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Black History Showcase draws hundreds to GSUThe 2026 Black History Showcase at Governors State University, which celebrates African American history, achievement and culture, drew more than 500 students from five area school districts.The event included a m...
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Alan Torres Eugene Register-Guard Show Caption Oregon has one of the smallest populations of Black residents in the U.S., a reality shaped by its history. Oregon was the only state to include a Black exclusion law in its founding constitution in 1859. Despi...
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Courtney Carson did not want to go to the Decatur church that November day in 1999 when the Rev. Jesse Jackson came to town for a rally. To do so, he remembered all these years later, was to admit a truth he had been trying to deny, that he had taken part i...
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The ground shifted under Chicago last fall. What’s normal in the city’s majority-Latino communities today isn’t what it was before Operation Midway Blitz.The Southeast Side, long defined by steel mills and working-class communities, was one of the first pla...
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The world in early 2026 carries heavy challenges, with more active conflicts than since World War II—each touching the lives of families who, like ours, worry about safety, homes, and futures for their kids. These crises bring profound loss and fear to peop...
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PoliticsBABY BUMPEDJosh Fiallo Breaking News Reporter Updated Oct. 30 2025 2:12PM EDT / Published Oct. 30 2025 11:00AM EDT US SenatePresident Donald Trump’s surgeon general appointee went into labor on the same day she was set to be questioned in a confirma...
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Since Donald Trump took office in January, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has kept the Trump administration busy with lawsuits related to education, healthcare, workforce cuts and elections.So far, Weiser has filed 41 lawsuits against the Trump Admin...
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JB Pritzker'No child should be forced to inhale tear gas or other chemical agents while trick or treating in their own neighborhood,' Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland SecurityBy Izzy Stroobandt • Published October ...
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UPDATE (October 30, 2025, 9:17 a.m. ET): This post has been updated to reflect that the Senate HELP committee has postponed its confirmation hearing with the administration’s surgeon general nominee, Dr. Casey Means.
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