(Photo By Flickr User Keith Ivey) Early voting has begun in Peoria County! According to cinewsnow.com, the Peoria County Election Commission in Peoria is just one of the spots you can vote early in the county. It is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm on Adams St. in Peoria,…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 11th
(Photo By Flickr User Thomas Hawk) Black History Today for February 11th: 1644- First Black legal protest in America pressed by eleven Blacks who petitioned for freedom in New Netherlands (New York). Council of New Netherlands freed the eleven petitioners because they had “served the Company seventeen or eighteen years” and had been “long since…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 10th
(Photo By Flickr User B.C. Lorio) Black History Today for February 10th: 1787- Georgia’s House of Assembly named William Few, Abraham Baldwin, William Pierce, Georgie Walton, William Houston, and Nathaniel Pendleton as Georgia’s commissioners to the Philadelphia constitutional convention. 1854- Joseph Charles Price, founder and first president of Livingstone College (Salisbury, NC), was born on…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 9th
(Photo By Flickr User Wally Gobetz) Black History Today for February 9th: 1906- Death of poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar (33), Dayton, OH. 1944- Novelist Alice Walker was born on this day in Eatonton, GA. 1952- Author Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man wins the National Book Award. 1971- Baseball Hall of Fame inducts Leroy “Satchel” Paige.…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 8th
(Photo By Flickr User Walt Jabsco) Black History Today for February 8th: 1894- Congress repeals the Enforcement Act which makes it easier for some states to disenfranchise African American voters. 1925- Marcus Garvey entered federal prison in Atlanta, GA. Students staged strike at Fisk University (Nashville, TN) to protest policies of white administration. 1944- Harry S. McAlphin…… MORE
WVEL Black History Weekend Today: February 6th-7th
(Photo By Flickr User Beacon) Black History Weekend Today for February 6th & 7th: February 6th- 1820- The first organized emigration back to Africa begins when 86 free African Americans leave New York Harbor aboard the Mayflower of Liberia. They are bound for the British colony of Sierra Leone, which welcomes free African Americans as…… MORE
WVEL Sports Beat: Wayne McClain
(Photo By Flickr User Brett Moore) River City Coaching Legend Wayne McClain, will be inducted into the Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame on second Saturday in April. A 1972 graduate of Peoria Manual High School and 1977 Bradley University graduate, McClain enjoyed a nationally-recognized basketball coaching career at both the prep and collegiate levels.…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 5th
(Photo By Flickr User Dennis Amith) Black History Today for February 5th: 1866- Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to Freedmen’s Bureau bill authorizing the distribution of public land and confiscated land to freedmen and loyal refugees in forty acre lots. The measure was defeated in the House by a vote of 126 to 37.…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 4th
(Photo By Flickr User Matt Lemmon) Black History Today For February 4th (Courtesy of blackfacts.com): 1794- France abolishes slavery. The nation will have a lukewarm commitment to abolition and will, under Napoleon, reestablish slavery in 1802 along with the reinstitution of the “Code noir”, prohibiting blacks, mulattoes and other people of color from entering…… MORE
WVEL Black History Today: February 3rd
(Photo By Flickr User Chris Murphy) Black History Today for February 3rd: 1810- Antonio Ruiz, national hero of Buenos Aires, Argentina, died for his country. 1874- Blanche Kelso Bruce elected to a full six-year term in the U.S. Senate by the Mississippi legislature. 1920- The Negro Baseball League founded. 1947- Marlene Nourbese Philip is the winner of the…… MORE
