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THE BUD BILLIKEN SPIRIT: 91 YEARS AND COUNTING!
By Robyn Mitchell-Henry. Twenty-twenty has certainly delivered plenty of new experiences and most of them have caused us to grow and stretch and bend to extract the lessons presented. Learning to accept the changes and [...]
Emmett Till’s Death: Sixty-Five Years Later
Written by Mary L. Datcher IG @mdatcher On a hot and muggy night on August 28, 1955, Roy Bryant and his brother J.W. Milam decided to kidnap and mercilessly murdered a Black teenage boy in [...]
Abbott and Sengstacke Family Members Visit the Church Co-Founded by Flora Abbott Sengstacke
By Marc A. Sengstacke, Ph.D. Executive Director Chicago Defender Charities, Inc. This story is about my journey through the history of my family, a journey preceded by events that formed the foundation of this incredible [...]
