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A Historical Look at SIU: What’s in a Lake?

A Historical Look at SIU: What’s in a Lake?

By Ryan Jurich , Staff Reporter
November 19, 2021
A Historical Look at SIU: When Halloween was Official

A Historical Look at SIU: When Halloween was Official

By Ryan Jurich , Staff Reporter
October 21, 2021

Cook County city becomes first in the nation to provide housing reparations for Black residents

By Oreoluwa Ojewuyi and Courtney Alexander
April 7, 2021
Evie Allen (center) poses for a photograph with her mother, Clarissa Allen (left), and her aunt, Anita Csaszar (right), Feb. 13, 2021, in Marion, Ill. The three women discussed how, no matter what hairstyle or texture someone has, it should be accepted and embraced because it is not for any one person to dictate what hairstyles are right or wrong. “Whatever I do to my hair, it’s me that I’ve got to please, even though we’ve spent so much time trying to please somebody else,” Clarissa Allen said.

Uncoiling the Black hair struggle

By Oreoluwa Ojewuyi, Staff Reporter
March 2, 2021
Group of African Americans inspecting damage. Photo courtesy of the Sangamon Valley Collection at Lincoln Library.

Historians reflect on the Springfield Race Riot of 1908 during Black History Month

By Courtney Alexander, Staff Reporter
February 24, 2021
Dorothy Carter sits for portrait on Feb. 12 at her home in Marion, Ill. Born Jan. 25, 1918, Carter celebrated her 103rd birthday. She has lived in southern Illinois most of her life and has seen the area’s attitude towards race change during her time. “It’s much better now. We’re all mixed together now,” Carter said. “From thinking way back when we wasn’t allowed to associate together, now we are all friends together. We are all socialized together, we go to school together, it’s much different than it used to be years ago. It’s a pleasure to know that we all can get along in this world together. It’s more fun now than it used to be.”

Marion woman celebrates 103 years of life

By Nicolas Galindo, Managing Editor
February 24, 2021
“Understanding Our New World” Paul Simon Public Policy Institute hosts discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning historian

“Understanding Our New World” Paul Simon Public Policy Institute hosts discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning historian

By Danny Connolly, Guest Writer
April 30, 2020
Pulliam Hall is reflected in a puddle on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, outside of Pulliam Hall in Carbondale, Illinois.

‘There’s been nothing to challenge us like this crisis,’ Faculty respond to COVID-19 pandemic

By Kallie Cox, News Editor
March 20, 2020
Jack Gebert, 24, of Crystal Lake, gazes up at the light spilling through a shaft inside the famous 55-foot-wide riverside cave on March 17 at Cave-In-Rock State Park by the Ohio River. Gebert traveled to the cave with his 20-year-old brother, Daniel, while the two were on a three-day camping trip in the Shawnee National Forest. It was the brothers’ first time at the state park. “This place is really impressive,” Gebert said. “Obviously, there are pictures on the internet of the cave, but actually being in it is just so awesome.”

Opinion: Top destinations in southern Illinois

By Juniper Oxford, Staff Reporter
January 20, 2020
People in an old car, with the name Carbondale written on it, celebrating the Fourth of July. Photo courtesy of Morris Library Special Collections Research center, collection of “Neighboring Celebration,” from July 4, 1968.

The history of Carbondale’s Fourth of July celebrations

By Tahereh Rahimi, Staff Reporter
July 4, 2019
Pulliam Hall towers over the Carbondale skyline on Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.

Southern Illinois University: 150 Years and counting

By Emily Cooper, Staff Reporter
March 4, 2019
Pulliam Hall towers over the Carbondale skyline on Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.

SIU students translate untold stories from German women resisting the Nazi Regime

By Emily Cooper, Staff Reporter
February 13, 2019
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