Actions speak louder than words.

Monica Haslip charts the success of her Bronzeville youth arts institution, Little Black Pearl, and unveils exciting expansions you may not have heard about.

http://www.thechicagourbanleague.org - nextTV visits Monica Haslip and the "Little Black Pearl" workshop in Chicago's North Kenwood neighborhood. Monica shows how she is teaching kids not only the beauty, but the business of art.

Saatchi Art teamed up with MINI USA and Little Black Pearl to promote literacy in Chicago by launching The Library Project, an initiative that provides access to books through mobile libraries placed in local parks. To learn more about #MINILibraries, visit https://www.miniusa.com/chicagoland.

Susana Vasquez, Executive Director of LISC Chicago, receives support from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Alderman Will Burns, QCDC, Blue Cross Blue Shield and the local community on September 24, 2013 at Little Black Pearl. LISC Chicago is leading a three-year fundraising campaign for stronger neighborhoods to raise $40 Million.

LBP and Fresh Films

The video is a brief history of how Monica Haslip 20 years ago created Little Black Pearl to introduce the children on the south side of Chicago to art as a means of expression through the struggles and challenges of growing up in the community that experiences youth violence daily.

Black Muse: A lively conversation with Monica Haslip

Little Black Pearl & The Jordan Brand

At Little Black Pearl art center on west 47th Street, a group of teenagers got ready to record a piece of music on Monday. The art center is a place where teenagers and children come to sing, but also to paint, sculpt and act—generally just to express themselves creatively.

Monica Haslip is the Founder and Executive Director of Little Black Pearl Art and Design Center and Academy in Chicago, Ill., and is the Clinton School of Public Service Center on Community Philanthropy’s Distinguished Scholar in Racial Healing Practice. Founded in 1994, LBP is an innovative Arts and Culture Institution designed to create positive vehicles for children to thrive.

Join Monica Haslip for a tour of this exciting institutionIts mission: "is to create opportunities for youth and adults to deepen their creative involvement through the arts, cultivate their entrepreneurial skills and use the arts as a means for economic empowerment and community transformation

Idan Raichel jams with the kids in a music production class at the Little Black Pearl Art and Design Center in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago

Big Things at Little Black Pearl

Little Black Pearl is a thriving nonprofit serving youth in the Kenwood/Oakland, Woodlawn, and Bronzeville neighborhoods on Chicago's south side.