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Brandon Bell grew up in Normal and now resides in St. Louis.Bell spoke with Ariele Jones for the WGLT series Living Black in Bloomington-Normal. Contact…
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Jen Brooks was born and raised in Bloomington. She worked at State Farm for a few years before becoming a language arts teacher. She taught at Peoria…
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Many transgender individuals--people who seek to change their gender--once felt compelled to live largely secret lives. Buoyed by the strides the gay…
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Local police officials will face citizens tonight at a meeting called by the the community group Not In Our Town, the local NAACP and other civic…
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President Obama is calling for a sustained national conversation about what he calls "simmering distrust" between police and minority communities. We…
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Grand Jury decisions in Ferguson Missouri and New York City not to indict white officers for killing unarmed black men has provoked a kind of national…
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Traffic stops account for the most common encounters citizens have with local law enforcement. Most stops are routine. Others can provoke considerable…
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Over the past four decades, courts and legislatures have given increasingly broad powers to the police. According to constitutional law experts, there's…
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In the mostly minority Ferguson, Missouri neighborhood where Michael Brown lived, residents have taken what they call a pro-active approach to monitoring…