(Photo By Flickr User Marcus Balcher) Who will be crowned “IHSA Queens Of The Court?” The Road To Redbird, Part One begins on this weekend in Normal. IL; let the February Fever begin! Here is a quick glance to see who will be matching basketball wits at Redbird Arena: Class 1A Semifinals: Friday,…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Cliff) Black History Today for February 25th: 1839- Seminoles and their Black allies shipped from Tampa Bay, FL to the West. 1870- Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi sworn in as first Black U.S. senator and first Black representative in Congress. 1948- Martin Luther King, Jr. ordained as a Baptist minister 1964- The singer…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Stanley Whyte) Sending a friendly reminder to come join in as The Home Builders Association of Greater Peoria, present the 2016 Official Spring Home Show at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, IL! More than 250 companies occupying 450 booth spaces make the show the largest of its kind in…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Elvert Barnes) Black History Today for February 24th: 1811- Bishop of the AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Church Daniel Payne, was born on this day. 1864- Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College. She worked from 1852-1860 as…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Brett Neilson) Early voting is in full swing in Peoria County! 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, IL. Voters do not…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Karen) Black History Today for February 23rd: 1868- On this day Dr. William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) DuBois, educator and civil rights advocate, is born in Great Barrington, MA. 1895- William H. Heard, AME minister and educator, named minister to Liberia. 1915- The death of Robert Smalls (75), Reconstruction congressman, in Beaufort, SC.…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Jenni Konrad) Black History Today for February 22nd: 1841- Grafton Tyler Brown, lithographer and painter, born on this day. 1888- African-American painter Horace Pippin, was born in West Chester, PA. Pippin is considered one of the major American painters of his period. 1898- Black postmaster lynched and his wife and three…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Army Medicine) Black History Weekend Today for February 20th: 1869- Tennessee Governor W.C. Brownlow, declared martial law in nine countries in Ku Klux Klan crisis. 1895- Death of Frederick Douglass (78), Anacostia Heights, District of Columbia. Douglass was the leading Black spokesman for almost fifty years. He was a major abolitionist and…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User Canadian Film Centre) Black History Today for February 19th: 1864- Knights of Pythias established. Confederate troops defeated three Black and six white regiments at Battle of Olustee, about fifty miles from Jacksonville, FL. 1919- Pan-African Congress meeting, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois, met at Grand Hotel, Paris. There were fifty-seven delegates sixteen…… MORE
(Photo By Flickr User mjtmall) Black History Today for February 18th: 1688- First formal protest against slavery by organized white body in English America made by Germantown (Pa.) Quakers at monthly meeting. The historic “Germantown Protest” denounced slavery and the slave trade. 1865- Rebels abandoned Charleston, SC. First Union troops to enter the city included Twenty-first…… MORE
