Article: Dr. Gloria Jackson Bacon's 70th Birthday Celebration to benefit Project 18 Altgeld Community Fund

Article: New charter school opens near Altgeld community
Chicago Defender;  August 19, 2009 ;     700+ words ...It was the first day of school Monday and everything was new, including the school. About 314 students attend the Chicago International Lloyd Bond School, 13300 S. Langley, and Monday a great number of them showed up for the first day of school. Most of the students Uve in the Altgeld

Article: Vocalist Maggie Brown sings with the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic
Chicago Defender;  August 27, 2007 ;     606 words ... ... Project 18, the Altgeld Community Foundation, Inc ... programs of the Altgeld Community Foundation, Inc ... College of Medicine - African American Scholarship Fund ... growing up as an African American girl below the ...

Article: Defender to honor 12 at 2007 Newsmakers Award & Scholarship ...
Chicago Defender;  September 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... was the very first African American woman to receive ... following programs: Altgeld Community Foundation, Inc ... of Medicine's African American Scholarship Fund ... quahty of life in the African American commun

Article: TEESEE'S TOWN
Chicago Defender;  October 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... with over 500,000 votes. Steele was the longest serving African American woman in the board's history and is also the first and ... Partnerships;" Gloria Jackson Bacon, M.D. of Project 18/Altgeld Community Foundation Inc., "for Status of Women;" and Pamela ...

Article: African-American students in a predominantly-White ...
College Student Journal;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... to retention. In this study, 183 African-American freshmen participated in a campus ... disparity between the graduation rates of African-American students and White students. What ... factors that may enhance the success of African-American students on predominantly-White ...

Article: African-American Youth Overexposed to Alcohol ...
U.S. Newswire;  June 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... on the 15 television shows most popular with underage African- American youth and consistently exposed underage African-American youth to more alcohol ads than non-African-American youth in magazines and on radio in 2002, according to ...

Article: African American Inroads for the GOP
The Washington Post;  April 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... make modest progress with African American voters. Modest progress ... rather than 8 percent of the African American vote -- could have large ... became the state's first African American to hold a statewide executive ...