People in the Carbondale community gathered on Feb. 27 to remember Amir Locke, a 22 year-old Black man who was killed by Minneapolis police executing a no-knock warrant on Feb. 2.
“It’s sad to me...
By Janiyah Gaston, Assistant to Editor
• February 23, 2022
Racial tensions in the United States have increased to the point to where HBCUs (historically black colleges) have now started to receive bomb threats.
So far more than a dozen HBCUs across the U.S....
By Janiyah Gaston, Assistant to the Editor
• February 22, 2022
Today a jury in Brunswick, Georgia, found Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William Bryan guilty of federal hate crimes for their involvement in the death of Ahmaud Arbery.
Arbery was an African...
By Jamilah Lewis, Staff Reporter
• February 18, 2022
A grade seven student that passed out "White Privilege" cards to Black students at Unity Elementary School, threatened multiple times to harm students and staff at the school.
Terrisha Adams, a parent...
Chris Bishop
Chris Bishop is a senior at SIU and the multimedia editor of the Daily Egyptian. He is in the cinema department and is graduating in December 2021. He is originally from St. Louis...
On December 1, 2021 Southern Illinois University Carbondale students and faculty marched from Faner to Anthony hall, where the chancellor and provost offices are located, to protest the ongoing gun violence...
Southern Illinois University’s School of Medicine is helping combat the opioid epidemic by freely distributing nasal spray that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.
The Illinois Department...
By Ryan Jurich , Staff Reporter
• October 21, 2021
Halloween in Carbondale has a well-deserved reputation of almost mythical proportion. From car flipping and beer tossing to keggers and John Candy, this Halloween we look back at the holiday’s long tradition...
Law enforcement agencies are now offering $15,000 in rewards for information in the shooting death of SIU-C freshman Keeshanna Jackson. The FBI’s Springfield Division announced Tuesday it is putting...
By Joel Kottman , Staff Reporter
• September 17, 2021
Local community organizers are calling for police reform after a video, recorded on Aug. 28, showed Kiveon Crawford, a twenty-eight-year-old Herrin man, wrestled to the ground, handcuffed and tasered twice...
On Sunday, Aug. 22, SIUC freshman Keeshanna Jackson was shot and killed at 3:12 am on 501 W. Cherry on her way back to her dorm.
Jackson attended a college party like hundreds of other students during...
Friends and family are mourning Keeshanna "Shanna" Jackson, shot and killed early Sunday morning in a multi-victim shooting.
At 3:12 a.m, the City of Carbondale Police Department arrived at the 500...
