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Rodney Cavitt, of Carbondale, holds a candle and a photo of Xe’Quan Campbell on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, alongside Freeman Street in Carbondale at the Vigil for Xe’Quan Campbell and Keon Cooper.

The Revolving door of gun control

By Oreoluwa Ojewuyi, Staff Reporter
May 12, 2021
Sunrise over the new alumni statue in front of Pullium on the SIU Carbondale campus Tuesday, August 18, 2020. Nicole Tillberg | @nicoltillberg315

SIU system discusses race and athletics

By Janae Mosby, Staff Reporter
April 27, 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
Co-organizer Jerricha Griffin, a Law student at SIU, speaks during the Justice for Breonna Taylor event at the Carbondale police station on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, in Carbondale, IL. Griffin speaks about the disrespect that Black women face in today's society.

Black women in southwestern Illinois want real changes from Kamala Harris win

By DeAsia Paige, Belleville News-Democrat, Tribune Content Agency
November 13, 2020
Nancy Maxwell, the grassroots director of the So. Illinois Unity Coalition, leads the way during the Vienna Rally for Racial Justice. The rally was met with a number of counter-protesters and onlookers. The event took place because of the recent Vienna high school Snapchat group called, "We hate Black people". The rally took place on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 in city park in Vienna, IL.

If not us then who?-Activists fight against police brutality

By Oreoluwa Ojewuyi, Staff Reporter
November 13, 2020
President Donald J. Trump addresses the crowd during the Murphysboro campaign rally, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, at the Southern Illinois Airport. (Isabel Miller | @IsabelMillerDE)

Will the race change? A breakdown of post-election concepts and their effects

By Danny Connolly, Staff Reporter
November 12, 2020
Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016 as he rallies supporters for Hillary Clinton in Orlando, Fla. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

Biden’s first-day plans range from COVID to climate, guns, labor

By Jeffrey Taylor, John Tozzi, Greg Stohr and Jennifer A. Dlouhy Bloomberg News, Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC
November 8, 2020
Voters are set to cast their ballots at the Carbondale Civic Center in Carbondale, Ill., on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.

With all precincts reporting Cervantez takes lead in State’s Attorney race, Kupferer takes narrow lead in coroner’s race

By Keaton Yates, Staff Reporter
November 4, 2020
President Donald J. Trump addresses the crowd during the Murphysboro campaign rally, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, at the Southern Illinois Airport. (Isabel Miller | @IsabelMillerDE)

Trump falsely claims ‘we have already won’ election and threatens to go to the Supreme Court

By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, Tribune Content Agency
November 4, 2020
A voter passes election day signage placed inside the Carbondale Civic Center Nov. 3 in Carbondale, Ill.

How long it may take: Where the election stands in key states

By Bloomberg News, Tribune Content Agency
November 4, 2020
Mike Bost reelected as 12th District Congressman

Mike Bost reelected as 12th District Congressman

By Brooke Buerck, Editor
November 3, 2020
People maintain their 6-foot social distancing while waiting to vote at the Carbondale Civic Center Nov. 3, in Carbondale, Ill.

Gallery: Scenes from southern Illinois polls

By Photo Desk, Daily Egyptian
November 3, 2020
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