Articles filed under Diversity
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How suburbs will mark the start of Black History Month, Chinese New Year on TuesdayJan 31, 2022 4:30 am - Tuesday marks the start of two big events on the calendar - Black History Month and the Chinese Lunar New Year. Throughout February, suburban communities, schools and co...
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Mount Prospect places Community Engagement Committee on pauseJan 26, 2022 12:00 am - Mount Prospect's Community Engagement Committee, created in 2019 to help celebrate the community's diversity, is on a "permanent pause" while the village's newly hired d...
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Mount Prospect hires help to boost diversity, inclusion effortsJan 24, 2022 4:30 am - Mount Prospect leaders have pledged to make diversity, equity, and inclusion a priority in the village, in light of last year's controversy over the police uniform patch...
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Black, white Wheaton churches to celebrate Black History Month togetherJan 24, 2022 4:30 am - Members of Hope Presbyterian Church and Bethel New Life Church, whose respective white and Black congregations share worship space in Wheaton, will celebrate Black Histo...
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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...