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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…

This source is the booklet from the twenty-fifth annual Cotillion Ball held in March of 1997 at the Chancellor Hotel, in Champaign, Illinois. It contains the biographies and photographs of Danielle Adkins, Angela Avery, Tamaca Bailey, Roxanne…

This source is the booklet from the twenty-fourth annual Cotillion Ball held in March of 1996 at the Chancellor Hotel. It includes biographies and photographs of Kendra Allen, Unique Ammons, Beth Bowie, Mya Brown, LaShaundra Lockett, Christina…