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Loretto Hospital - Chicago, IL will be hosting a blood drive and kidney screenings on Saturday, July 27 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. as part of their Summer Screening Series!

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Another YouthBuild program begins Monday, June 24! YouthBuild Proviso Township is a free, 6–9 month NEXT chance program designed to create pathways to employment for opportunity youth ages 17-24.

In partnership with the Village of Maywood, every YouthBuild participant will contribute to the rehabilitation of a residential housing unit that will be offered as low-income or affordable housing to local residents! Participants also earn a bi-weekly stipend up to $250! Learn more: https://ilsendems.co/3Ux2es1

West Garfield Park Youth Council Discussion on youth empowerment and mentorship. This program was recorded on November 21, 2019 at Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).

Join us as we raise the Juneteenth Flag at the Broadview Public Library District

Today we celebrate mothers—the women who raised us and continue to care for us throughout our lives. To all the moms out there, thank you!

The Village of Broadview is offering summer employment opportunities for youths aged 14-15.

We have 20 spots available, and applicants must be residents of Broadview. Parents are required to provide proof of residency.

We are partnering with Proviso Leyden Council for Community Action, Inc - PLCCA for youths ages 16-24.

Join us for the conversation on Parenting on Purpose...We are raising the score in 2024📚❤️

Leader Lightford champions measure to set high school students up for financial success SPRINGFIELD – Senate Majority Leader Kimberly A. Lightford is championing a proposal to require high school students to learn financial literacy.“When young people leave high school, they are given the freedom to...

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W.E.B. DUBOIS

This date marks the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois in 1868. He was an African American sociologist, one of the most important Black protest leaders in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.

W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt) Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Mass. and graduated from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., in 1888. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1895. His doctoral dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870, was published in 1896. Although Du Bois took an advanced degree in history, he was broadly trained in the social sciences; and at a time when sociologists were theorizing about race relations, he was conducting inquiries into the condition of Blacks.

For more than a decade he devoted himself to sociological investigations of Blacks in America, producing 16 research monographs published between 1897 and 1914 at Atlanta University, where he was a professor. Du Bois also wrote The Philadelphia Negro; A Social Study 1899, the first case study of a Black community in the United States. At first Du Bois had believed that social science could provide the knowledge to solve the race problem but he gradually came to the conclusion that in a climate of virulent racism, expressed in such evils as lynching, peonage, disfranchisement, Jim Crow laws, and race riots, social change could be accomplished only through agitation and protest. In this view, he clashed with the most influential Black leader of the period, Booker T. Washington, who, advocating a philosophy of accommodation, urged Blacks to accept discrimination for the time being and elevate themselves through hard work and economic gain.

In 1903, in his famous book The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois charged that Washington's strategy, rather than freeing the Black man from oppression, would serve only to perpetuate it. This attack crystallized the opposition to Booker T. Washington among many Black intellectuals, polarizing the leaders of the black community into two wings--the "conservative" supporters of Washington and Du Bois’ "radical" critics. Two years later, in 1905, Du Bois took the lead in founding the Niagara Movement, which was dedicated chiefly to attacking the platform of Booker T. Washington. Internal squabbles and Washington’s opposition seriously weakened the small organization, which met annually until 1909. But it was significant as an ideological forerunner for the in*******al NAACP, founded in 1909. Du Bois played a prominent part in the creation of the NAACP and became the association's director of research and editor of its magazine, The Crisis.

Here he wielded an unequaled influence among middle-class blacks and progressive whites as the propagandist for the black protest from 1910 until 1934. In the Niagara Movement and in the NAACP, Du Bois acted mainly as an integrationist, but his thinking always exhibited, to varying degrees, separatist-nationalist tendencies. Du Bois' black nationalism took several forms--the most influential being his pioneering advocacy of Pan-Africanism, the belief that all people of African descent had common interests and should work together in the struggle for their freedom. Du Bois was a leader of the first Pan-African Conference in London in 1900 and the architect of four Pan-African Congresses held between 1919 and 1927. Second, he articulated a cultural nationalism. As the editor of The Crisis he encouraged the development of black literature and art and urged his readers to see "Beauty in Black." Third, Du Bois’ black nationalism is seen in his belief that blacks should develop a separate "group economy" of producers' and consumers' cooperatives as a weapon for fighting economic discrimination and Black poverty.

This doctrine became especially important during the economic catastrophe of the 1930s and precipitated an ideological struggle within the NAACP. He resigned from the editorship of both publications in 1934, yielding his influence as a race leader and charging that the organization was dedicated to the interests of the Black bourgeoisie and ignored the problems of the masses. Du Bois’ interest in cooperatives was a part of his nationalism that developed out of his Marxist leanings. At the turn of the century, he had been an advocate of black capitalism and black support of black business, but by about 1905 he had been drawn toward Socialist doctrines. Although he joined the Socialist Party briefly in 1912, he remained sympathetic with Marxist ideas throughout the rest of his life.

Upon leaving the NAACP he returned to Atlanta University, where he devoted the next 10 years to teaching and scholarship. In 1940 he founded the magazine Phylon, Atlanta University's "Review of Race and Culture." In 1945 he published the "Preparatory Volume" of a projected encyclopedia of the Black, for which he had been appointed editor in chief. He also produced two major books during this period. Black Reconstruction and Dusk of Dawn. Following this decade at Atlanta University, he returned once more to a research position at the NAACP until 1948. Thereafter Du Bois moved steadily leftward politically.

He identified with pro-Russian causes and was indicted in 1951 as an unregistered agent for a foreign power. Although a federal judge directed his acquittal, Du Bois had become completely disillusioned with the United States. In 1961 he joined the Communist Party and, moving to Ghana, renounced his American citizenship more than a year later. DuBois died on Aug. 27th 1963 in Accra, Ghana. His autobiography was published in 1968.

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Join us for a Spring Open House on Saturday, Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. The Black Star Project aims to boost children’s academic success and raise communities’ academic expectations and performance by using Freedom School curriculum and concepts.

Topics covered will include:
📚 S.T.E.M.
📚 Linguistics
📚 Computer Cooling
📚 Health & Wellness
📚 History
📚 Art

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