ABC 7 Chicago (WLS TV) : 'Stop the finger pointing': South Side rally calls for peace following violent weekend

 |   By Cate Cauguiran   

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A rally on Chicago's South Side is calling for peace this weekend.

Saint Sabina's Father Michael Pfleger leading a peace rally Friday night. It comes on the heels of the holiday weekend that saw 100 people shot across the city.

"Let's have a strategy for Chicago, there is no strategy right now. There is no plan," Pfleger said.

Residents in Auburn Gresham will have more fresh food options this summer thanks to the Stein Learning Gardens at Saint Sabina, which celebrated the grand opening of its new community food hub today. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter reports...

Chicago Sun-Times: "WHY I STAND WITH FATHER PFLEGER"  

 |   Commentary by John Fountain   

I stand with Father Pfleger. ...

For decades now, he has been a living, breathing, walking epistle of the love of Christ and his compassion for the least of these.

Indeed, Pfleger has dwelled among us. We have witnessed him walk without wavering through the valley of the shadow of death, speak truth to power, fight against violence and racism that seeks to choke Chicago’s Black communities.

N'DIGO: "The Plight Of Father Pfleger"  

 |   by Hermene Hartman   

Father Michael Pfleger grew up to become a Black leader. He was impressed with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as he led a civil rights movement on the southwest side of Marquette Park. King called it one of the most dangerous marches he had ever participated in. White young men, all Pfleger’s friends, and peers perched in the trees and hollered to the marchers. They called them “niggers,” “jungle bunnies,” “monkeys,” and told them to go back home.