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The NBCU-owned station was the first full-time color TV station in the nation and the first to televise a World Series in Chicago

Throughout the month of October and through the end of the year, WMAQ-TV will be celebrating its 75th Anniversary.

From being the first full-time color TV station in the nation, to televising the first World Series in Chicago, to being Chicago’s first TV station to...

Useni Eugene Perkins is best known for his poem ‘Hey Black Child,’ but Mr. Perkins was a prolific author whose works ranged from children’s plays and poems to tomes documenting life on Chicago’s streets.

Bill Zehme is at a loss. It has been five months now. Five long months since he bagged Johnny Carson, his personal white whale, and presented him to America on the pages of Esquire magazine’s June issue. Once again, Zehme was the envy of every writer in the country. Another coup. Johnny’s first interview in

Black-on-Black violence continues to plague some Black communities today. At times, I have asked myself, how could people who look like me, have very similar cultural characteristics as me and live in the same community as me commit such violent acts against their own people?

Dr. Ian Smith: ‘It was very inspiring to see an African American woman in the position she was in at the station.’