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Midwest, Opinion

Southern Illinois media fail to report whole story of Chinese-American professor wrongly targeted by feds

  • By Edward Benyas
  • September 29, 2022

In April 2021, the federal government indicted a Southern Illinois University Carbondale professor under the “China Initiative,” alleging two.

Media News, Midwest

Recovering the history of free Black settlements in Illinois

  • By Amelia Blakely
  • June 22, 2021

When Kimberly France, a descendant of free African-American pioneers, first approached Toni Craig to help piece together her family’s.

Media News, Midwest

“Shifting the spirit of the nation”: How one humanities project addresses slavery and citizenship

  • By Amelia Blakely
  • April 27, 2021

It is one of the more unlikely places – a rural community struggling to move on from its “sundown.

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