Justice Dept. Investigates IRS Targeting Of Tea Party
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service just as another probe concludes that lax management enabled agents to improperly target Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax exempt status.
Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) said he ordered the FBI to investigate
...BlackStartup: The African American Solution To Crowdfunding
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In the past five years, crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have revolutionized the way entrepreneurs go about raising capital for new business ventures. Although these sites have helped turn countless of startup pipe-dreams into a reality, a significant number of entrepreneurs, Blacks in particular, aren’t necessarily feeling the s
...Health centers to get $6M to help enroll uninsured
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More than 40 health centers throughout Illinois will be able to apply for $6 million in federal funding to help people sign up for insurance under the new health care law.
The funding was announced Thursday by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The money is part of about $150 million to be distributed nationally to health
City Colleges celebrates its largest commencement in years
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Students participated in the City Colleges of Chicago commencement ceremony Friday, May 3, 20193 at the University of Illinois-Chicago Pavilion. Defender/Worsom Robinson
Recently, the City College of Chicago, one of the largest community college systems in the country, celebrated commencement of its largest graduating class in more than two
Funeral for A.M.E. prelate Roy A. Holmes to be held in Chicago
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The faith community nationwide is mourning the loss of Bishop Roy Anderson Holmes, the prelate of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
The native Greenwood, Miss. bishop died Saturday in Farmington, Conn. He was 62.
Though he moved to the East Coast where he served as pastor of churches in South Carolina, North Carolina and Pittsburgh,
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