In the last year, over 36 Chicago children and teens have been murdered—more than one a week during the school year. Among them, Kendrick and Carnell Pitts, brothers killed in separate shootings within two weeks of each other, leaving their parents, Esther and Juan, in shock and disarray. Today, Esther fights back through a new …
The list of Smokey Robinson’s accolades is almost as long as the 4,000 songs that he has written in his lifetime. A Motown Legend, Smokey gained everything most people dream of-fame, money, and romance. Suddenly, however, to the surprise of his fans, family and friends, his life fell apart and revealed a hidden but debilitating …
Today, forty-seven year old Derrick Gardner leaves prison for the fifth time in his life. This convicted felon has spent 26 years locked up, and now he has yet another chance to rehabilitate. But his tearful sister, Linda Gardner, fears he will go back to stealing and end up right back in the slammer. Statistics …
Leah Mayer of Chicago believed she was too intelligent and too educated to be trapped by an abusive man. And when independent thinker Martha Tyler became a pastor’s wife, she found herself believing that her husband was “too good” for her. Both were caught in the mind games, verbal assaults and eventually physical violence that …