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Warren Ribley, director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced $3,398,444 of capital funding money will be used to create more opportunities. The opportunities reach out to those who don't have the proper education or skills to work in high-tec jobs. Of the lump sum of money, the Black Star Project received $270,000. That money will go towards training the individuals interested in high-tech jobs.

The Founder and Executive Director of the Black Star Project, Phillip Jackson, has announced he is running for the 26th Representative District of Illinois. This decision in turn will have the ability to help lower income communities in the Chicago land area. What he hopes to do is increase funding for school, sensible gun laws, etc. which will contribute to the success of the individuals involved in the Black Star Project. (PHILLIP JACKSON)

The Black Star Project is an organization that works to improve the life of black and Latino communities in Chicago, Illinois, as well as, work to eliminate the racial academic achievement gap.

The organization finds it important to start with promoting responsible black male engagement in the lives of their children. A grant will help further the process of promoting leadership and empowering young black males. In the end, the organization hopes to improve the lives of these young black men by focusing on education reform and fair discipline policies. PROGRAMS

'''The Black Star Project was founded by Phillip Jackson in 1996. The organizations mission is to provide educational services for pre-school through college students to hep them succeed academically and become productive citizens.'''

African American communities need to come together to form unity for their children education and the opportunities that they have. The ultimate goal for them is to get as many people from the community involved so no one is left behind in this fight for equality. (MISSION)

The Black Star Project was started in 1996 with a goal of eliminating the gap between race and education. This project gets the children and parents to have a positive influence on their education and they have seen that the more fathers that go out and help, the better the influence on the child.(MISSION) Because they wanted to see more fathers getting involved with their children they started the Million Fathers March, which is a march that fathers join to walk their kids to school.(PROGRAMS)

One of the programs that The Black Star Project provides is The Fathers Club. This club strives to create affordable events for fathers to spend quality time with their children. Philip Jackson, the founder and executive director, created this program because of the importance of a male figure in a child's life. (PROGRAM)

The Black Star Project has counted 53 youth whose age under 18 years old, have been killed in Chicago during the year 2008 to 2009. (PROGRAM)

The executive director of Black Star, Philip Jackson even compared this situation with Iraq war in 2003, “Since the Iraq war started in 2003, we've lost 10 soldiers who resided in this city, and that's awful, but during that same time, we've lost about 300 of our children. So, you tell me: Is this not a war?" Community violence threaten school children and teens. Although people keep making campaign and want to prevent community violence, it doesn’t make much effective changes. Similar situation also happens in another big city, Los Angeles. In 2016, Chicago’s stewardship reported that host sport games help preventing community violence and protecting children from violence. In Southern California, Los Angeles Games has provided more than $185 million to support youth sport programs. The reported claimed, Chicago needs to considered this as a model to solve the similar problem. However, in Southern California communities, gang-infested violence rate remains high. The issue will not be solved that fast, finding an effective solution needs effort and takes time. (PROGRAM)

On June. 24th, 2017, Black Star Project started fourth annual ceremony for black males’ graduation. The Executive director Philip Jackson thinks the education is hope to change violence behaviors even improve the whole city. (PROGRAMS)

The Black Star Project strives to provide more opportunities for African American and Hispanics. This is done by providing educational tools for all ages, parent and mentoring programs, school outreach, special events, and national initiatives. (MISSION)

The Million Father March is a program started under The Black Star Project. It was adopted in 2004 by 9 men who saw a need for father's support in schools. In this program male figures such as fathers, uncles, grandfathers, or father figures accompany children to school. This program has become a national program that is now adopted by other states. States such as Florida, Pennsylvania, California, and more now participate but alter details for their liking. (PROGRAMS)

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 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * The article I read was about the Glass Slipper Project. The page gives very basic information about what it is and is tells the reader what the project is and there is nothing distracting in the article.
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 * The article is completely neutral and gives a basis on what the project is. It is not biased about whether or not the organization does well or poorly or if it is a good idea.
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 * The only viewpoint that is represented in this article is the history of it. The article leaves out a lot of updated information about how it is doing now, how many girls the organization has helped out. Why it was started and the reasoning behind it. There are so many viewpoints that can be made about the organization that will give more in depth information about the Glass Slipper Project.
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 * The references try to cite the Chicago Tribune and The Oprah Winfrey Show, which would have been reliable sources because they are not coming from the organization itself. But it depends on what the links would have said. I'm guessing the Chicago Tribune article would have been unbiased because it would have been written from a journalist, but it is unsure on how unbiased the article would have been since the link is unfound.
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 * A lot of information can be added to this page like why the organization was started, how many girls has this organization helped out, how they continue to grow and help others. And the page can even add on how the reader can help out if they decided to. I also think an address of where the headquarters is would be a valuable piece of information.
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