically, the focus was on bringing the southern states back into full political participation in the Union, and the goal was guaranteeing the rights of former slaves and ensuring new relationships between whites and African Americans. This
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The African Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 5:4, “Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us…” In this final installment of the Hope Series, I would like to turn your attention to Chapter 16 of the Gospel of Mark. But before I address the text of
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