Last Thursday morning, Chicago School Board President Michael Scott stood on a corner at Altgeld Gardens and surveyed the landscape.

Some of you didn't get why the dress code -- which led to six Washington University students being banned from the Original Mother's bar on Rush Street -- sparked an outcry.

It's been decades since I've partied on Rush Street, but I'm not surprised that the bars are still discriminating against black men.

Quite often, the first thing out of our mouths when a teenager is accused of a heinous crime is: "It starts in the home."

After hearing from an angry parent, I reached out to "Queen Sister," a colorful activist who has been at the forefront of rallies to stop the violence near Fenger High School.

Nineteen-year-old Bianca Thompson is a baby's mama who tried to do the right thing.

Teen violence has put us between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, black people don't want the jails to continue to fill up with young black men.