CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

The district is releasing its long-awaited plan to improve Black students’ outcomes days after the Trump administration ...

Governors State Chief Diversity Officer Joi Patterson says the university will not shy away from celebrating different ...

For example, the report unveiled that 80 percent of Chicago Public Schools do not have a librarian, while only 10 percent of majority African American schools have one. The fact-finder sided with ...

Did you know the man that is responsible for the creation of Black History Month once worked and lived near the New River ...

On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man strode back and forth among the pin oaks, magnolias and silver maples of O’Fallon Park in St. Louis, Missouri. After ...

The leaders’ message was delivered inside the Walnut Room at Macy’s — letting kids and adults know you can’t be it unless you ...

Often, people don’t realize this work was done by African Americans,” says a producer of the film. And that work includes some iconic campaigns.

Gillian Schneider, an English and creative writing teacher at Naperville’s Neuqua Valley High School, is a finalist for a ...

Research volunteer Caroline S. O’Connell will share the story of Flossie Sinclair Furr, an African American school teacher who was part of the Great Migration in the early 20th century.