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Carlos Glenn, president of the Nu Gamma Sigma Alumni Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. , explains his fraternity’s plans to clean Booker T. Washington Cemetery in Millstadt. Between 1919 and the early 1970s, more than 12,000 Black people mainly from the East St. Louis, Alorton and Centreville areas were buried in the cemetery.
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The winding, narrow road to Booker T. Washington Cemetery off Illinois 136 near Centreville is ominous. It’s inundated with potholes and doesn’t give any sign of where it leads. It is mysterious.
Kick-off to 2021 farmers market season highlights weekend calendar in metro-east
Belleville News-Democrat 5/5/2021 Jennifer Green, Belleville News-Democrat
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Farmers Markets Monroe County Farmers Market Columbia 3-6 p.m. Thursday, May 6. Schnucks parking lot, 100 Columbia Center Drive, Columbia. facebook.com/monroecountyfarmersmarket
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Gavin Becherer and Connor Braasch watch a 5 axis CNC machine carry out their commands as the build a part. The Southwestern Illinois College team are finalists in the Project MFGTM national competition. The event is a skilled trades competition for a chance to win prizes, scholarships and title of national champion.
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The new manufacturing academy at Southwestern Illinois College is expected to bring more manufacturers to the Metro East, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a press conference Friday.
According to the FBI, a former GA sheriff’s deputy bragged in text messages with members of an alleged extremist group that he planned to charge Black Georgians with felonies to keep them from voting. He also bragged to the group that he beat a Black man who was in custody, but the incident apparently never happened. Via the Belleville News-Democrat:
The ex-Wilkinson County deputy, Cody Richard Griggers, of Montrose, was fired last November after the FBI contacted the sheriff there about an investigation into illegal guns and their alleged ties to a California man said to have made violent political statements on Facebook.