Pasta… you can never go wrong with pasta, especially pesto. Then, if you add peas and some roasted pine nuts? It’s a whole new level of delicious. This dish is a tradition in my family and is always made in mass quantities because there’s never enough. Hence, the two pounds […]

Utatu is a chartered club at Northeastern Illinois University on the CCICS satellite cam- pus located on the South Side in the Bronzeville community. Utatu is dedicated to providing an African consciousness to the CCICS campus student life through workshops and student activities. Utatu held their second annual free Kwanzaa […]

Big venue concerts have proven that no matter how exciting the art- ists playing are, the venue itself can be quite unstimulating, especially when general admission tickets are so unaffordable that you’re stuck in a chair far away from all the action. You might as well be watching the […]

There’s nothing new about Staceyann Chin except the new addition to her family, and for that, we at Independent say congrats. Though new to motherhood, Chin is no virgin to the literary scene. Ms. Chin has toured the world, with her poetry leading the way and opening the doors […]

Rare previously lost footage featuring some of America’s most prominent Black leaders and musicians Courtesy of Donald Budzinski www.themotiondevotion.com    President Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon Plays Piano and Sings Happy Birthday to Jazz legend Duke Ellington at the White House. http://youtu.be/RAMm5qn50VA Jazz Legend Duke Ellington Meet Civil Rights Martin Luther King Jr. in […]

#8220;What’s happening in Melody is happening all over our country. Drug task forces use military tactics to terrorize poor people. Drug laws specifically target people of color. Mean- while federal money goes to counties that convict the most people. And plea bargains are aggressively pushed to hasten those bargains.” […]

On the evening of January 31, 2012, many Glee fans awaited eagerly for the Glee tribute to Michael Jackson. The show started off with our lovable Glee members (the New Directions) already thinking about sectionals and how great it would be to do a Michael Jackson set. That’s when […]

Have you ever wondered why your hair just won’t act right? Why the frizz and split ends just love you? Why your hair soaks up EVERY drop of oil that hits it? Maybe you need a deep conditioning treatment that will love the hurt away. Or a spritz that […]

President Barrack Obama has been in the White House for three years. With the 2012 election on the horizon, and President Obama up for re-election, his resume could use some review. The biggest issue facing Obama at the start of his first term was the failing economy and the demand […]

Following a major victory by Newt Gingrich in the South Carolina primary, the state of the Republican Presidential Nomination remains something of a toss-up, What isn’t unclear is the long path Gingrich has taken to arrive at his current position. The 68-year old Newton Leroy Gingrich was born in 1943. […]