Articles filed under Diversity
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Why teaching about critical race theory has become a lightning rod in suburban schoolsJan 22, 2022 12:00 am - Suburban teachers are figuring out ways to talk about race and racism and their roles in history to challenge timeworn methods for teaching about the past. Whether such...
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Korean Cultural Center in Wheeling to open special exhibit SaturdayJan 20, 2022 12:00 am - The Korean Cultural Center of Chicago in Wheeling will hold a special exhibition beginning Saturday to celebrate Lunar New Year. The exhibition aims to show the beauty ...
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Takei memoir selected for One Book, One BataviaJan 18, 2022 12:00 am - The Batavia Public Library has chosen the graphic novel "They Called Us Enemy" by actor George Takei as this year's selection for One Book, One Batavia, according to a n...
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Dist. 220's first Black teacher discovers her great-great-uncle was a trailblazer in Arlington HeightsJan 17, 2022 4:30 am - Sharon LeCompte was a college student at Illinois State University in 1968 when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated — a time when her history professor beli...
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Suburban pastor recalls how MLK inspired churches to actionJan 17, 2022 4:30 am - James Shannon was 7 years old when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. first came to Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Dexter Avenue was among the more pr...
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Suburban Mosaic: Illinois to observe Muhammad Ali Day along with MLK on Jan. 17Jan 10, 2022 4:30 am - Many suburban communities will mark another Martin Luther King Jr. Day with remembrances and celebrations on Monday, Jan. 17. But this year, Illinoisans will celebrate a...
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Suburban Mosaic: How we covered our diverse suburban communities in 2021, and what we have in store for 2022Jan 03, 2022 4:30 am - It's been a momentous year for our rich suburban mosaic of diverse communities, not the least of which was weathering Year Two of an unrelenting pandemic together. In th...
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Benedictine University program aims to help create diverse women leadersDec 20, 2021 4:30 am - A new program at Benedictine University in Lisle aims to help create diverse women leaders and future change agents. L.E.A.D.S. - Leadership, Empowerment, Action, Develo...
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Suburban immigration advocates push to include immigration reform in Build Back BetterDec 17, 2021 12:00 am - Members of the Round Lake-based immigration advocacy group Mano a Mano marched with hundreds of other advocates in Washington D.C. last weekend, urging that a pathway to...
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Analysis: Disproportionate share of defendants in Cook County are BlackDec 13, 2021 4:30 am - The number of people charged in criminal cases has declined steadily in Cook County over the last two decades. But a closer look at the trend reveals stark racial dispar...