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The City of Bloomington has announced the 2025 winners of its annual Black History Essay Contest. You'll hear them this month on WGLT's Sound Ideas, or you can listen on-demand below.
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The celebrated former TV journalist Garry Moore will give a presentation called “Why Black History and DEI Matter" tonight at the Laborers hall in Bloomington.
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Waddell was a Bloomington native who became a celebrated classical vocalist in Europe and the United States, mentoring many others along the way.
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Three prominent African American musicians from the Bloomington-Normal area spoke Saturday at a panel at the McLean County Museum of History.
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Co-professors Eric Wesselmann and Stanford Carpenter's honors seminar on Black horror films was well-received by students and the public. The Normal Theater pressed them to mix up a new course focused on 1970s blaxploitation films.
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Scholars Stanford Carpenter and Eric Wesselmann co-teach a course on horror films with Black protagonists, villains and anti-heroes. Carpenter helped coin the term EthnoGothic to capture how different people respond to horror based on race, culture and social identity.
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WGLT's McHistory series features Richard Blue, the first Black person to run for council in Bloomington. He was also a Civil War veteran, activist, member of a literary society, doorman at the state capital, and barber.
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The community celebrated Juneteenth on Saturday at Miller Park. The event was hosted by the Bloomington-Normal Black History Project in partnership with the City of Bloomington.
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Bloomington Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe said he has a big vision for the annual Juneteenth celebration at Miller Park, emphasizing that marking the end of slavery is important for the entire community.
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Juneteenth has been celebrated in Bloomington off and on for 30 years. Last year's move to Miller Park came with a boost of city support. The 2023 Juneteenth promises to be bigger than ever, with V.I.P. the Little Mermaid making an appearance.