Melodi Serna (right), executive director of the American Indian Center, who is from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Oneida Nation, hugs Nizhoni Ward, ...

“Nope, we'll probably never see it,” Melodi Serna, executive director of the American Indian Center of Chicago, said of the settlement money.

Native American journalists and advocates discussed impacts of COVID-19, voter suppression of Native peoples and underreported stories in Indigenous communities in a Tuesday panel. The event ...

Melodi Serna, general manager at Tease Salon and Spa in Pilsen, has seen it all. And she’s not judging. While male grooming and manscaping has been an accepted practice for years, the idea of a ...

Melodi Serna, executive director of the American Indian Center, said colleagues were surprised to learn that her photo is in Wolin’s book, her personal bout with homelessness for three years ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The American Indian Center of Chicago is planning to celebrate its 70th anniversary next year. "Seventy years is a long time to be a small nonprofit," AIC Executive Director ...

Melodi Serna talks about the culture shock she experienced growing up as a Native American living with her grandparents. She was bullied throughout her life, which caused her to start misbehaving.

Urban Natives in Chicago don't expect any opioid settlement money because of the absence of tribal land in Illinois, part of a larger funding issue.