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The Bloomington-Normal Branch of the NAACP will hold its annual Freedom Fund Banquet at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Normal.
Saturday marked a long-standing tradition dating back to the early 1990s in which Bloomington's African American and Black communities gather to celebrate the nation's "second independence day."