Exhibit on African American miners fuels Southern Illinois project
A SIUC exhibit documents Black miners experiences highlighting racism and camaraderie in coal towns. Researchers include Buchsbaum Dan Overturf Eric Robinson and others with advisers Simon and Mead. Speakers feature Ownly Williams and Charles Gude. Funded by Illinois Humanities Council and SIUC Coal Research Center. plans to travel regionally and appear at Southeastern Illinois College and John A. Logan College.
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Charles Drew Blood Drive Campaign To Be Introduced In Carbondale
A new Charles Drew Community Blood Donation Campaign meeting aimed at the black community will be held Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Carbondale Public Library. WDPX’s Melvin Holder leads with the American Red Cross to explain blood donation for sickle cell patients and to encourage black churches to participate.
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Survey shows gaps in Illinois school sex education
A statewide survey of 417 sexuality educators in grades 6 to 12 across 24 Southern Illinois counties finds schools still teach too little and too late. Illinois teen birthrates fell about 24 percent from 1991 to 2000, with 21,108 births in 2000 and 11.4 percent of all births. Hardin County posted the highest rate in 2000, while Jackson and Union counties had the lowest. Further county data are available from the Illinois Department of Public Health.
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Perry County court decides uncommon adult trial fate
A Perry County case ended with both youths tried as adults and sentenced to life. The report recalls a decade of similar moves, naming Michael Valliant and other teens charged as adults in murder, armed robbery, and attempted murder cases across Franklin, Carbondale, Pittsburg, Mounds, and surrounding areas.
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Michael Corney
Carbondale
Franklin County
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Walker
Joshua Vancil
Pittsburg
Vancil
Accuracy Hotline Corrects Lincoln Library Opening URL
The Southern Illinois newspaper notes an incorrect Web address in Thursday's Lincoln library opening story. The correct site is www100.state.il.us/ and the paper provides hotline numbers for accuracy corrections.
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