Cynthia Turner & Heartspeak's performance of "Jesus Knows"

Gospel, Cynthia Turner, Heartspeak

Cynthia Turner & Heartspeak's 2004 performance (reprise) of "Jesus Knows" featuring member, Whitney Keaton.

Cynthia Turner & Heartspeak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkeb-jLN8Dk&feature=related

2004

Champaign-Urbana Improvement Association: Records in the Papers of the National NAACP

Activism, Civil Rights, NAACP

Mention to records of the Champaign-Urbana Improvement Association in the archives of the NAACP.

Library of Congress

Terry Townsend testimony to University of Illinois Board of Trustees

Black Power, Activism, Project 500

University of Illinois Board of Trustees

2008

TESTIMONY
PROPOSED MERGER
BANK ONE AND FIRST CHICAGO NBD CORP
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1998
1:30 P.M.

Banking, Housing, Partnership Illinois

Includes directories of Community Collaboration for Economic Development and Mentors and history of partnership with University of Illinois.

TIn 1991 as the Assistant Executive Director of the Housing Authority
of Champaign County, I was appointed to serve on the Bank One
Community Reinvestment Advisory Committee to assist the bank in
developing strategies and policies to serve the needs of low and
moderate income neighborhoods. I served in that capacity until 1995.
During those four years, I saw Bank One work diligently and
proactively to meet the banking needs of the low to moderate income
neighborhoods as well as those of other income groups. As a result,
and because of another collaborative effort between banks such as
Bank One, city government, and grass root and community
organizations such as the Illinois Center for Citizens' Involvement,
Champaign County has an outstanding program to help the low and
moderate-income households become homeowners.
Consequently, when we started this small business venture in the
spring of 1997, Bank One was one of the frrst frnancial institutions we
called to the table to partner with us. They had already showed great
leadership in community collaboration in the homeownership area and
we knew they would jump at the chance to do the same in the small
business development area.
We the memberships of the Community Collaboration For Economic
Development of Champaign County (CCED) wholeheartedly endorse
the proposed merger between Bank One and the First Chicago NBD
Corporation. We believe that this merger will be good not only for
both of these fmancial institutions, but for the total communities they
serve as well. Thank you.

Westfield of dreams: Pitcher recalls final East-West Game at Comiskey Park

Ernie Westfield, Negro Leagues, Baseball

Paul Ladewski

2006

A Strategic approach to Community Health Improvement 2006-2011

Public Health, Champaign County Public Health District

Purpose Statement:

The Champaign County Community Health Plan provides a current portrait of the
health assets and needs of the residents of Champaign County.
Illinois state law requires every local health department to participate in this
process, called the Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs (IPLAN). This process
must be conducted at minimum every five years. The detailed assessment and plan
provides the foundation for evidence-based health planning and decision-making.
The essential elements of IPLAN are:
1. An organizational capacity assessment;
2. A community health needs assessment; and
3. A community health plan, focusing on a minimum of three priority health
problems.
The Champaign County Community Health Plan was created using a model called
“Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnership” (MAPP). This collaborative
approach to community health planning was developed by the National Association of
County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) in cooperation with the Public Health
Practice Program Office and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). MAPP helps communities form effective partnerships that can better identify
their unique circumstances and needs and use their resources wisely.
MAPP is a community-driven process. It is more intensive than other approaches
in that it requires a high level of participation from community organizations and
residents. This model employs a variety of methods to uncover community health trends,
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identify gaps in care, evaluate assets and – most importantly – develop and implement a
plan that successfully addresses community health needs.
The four components of MAPP
􀂄 The Community Health Status Assessment collects and analyzes health data and
describes health trends, risk factors, health behaviors and issues of special concern.
􀂄 Community Themes and Strengths Assessment uses participants to make a list of
issues of importance to the community, identify community assets and outline quality
of life concerns.
􀂄 The Local Public Health System Assessment measures the local public health system’s
ability to conduct essential public health services.
􀂄 The Forces of Change Assessment identifies local health, social, environmental or
economic trends that affect the community or public health system.
The Community Health Plan was initiated by the Champaign-Urbana Public Health
District to determine locally relevant health priorities to better serve the residents of
Champaign County. Public health issues demand collaborative and coordinated efforts to
minimize service duplication and excess cost, and to be successful in intervention. This
process provides both the community knowledge and support necessary for the
identification and management of health problems.
The Health District convened a diverse group of health providers, civic leaders
and community representatives to participate in this process. The goal is for all partners
in the local public health system to work together to implement the recommendations
outlined in this plan.

Awais Vaid and Diana Yates

Champaign Public Health District

2006

Parkland document - includes reference to Black Male Symposium

ACCESS Initiative List of Faith-Based Agencies in Champaign-Urbana

Religion, Churches

ACCESS Initiative

2011

Race, Roots, and Resistance: Revisiting the Legacies of Black Power Conference Program

Black Power, Black Experience on Campus

Includes panels on Black Power at University of Illinois.

From conference introduction:

“Race, Roots, and Resistance: Revisiting the Legacies of Black Power”
is the first of several conferences designed to reevaluate the Black Power Movement.
In the mainstream and even in the literature of the White left, “Black
Power” has been presented as a nihilistic moment in which African Americans
unleashed centuries of pent-up anger. A few scholars seem to acknowledge the
outpouring of cultural creativity, only to later reduce it to ideologically driven
Black nationalist discourse. “Race, Roots, and Resistance: Revisiting the Legacies
of Black Power” brings together major activist intellectuals of the era with
the generation of new scholars whose work is producing a reevaluation of the
legacy of the movement. It has been dubbed the “New Black Power Studies.”
And it promises a reinterpretation and re-imagination of Black Power. The
new scholarship, like the Black Power Movement itself includes several interpretative
trends, numerous themes and various political tendencies. “Race,
Roots, and Resistance: Revisiting the Legacies of Black Power” proposes to
present the diversity of the new scholarship and to place it in dialogue with the
Black Power generation. That pioneering generation of scholar-activists who
first held their fists to sky, sang “I’m Black and I’m Proud,” shouted “Power to the People,” forged the first “rainbow
coalitions,” and struggled more successfully than previous generations or other social movements to empower
women.
I welcome you to the conference “Race, Roots, and Resistance: Revisiting the Legacies of Black Power.” I welcome
you to the dialogue.
Sundiata K. Cha-Jua

Department of African-American Studies

Unpublished conference program

March-April 2006

Champaign Community Unit School District #4 Demographic Study

Schools, Education, Demographics, Consent Decree

From introduction:

Introduction
This demographic study was developed in response to a
request for proposal (RFP) published by the Champaign
Community Unit School District #4. The deliverables in this
report include:
• Details on methodology, data collection and findings.
• Ten (10) year forecast of enrollment and population within
the district by grade level and by planning area, including
socioeconomic/racial characteristics of students.
• Demographic maps, tables and charts.
Cropper GIS prepared the demographic mapping and analysis.
McKibben Demographic Research prepared the demographic
analysis and enrollment forecasts and acted as lead contact
with the district.

Champaign Unit 4 School District, McKibben Demographics and Cropper GIS

Unpublished report

April 2008