Exterior view of the "Chicago Defender" building in the 1950s. The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images For nearly 115 years, the Chicago Defender has been a vital ...

This week, the Chicago Defender, one of the most renowned black newspapers in America, will cease to produce a print edition. Though it will continue to publish online, the demise of the Defender as a ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 5, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Evolving from a weekly into a daily ...

In the spring of 1916, incumbent President Woodrow Wilson began a difficult presidential campaign. Wilson was facing a reunified Republican Party and an electorate skeptical of his pledge to keep the ...

Flutist Adam Sadberry, 27, never met his grandfather, the pioneering African American journalist L. Alex Wilson (1909-1960). Just about everything Sadberry knew about Wilson he learned secondhand: his ...

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Dyanna Knight Lewis, Regional Vice President, Real Times Media and Publisher, Chicago Defender https://chicagodefender.com/ ...