Category Archives: Ernie Allen Blog

6-25-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago will benefit from almost $200 million in taxpayer funding for work on infrastructure projects near the center on Ch...

6-22-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY-SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - The Trump administration isn't the first to grapple with the question of how to handle tens of thousands of immigrant families arriving o...

6-7-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump commuted the sentence Wednesday of a woman serving a life sentence for drug offenses whose cause was championed by r...

6-6-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY-INSTITUTE, W.Va. (AP) - Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped astronauts return to Earth, is being honored at her alma mater with a b...

6-5-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- WASHINGTON (AP) - Digging deeper into a culture war that he's repeatedly stoked, President Donald Trump on Monday called off a visit by the Philadelphia Eagl...

6-4-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S TOP STORY- On April 25, 15-year-old Sadaria Davis was last seen leaving her East Garfield Park neighborhood in Chicago. Her friends and family had not heard from her si...

6-1-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- MSNBC host Joy Reid is once again facing scrutiny over old blog posts, this time for her promotion of a documentary asserting that 9/11 was an inside job. Ac...

5-31-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY-Chicago murders significantly decreased after 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins' mysterious death last year. However, several homicides are still leaving city residents...

5-30-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY-The body of a Black National Guardsman who disappeared during treacherous floods in Maryland on Sunday was found in the Patapsco River Tuesday afternoon, Howard C...

5-29-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- After 12 years in prison, Cyntoia Brown had a clemency hearing on May 23 in Tennessee, which would allow for her release-but now her fate is in limbo.Brown ...