In the 1960’s, The Freedom Movement took Chicago by storm and started a campaign for civil rights to also be noticed in the north. Dr. Martin Luther King and his family resided in Lawndale while he pushed for better housing in Chicago for African-Americans. In the decades since, Community TV Read more…
More than 100 employees, business owners, students, and members of the public gathered in a crowded room at the Chicago Urban League listening to young Chicagoans about a major problem plaguing the City of Chicago. The issue on the table – lack of jobs for Chicago’s youth. The annual Youth Read more…
CHICAGO – On the heels of one of the most controversial and closely watched presidential elections, Community TV Network youth went out the day before voting polls opened and interviewed several Chicagoans as they headed home for the day. This clip is the result of that. Included in the video Read more…
We’re proud of our students at CTVN’s video production program at Prologue Early College, co-taught by Vedran Residbegovic and Virginia Boyle, who won the national video challenge by the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation with their entry “What is Freedom,” a public service announcement informing people about modern day slavery. 17 Read more…
Students at Carl Shurz High School investigate what Occupy Chicago is all about using interviews at school and downtown OWS headquarters. Be sure to follow and like us!