School Supplies Backpack Drive

Heavenly Seven, Local Media

Video property of WCIA 3 News in Champaign, IL.

The Heavenly Seven filled over 600 backpacks with school supplies and handed them out to underprivileged families around the Champaign area.

HeresOneForYa (YouTube Account) - WCIA

7 August 2010

This Life Ain't Gravy

Mentoring, Big Brothers Big Sisters,

From the book's back cover: This Life Ain’t Gravy follows the experiences of Justin, an African American teenager, and his white mentor Dylan. While Justin is struggling through junior high and high school in Champaign, Illinois, Dylan is taking classes at the University of Illinois. The disconnect between their lives becomes apparent in Justin’s illiteracy, delinquency and life in a single-parent household, but they develop an enduring relationship by eating, reading and playing basketball together. As certain obstacles in Justin’s life prove too difficult to overcome, Justin and Dylan find strength in a bond that provides both with something more powerful than their perceived individual limitations.

Dylan Hall

Liwalo na Liwe

2009

News-Gazette Clippings August 18-23 2010

News Gazette

18-23 August 2010

Ms. Elam - myspace

A citizen's blog on Champaign Unit 4

Champaign Schools, Consent Decree

Includes multiple references and comments on the Consent Decree and related issues involving racism in local public schooling.

Law, Race and Space group page

Reading Group, Notes

Page, including notes and readings, of Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities reading group, Law, Race and Space, includes notes on various issues facing African-Americans in Champaign-Urbana.

Lodges and Fraternities Folder

Masons, Elks, Fraternities, Sororities

Includes files on various community groups in Champaign, including the Elks, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Deborah Chapter, Free Masons, fraternities, sororities, and other social organizations composed and led by African-Americans in Champaign-Urbana and Danville.

Mercy Hospital School of Nursing School Folder

Nursing, Health

Includes photographs dating to early twentieth century, African-American applicants to the school and Doris Hoskins' notes on an article on the School prepared for the Through the Years newsletter.

Albert Shelton Laundry folder

Black-Owned Businesses, Cleaners

File on the Albert Shelton Laundry and Shelton family, one of the largest regional black-owned businesses in Champaign-Urbana in the twentieth century.

A Commemorative History of Champaign County Illinois: 1833-1983

Champaign County

Look for Blacks in index for references to African-American history at the County-wide level.

Patricia Miller and Willis C. Baker

Illinois Heritage Association

1983