This source is the booklet from the thirtieth annual Cotillion Ball held in April of 2002 at the Holiday Inn Grand Ballroom. It includes biographies and photographs of Brittany Algee, Ashley Cooper, Ashley Davis, Arian Davis, Anastasia Tanner-Harold,…
This qualitative study is an exploratory case analysis of First String, a Community
Team Inc., a unique grassroots association founded by a small group of African Americans in Champaign,
Illinois. The founders established the neighbourhood baseball…
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 230 pp.
In the late 1960s, Black students at predominantly White and historically Black campuses across the nation reevaluated the education they received in institutions of higher…
This study explores the musical life of Alpha and Omega, an Apostolic Pentecostal church located in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. A member of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Alpha and Omega was founded in 1979, and its youthful constituency,…
This research was a qualitative case study designed (a) to examine the relationship between two higher education organizations and an Urban League affiliate that came together in response to a National Urban League, Inc. resolution to improve the…
"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.
