September 11 2014 Issue of Chicago Street Journal

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Chicago Street Journal

September 11—23, 2014

September 11 –24, 2014

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Dr. Lyn Hughes, in intimate conversation with Dir. Jon Jarvis, of the National Park Service (NPS) discussing A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter M useum (APRPPM) readiness and participation after designation

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By Donnell Robinson Staff Writer The buzz in Chicago is about the interest of the National Park Service (NPS) in the Historic Pullman community. Until just recently, all of the media coverage has focused on Pullmans architecture, and rightly so. However, it was only when the NPS indicated they had a strong interest in the Black labor story, t h e a t t e n t i o n c e n t e r e d o n Back labor and the Pullman Porters, which notes the work of the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter M useum (APRPPM) on 104th street, who has been telling the black labor story for 20 years, both in the community and at the national level. APRPPA has been a mile stone in teaching history and culture awareness for t h e p a s t 2 0 y e a r s . That is what its founder Dr. Lynn Hughes wants to do. Teach the African American Community about Cultural Economic Development. “Now that I am no longer president of the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, I have time to think and write and express my opin-

By Real Deep Associate Publisher Hip Hop resident Barack Obama gave an update on the situation in Ferguson, noting that the Department of Justice has opened an independent federal civil rights investigation into the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Attorney General Eric Holder traveled to Ferguson to meet with the FBI agents and Department Of Justice personnel conducting the federal investigation. The investigation is still under question if the police officer's who break protocol and kill unarmed teenager while they are surrendering with their hands above their heads. News media escalated coverage as the small St. Louis suburb po-

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lice officers clad in riot gear, fired tear gas into the crowd of protesters. As protesters clashed with police, the New YorkTimes reported that, according to a federal autopsy, Michael Brown had been shot six times on the day of his death, including twice in the head protesters continue calling for the officer should be fired immediately and needs to undergo justice in the eyes of the law just like everyone else. The Ferguson police department's continues to be questioned in the lack of accountability and mishandling of this case and worsens by the minute- to the fury and detriment of riots in the community, as activist calls for the policeman be charged with murder. Showing solidarity with many (Continued on page 14)

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, From the Editor & Publisher On the heels of workers’ winning a historic victory for a $15/hour minimum wage in Seattle, twenty-one Chicago aldermen co-sponsored legislation for $15 in the third largest city in the nation. The bill includes a two-year phasein for big business, and a five-year phase-in for businesses whose annual revenue is under $50 million. Despite the unnecessary phase-in for big business, if enacted the proposal would be a major step forward. According to the Center for Popular Democracy, in partnership with Raise Chicago, $15/hour would transform the lives of 229,000 low-wage workers, nearly one quarter of Chicago’s workforce. But there is those that question the Minimum wage. Charles Dawkins of Aurburn Gresham says he is:

“Loose Squares”

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Next year, voters in Chicago will head to the polls to elect a new mayor. There is no crystal balls to the 5th Floor for 2015. But over the last months Roger Washington (no relations to Harold W.) a candidate from the City ’s Westside 24th ward alderman seat points out 2015 conceivably will have a wave of voters greater than when the late Mayor Harold Washington was elected in 1983. Washington says it will be the first time in more than two decades of a golden opportunity to elect a minority again to the mayor seat. Few local

campaigns in this country, indeed, in the world, have ever generated such sustained intensity as Chicago's 1983 Democratic mayoral primary. In a city where politics is king, the three-way contest was the (Continued on page 6)

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