Posts Tagged ‘environment’

A soup kitchen disguised as a restaurant is making a big difference in Kansas City.

Posted on: April 13th, 2016

The restaurant-style Kansas City Community Kitchen is a completely new way to feed those in need.



Natalie Y. Moore digs into the ways that segregation continues to shape the politics of her hometown, as well as her own life.

Posted on: April 13th, 2016

Talking Housing Segregation And Chicago With WBEZ’s Natalie Y. Moore



Library hires employee to work with homeless, at-risk people

Posted on: April 6th, 2016

Adecade of serving Oak Park Township as its youth interventionist has given Robert Simmons plenty of experience working with the […]



“Bowing to widespread opposition from coastal towns, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that it won’t open the US Atlantic seaboard to offshore oil exploration, but will still allow some leases off Alaska.”

Posted on: March 21st, 2016

“It’s an incredible day for the Southeast,” said Sierra Weaver, head of the Coast and Wetlands Program at the Southern […]



Chicago retains its dubious title as one of the nation’s most segregated cities

Posted on: March 3rd, 2016

A century after the start of the Great Migration and 50 years after the Kerner Commission Report declared “our nation […]



Gov. Bruce Rauner’s Budget Cuts Hurt Child Care Providers

Posted on: February 17th, 2016

Some daycare providers in Illinois say the state is still behind on payments for families who need help affording child […]



Flint Residents Fight Back

Posted on: February 17th, 2016

“Hundreds of Flint residents on Tuesday packed into a ballroom at the University of Michigan-Flint, hoping to receive answers from […]



A Loyola professor is leading the charge against unfair Federal Housing Policy affecting Chicago’s Poor

Posted on: January 29th, 2016

Lanice Walker, 38, sits with her children Dec. 21, 2015, at their apartment in Chicago. Some of her children were […]



Students call on USF Board of Trustees to reject campus Publix!

Posted on: January 13th, 2016

CALL TO ACTION: University of South Florida students, community members tell university administration: “Publix can’t set up shop on our […]



Pope Francis takes a trip to Central African Republic

Posted on: November 30th, 2015

Pope Francis, the pontiff named after a saint who walked into a war zone in the name of peace, has […]