by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 18, 2015 | Current Events & News
Lois Bates (1970 – 2011) There were few in Chicago’s transgender community who did not know — or at least know of — Lois Bates. A fixture at Chicago’s Howard Brown Health Center, a health care and research center that serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 13, 2015 | Current Events & News
Kenneth Reeves (1951 – present) Kenneth E. Reeves was born and brought up in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the legendary Cass Technical High School, and graduated a year after Detroit’s turbulent 1967 riots. He attended Harvard College and graduated cum laude at...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 9, 2015 | Current Events & News
Join us on Sunday February 22nd at 2:00PM for our Black History Month concert. Our Theme this year is “Keep Your Eye’s On the Prize”. This will be a musical tribute to remember the past, highlight our present condition such as remembering Treyvon Martin,...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 9, 2015 | Current Events & News
Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) “We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.” Born in New York City of West Indian parents, Lorde was...
by MCCDC-Dale | Feb 1, 2015 | Current Events & News
Black History Month, or National African American History Month, is an annual celebration of achievements by black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. The event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of...
