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Flickr/May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.In this edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson has the story of the first Japanese-American to play… -
The Carbondale Branch of the NAACP is taking part in a statewide program dealing with racial healing.Branch President Linda Flowers says the Healing…
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In his first weeks in office, President Joe Biden has rolled back multiple federal policies that negatively affected LGBTQ+ people under former... -
WSIU's Jennifer Fuller talks with Prof. John Brittain about his lecture, "Awakening, Reckoning, and Mindfulness in 2020."Brittain is the 2021 SIU Law…
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The public is invited to an evening of learning Black history on February 24. Linda Flowers, President of the Carbondale Branch of the NAACP, says last…
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Late last year, Major League Baseball decided to alter its record books by adding Negro League statistics to baseball's official record.In his annual…
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November is Native American Heritage Month.In this edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson gives us a history lesson on the impact of Native Americans…
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In Illinois and around the country, an increasing number of universities, investigators and researchers are turning up evidence of systemic racism in the…
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Black-owned businesses in Illinois face significant barriers to growth and opportunities that would enable them to compete with their white-owned…
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Gov. JB Pritzker and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton unveiled a $4.5 million initiative Tuesday that is meant to foster dialogue and promote racial healing in…
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Redlining and gentrification were the latest topics discussed Thursday in a series of committee hearings spurred by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus…
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Women playing professional baseball is almost unheard of. Just over 20 years ago, a California woman had a successful college baseball career and made it…
