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10 honored at Black Heritage Awards

Ten members of the ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø community were honored during the 18th Annual Black Heritage Awards ceremony on Feb. 28 at the Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (CCICS).

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An Inspiration to Give Back

In 1965, Marge Csakai and Jim Blair took a Creative Writing class at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø. The teacher was none other than Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks, who three years later also was appointed poet laureate of Illinois, but that exciting fact is a mere footnote in their family story.

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Teaching Language Through Hip-Hop

Tony Pozdol didn’t exactly launch his college career as standout scholar.