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August 9, 2025. Website. budbillikenparade.org. The Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic (also known as The Bud Billiken Day Parade) is an annual parade held since 1929 [5] in Chicago, Illinois. The Bud Billiken Day Parade is the largest African-American parade in the United States. [6] Held annually on the city's south side on the second Saturday in ...
October 17 October 18 October 27 United States Lionel Richie: Dancing on the Ceiling Tour: Sheila E. October 28 October 29 October 30 October 31 Crack Down 1986: December 1 United Kingdom Peter Gabriel: So Tour Youssou N'Dour: December 2
The history of African Americans in Chicago or Black Chicagoans dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable 's trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable, the city's founder, was Haitian of African and French descent. [4] Fugitive slaves and freedmen established the city's first Black community in the 1840s. By the late 19th century, the first ...
e. Archibald Motley painting Blues (1929) The Chicago Black Renaissance (also known as the Black Chicago Renaissance) was a creative movement that blossomed out of the Chicago Black Belt on the city's South Side and spanned the 1930s and 1940s before a transformation in art and culture took place in the mid-1950s through the turn of the century.
Hate crimes against Black people up 50% in Chicago. TheGrio Staff. November 6, 2022 at 2:34 PM. The Chicago PD received 125 hate crime reports in 2022 as of Nov. 6 – the majority of crimes being ...
The company performed in the Black Ensemble Theater at 4520 North Beacon Street until it opened a new state of the art 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m 2) Black Ensemble Cultural Center at 4450 N. Clark Street, on November 18, 2011. [4] [5] The company raised $20M dollar to build the new theater which is also in Uptown.
The Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus is a bloc of aldermen in the Chicago City Council, designed with the goal of "representing the needs and interests of Chicago's Black communities." [1] During the 2019–23 term, the caucus consists of 20 members, out of the council's 50 aldermen. [1][2] As of June 2023, the chair of the caucus is Stephanie ...
April 28, 2022 at 2:51 PM. For more than 20 years, Harry Lennix — an actor best known for his roles in TV shows and film such as “The Blacklist,” “Dollhouse” and “Justice League ...