Beauty Turner
My blogs
- Rocking the Clock Fourteen Day To Barack
- The people struggle's
- Locked On The Block
- Beauty's Ghetto Bus Tours
- A Right to Write
- Ex-Opress Express News
- Millennium Movement's
- The Great Chicago fire
- The Underground Equator
- Windy City World Wind News
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Accounting |
| Occupation | Journalism |
| Location | Chicago, cook, Illinois, U.S. Outlying Islands |
| Introduction | Beauty Turner lived in the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the nation's most infamous public housing high-rise for sixteen years . She once worked for RJ now serves as Assistant Editor, South Street Journal writing award-winning investigative articles and commentaries and co-directing the Advocacy and Outreach Initiative. Beauty is a well-known community activist as well as a regular columnist for the Hyde Park Herald and other community newspapers. For the last several years, Beauty has worked as a research assistant for Professor Sudhir Venkatesh, a sociologist at Columbia University. Beauty is now a National award winning Journalist recognized by her peers with the First New America Award of it kind by the National Society of Professional Journalists, also a Winner of a Studs Terkel, Peter Lisagor, Associated Press award, Chicago Association for Black Journalist award, Courageous voice award for her activism, Black Pearl award, Woman of the Century award, and a Shero award from the Empowerment Zone Committee. Turner has been feature on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, Tribune (773)297-5619 Beautyturner@gmail.com |
| Interests | Fighting and writing against injustice!!!! |
| Favorite Movies | The Color Purple, West Side Story, Beauty and the Beast, Wizard of Oz, any created Story that will stir the soul to creativity. |
| Favorite Music | Gospel, blues, jazz, positive hip hop, neo soul, instrumental any type of music that will help the body, spirit, soul and mind relax. |
| Favorite Books | Langston Hughe- poetry Raisin and the Sun. Native Son. W.E.B. Dubois The souls of Black Folks. Books that make you want to do something to help your fellow men. |