Author: Zeki Salah

By: Gresë Sermaxhaj In this captivating piece, Santoshi Wagle, a 2022 Goldin Global Fellow, shares her experience and reflections leading an event for International Peace Day 2022 in her own country, Nepal.  Santoshi unpacks her challenges, the invaluable lessons she learned, and the profound impact she is making by using the skills she gained through… Continue reading Empowering her Community for Peace: A Goldin Global Fellow’s Journey

By: Zeki Salah, Communications Associate In August of 2023, Chicago Beyond, a philanthropic organization that invests in organizations working to ensure that young people and community members are free to live full lives, announced a $1.6 million investment in Centro Sanar. Centro Sanar, co-founded by 2022 Chicago Peace Fellow, Edwin Martinez, provides free mental health… Continue reading Chicago Peace Fellow partners with Chicago Beyond to provide Mental Health Services on the Southwest Side

By: Zeki Salah, Communications Associate On June 17, Mr. Dad’s Father’s Club held their fifth annual Father’s Day March in Ogden Park. Mr. Dad’s Father’s Club was founded in 2017 by Joseph Williams, a 2020 Chicago Peace Fellow, to get fathers and male-mentors actively involved in their childrens’ lives. Mr. Dad’s Father’s Club uses literacy… Continue reading Father’s Day March Brings Community and Connectedness to Englewood

By: Zeki Salah, Communications Associate A new resource for families of victims of gun violence was recently launched by 2020 Chicago Peace Fellow, Pamela Montgomery-Bosely. Her organization, Purpose Over Pain, recently launched a 24-hour crisis response hotline for people coping with the loss of a loved one from violence. The hotline is active from 7pm… Continue reading A New Resource for Victims of Gun Violence

By: Zeki Salah, Communications Associate Brothers Tony and Sylvester Raggs recently started a youth boxing club in West Garfield Park. The club, Boxing Off the Block, is intended to teach young people from ages 13-18 discipline and the skill set of boxing. The club is located in Bethel Lutheran Church & School, and training is… Continue reading West Garfield Park Boxing Club is a Haven for Youth

By: Sylvia Del Raso, 2022 Chicago Peace Fellow and Board Treasurer, Chicago Youth Boxing Club Inc Almost 15 years ago, I was asked to join the Chicago Youth Boxing Club (CYBC) board, a nonprofit sports-based youth development program serving the North Lawndale and Little Village communities on the southwest side of Chicago. What I started as… Continue reading Chicago Youth Boxing Club: Building Community, Character, and Togetherness

On March 28, the LUV Institute arranged for 60 middle and high school students to travel to Little Rock, Arkansas, to learn about the Little Rock Nine, the group of nine Black students who enrolled at the formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

By: Zeki Salah, Communications Associate A global grassroots robotics initiative, One Team Two Continents, brought thirteen South African students to Chicago in March to participate in a FIRST robotics competition. The project was a joint collaboration between 2019 Chicago Peace Fellow Jackie Moore and 2018 Global Fellow Dieudonne Anumbosi Allo. Funding from the Chicago Peace… Continue reading Teaching the Importance of Pluralism and Social Inclusion through Robotics

By Gresë Sermaxhaj, Communications Associate 2021 Chicago Peace Fellow, Dr. Dorothy Towns-Thompson and her daughter, Antonette Parker, a teacher, recently co-authored three books on Black history and handwriting for children of all ages. Dr. Thompson has over three decades of experience as an educator, alcohol, and drug prevention professional, administrator, and ordained minister and has used the… Continue reading A Reflection on Black History through Handwriting: An Interview with Dr. Dorothy Thompson

By: Zeki Salah, Communications Associate The Black Star Project recently partnered with BDM Sports & Education Project to send Chicago students to Salt Lake City to learn about careers in sports at the NBA All-Star Weekend from February 17-19. This trip marked the third year that the Black Star Project has sent young people to… Continue reading Black Star Project Showcases Careers in Sports at the NBA All-Star Weekend