“I know the struggles many of you face, how you walk the long way home to avoid the gangs; how you fight to concentrate on your schoolwork when there’s too much noise at home; how you keep it together when your family’s having a hard time making ends meet. But more importantly, I know […]
Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton said that the last three months have been an excruciatingly painful odyssey that has left her and her husband clinging “just to hold on.” It was at the end of January she and Nathaniel A. Pendleton Sr. learned that their 15-year-old daughter,Hadiya, had been killed by gunfire in a Chicago playground while trying to avoid […]
First Lady Michelle Obama returned to Chicago on Wednesday to join Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and prominent business leaders in hopes of raising awareness and money…
I got the call while I was in a meeting,” recalls Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton. “Normally, I would have let it go, but something said take the call. It was one of Hadiya’s friends and she was screaming from her gut, ‘Hadiya’s been shot! Hadiya’s been shot!’ I’m hearing her but I’m screaming too, ‘Where’s my […]
Cleopatra Cowley, mother of the Chicago teen shot and killed just a week after performing at President Barack Obama’s inauguration, is featured in a new public service announcement calling on Congress to reform the nation’s gun laws. In the ad, paid for by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Cowley advocates for universal background checks on all […]
Two Chicago men have been charged with the murder of Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old high school honor student who was gunned down at a Kenwood Park late last month only days after marching at President Obama’s inauguration. Micheail Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, each were charged Monday with one count of first-degree murder and two […]
Chicago police are questioning two people for the murder of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton. Two men were pulled over near 67th and South Chicago, early Sunday. Law enforcement sources tell the Tribune they are gang members, one of whom has a previous weapons conviction. The men are said to be 18-years-old and 20-years-old. The Sun-Times […]
Hundreds of mourners and dignitaries including first lady Michelle Obama packed the funeral Saturday for a Chicago honor student whose killing catapulted her into the nation’s debate over gun violence. Yet one speaker after another remembered 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton not so much as a symbol but as a best friend, an excellent student with […]
First Lady Michelle Obama is planning on attending the Saturday funeral services for slain teenager Hadiya Pendleton, who has become a national symbol for the growing problem of gun and gang violence in the city of Chicago. Obama will be accompanied at the funeral by Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to the president, and […]
Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old honor student in Chicago slain in a park just days after returning from the inaugural celebration in Washington, D.C., will be buried on Saturday. The family of the teenager has announced that visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at Calahan Funeral Home, located at 7030 Halstead. A wake […]
NBC confirms that a young Hadiya Pendleton, the 15 year-old girl whose life was suddenly cut short due to a gang-related shooting in Chicago yesterday, appeared in a public service announcement against gang violence, which has recently surfaced on YouTube. The video, produced by the Digital Youth Network and posted to YouTube in November of 2008, features young […]
Friends who witnessed the random gunning down of a 15-year-old Chicago girl less than a week after she performed at President Obama’s inauguration continue to grapple with the senseless loss of the prep school honors student. “She was honestly like the happiest person I know and I don’t know, like, how to cope with this because it […]
