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Urban League's closure leaves community-watchdog void
Sun, 11/23/2008 - 8:40am | Julie Wurth Contact Author
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Photo by: Vanda Bidwell

Urban League of Champaign County interim Director Sandra Jones and others are packing up to leave…

Grassroots history of the Douglass Community Center in Champaign, with pictures.

SufFragan Bishop Edward T. McGhee
Biography
Suffragan Bishop Edward T. McGhee is the Pastor and Founder of
Alpha & Omega Churcll of Jesus Christ, established in Champaign, Illinois in
1979. He was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. At the early age of…

Champaign school board's decision upsets crowd

Photo by: Darrell Hoemann

It was standing room-only Friday as the Champaign Unit 4 School Board held an emergency meeting at the Mellon Building in Champaign.
Sat, 03/18/2006 - 12:15pm | Anne…

CHAMPAIGN – Here's how the movie went: Denzel Washington plays a professor who forms a debate team at his Texas college in 1935. It's the Jim Crow era, and the team of black students is the first to debate teams from white colleges. They go…

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Two girls are at a Union party at the University. The music is loud and everyone is dancing to the music. One of the girls bumps into a Champaign resident. The girl proceeds to call her a "townie." This starts an argument and later a…

Two years ago, Student Affairs and the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations put out a national search for a new director for the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (BNAACC) after Nathaniel Banks left to become director of…

This study compares the academic performance of black
American graduate students who graduated from traditionally black
colleges (Group A) with the academic performance of black American
graduate students who graduated from historically white…

Report by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, on Fifth and Hill site.

CHAMPAIGN – Adrienne Spires has been a counselor, educator and parent of two daughters.

It's that last job that landed her on a panel alongside academics and agency directors who will help decide how to spend a $9 million Champaign County…