Barbara Fields News Today

Bloomington-Normals universities and colleges are honoring Black History Month with events to bring students and community members out to celebrate the history and achievements of Black Americans, past and present.

Learn about race as a hostile identification imposed by others and its impact on racial identity from expert Dr. Barbara Fields at ISUs Black History Month event.

PHILLIPS — The Phillips Area Community Center (PACC) was the place to be Saturday, October 28. The 5th Annual Pumpkins on Parade event, organized by Sheila Jalbert, along with the Pie and Bake Sale, overseen by Winona Davenport and Barbara Fields, was a showcase of both Jack-o’-lantern carving expertise by artists of all ages and […]

PHILLIPS - The Phillips Conservation Commission's Annual Scarecrow Reunion, held during the latter weeks of October, gathered on Upper Main Street in Phillips for the 31st time this year (with one year skipped because of COVID-19.) Julie Hardy, of the Conservation Commission, shared, "There does seem to be a renewed interest in the reunion and

The group is urging Superintendent Mary Skipper to release the findings of an investigation into whether administrators of color have been targeted with wrongful disciplinary proceedings and termination.

He is very selective when it comes to race and racism.

Up for grabs this week is entry to a Prisoner fan event with 5 former cast members.

The focus on housing assistance as compensation for decades of redlining is a promising one.

<p>Political scientist Cedric Johnson argues in a new book that protest movements have fixated on racial identity at the expense of making a broad critique of how policing defends an unequal and exploitative society and building a bigger coalition for change. Writer Jay Caspian Kang puts this argument in the context of debates about identity politics from the center to the left.</p>

A new book makes the case for a more pragmatic anti-policing movement—one that seeks to build working-class solidarity across racial lines.