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“It’s critical that this should be known in our schools. It should be a part of the school curriculum,” said Reginald Petty, whose grandfather told him stories about the massacre.
One of the country’s most violent race riots — white mobs lynching, shooting and burning Black men, women and children — will now be remembered with a commemorative marker near SIUE’s East St. Louis campus.
Premium Content Subscriber only Wallis Randell’s journey from a cane farm in Carmila to the AFLW will add its next – and greatest – chapter when she makes her Gold Coast Suns debut against West Coast on Sunday. Randell, 19, has been named to play for the first time since she was taken with Pick No. 61 in the 2020 AFLW Draft, and will become the third Mackay product after Lauren Bella and Emma Pittman to play for the Suns. Like many in the AFLW, Randell’s sporting background is not founded in Aussie rules. Before she was lacing up for Magpies in the AFL Mackay competition, Randell was ...