As we rev up for the 19th Annual Youth Leadership Awards in June, it’s time to catch up with youth who have won in previous years. Though Terrance won the prestigious John E. Rooney Dynamic Scholarship Award just last year, he hasn’t wasted a minute making a name for himself. Terrance is completing his first… Read more »
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Nathan Binns has been teaching business education in Chicago Public Schools for 13 years.
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Not many people can say they have been on a television set. Especially not in Chicago.
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In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. moved into a decrepit apartment at 1550 S. Hamlin St.- in North Lawndale- with the goal of bringing his previous successes in the Civil Rights Movement in the South to Chicago. That top floor apartment became the headquarters for Dr. King’s Chicago Freedom Movement. While living in North Lawndale… Read more »
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Just when we thought UCAN’s Youth Leadership Awards could not get more heartwarming…
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“They need a hype man. They need a cheerleader. This is not an ‘I’ thing, this is a ‘we’ thing.”
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UCAN youth spent a weekend outdoors at Camp Duncan in northern Illinois
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