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"They played the game of baseball Because they loved the game, Never did they think that it Would be harder to get into The Baseball Hall of Fame" -- Excerpt from the poem Negro League Black Men by Ernie Westfield Last week, Barbara Broome received…

David Blackwell, a statistician and mathematician who wrote groundbreaking papers on probability and game theory and was the first black scholar to be admitted to the National Academy of Sciences, died July 8 in Berkeley, Calif. He was 91.

The…

The cities of Champaign and Urbana honored Champaign residents Ernie Westfield and J.W. Pirtle Saturday afternoon as part of the National Negro Baseball League Recognition Day to be held Tuesday.

Both honorees played in the Negro Leagues during…

This source is the booklet from the twenty-eighth annual Cotillion Ball held in April of 2000 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center. It includes biographies and photographs of Ocean Biggers, Shakeela Buchanan, Alisa Cooper, Katherine Freeman, Nafisah…

Clippings on Candy Foster and Shades of Blue, a local R&B band.

Report on discrimination in jury selection in Champaign County juries.

CHAMPAIGN – A few hundred children will be ready to start school, thanks to a group of men who provide the supplies as a community service project.

They call themselves the Heavenly Seven Club (although there are now about 15 men in the…

eBlackChampaign-Urbana seeks to use
digital technology to connect interested individuals to the dispersed
documentation of African-American experiences in Champaign-Urbana. We
currently have nearly 500 digitized texts, photographs, audio and…

This source is the booklet from the twenty-seventh annual Cotillion Ball held in March of 1999 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center. It includes biographies and photographs of Sharial Anderson, Dionne Clifton, Kamilah Davis, Sherrika Ellison, Grace…

This source is the booklet from the twenty-sixth annual Cotillion Ball held in April of 1998 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center. It includes biographies and photographs of Angela Burnett, Sarah Butler, Corisma Carter, Shayonda Davenport, Zewditu…