Articles filed under Diversity
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Suburban Mosaic: Teen starts nonprofit to get more girls interested in STEM fieldsJun 20, 2022 5:30 am - Growing up, mathematics always was a big part of Ruby Arun's life. A first-generation Indian American, Ruby, 15, of Inverness, has been participating in school math team...
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Straight from the Source: Fatherhood in the era of JuneteenthJun 18, 2022 1:00 am - As a father of three children - Deandre the only boy and the oldest, Deandrea, and Deanna, the baby of the bunch - I consider myself to be overwhelmingly blessed. It is...
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Juneteenth festivals and fun coming in suburbs, but organizers see more than celebrationsJun 17, 2022 5:20 am - Suburbanites will mark the year-old federal and state holiday of Juneteenth with a weekend of festivals, parades, flag-raisings and other celebrations. But the holiday o...
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Longtime District 62 bilingual program director retiringJun 13, 2022 5:30 am - A Puerto Rican transplant, Milagros Bravo was an instructional specialist at Des Plaines Elementary District 62 when she was asked to help set up the district's bilingua...
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With a Pulitzer and now a top Tony, 'A Strange Loop' makes historyJun 12, 2022 1:00 am - NEW YORK - "A Strange Loop," an irreverent, sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness took home the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on Sunday, as voter...
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'Positivity on display': After week of uncertainty, Aurora Pride parade a hitJun 12, 2022 1:00 am - Despite some eleventh-hour uncertainty and even intermittent morning showers, the Aurora Pride parade made a triumphant post-pandemic return Sunday. An enthusiastic crow...
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Youthage Culinary in Mundelein teaches kids how to be healthy through cookingJun 07, 2022 6:00 am - When Chef Robert Collins was stabbed in the neck in 2007 while deployed in Spain as a customs agent for the U.S. Navy, he made a deal with God. "I told God, 'If you pull...
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Pride flag now flying over Buffalo Grove's Ernie Karge Rotary Village GreenJun 07, 2022 6:00 am - With local and state officials and LGBTQ+ supporters watching, Prairie View resident Bob Pinta hoisted the rainbow Pride flag over the Ernie Karge Rotary Village Green i...
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Batavia officials raise rainbow flag, hear about LGBTQ+ needs, eventsJun 07, 2022 1:00 am - For the second year in a row, the city of Batavia is flying a rainbow flag to mark Pride Month. But this time, it did so with a public ceremony - and presentations at th...
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Grayslake speller makes it to Scripps National Spelling Bee finalsJun 06, 2022 5:30 am - Grayslake speller Sahasrad Sathish was among 13 finalists competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals Thursday. Just minutes into the eighth round, Sahasrad, ...