Beverly Peter News Today

ART met science at a celebration of the 150th birthday of a illustrator known for his unlikely inventions and contraptions.

Why whitewash history? Talk of Tulsa, Juneteenth and Critical Race Theory made me realize my schooling was incomplete. There are still chances to learn, like a new exhibit at the Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum, “Something so Horrible: The Springfield Race Riot of 1908,” when a mob of 5,000 Whites over two days destroyed Black homes and businesses, and attacked Blacks; 16 died. The 1921 Tulsa Massacre – a White mob of about 1,000 killed 300 Blacks and woun...