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The 21st Show

Univ. of Illinois Football has eight Black coaches, the most of any top level school. Today on The 21st, a sportswriter who says the diversity and inclusion on the team can be a model for the sport.

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In a landmark case by the U.S. Supreme Court, it has been ruled that the civil rights law protects gay, lesbian and transgender employees from discrimination based on sex. We talked with a legal expert about what that means for Illinois workers.

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Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton joins The 21st to talk about calls to “defund the police,” the power of police unions and the status of investments in Black and HIspanic communities that are meant to flow from the legalization of Cannabis.

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Today on The 21st, should everyone get tested for the coronavirus? And we try to answer what "Antifa" is then we look at what are the bugs of summer.

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Two insects may make your summer more miserable. Today, we talked with two entomologists about the emergence of cicadas and the Asian Tiger mosquitoes in Illinois this year.

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There’s been a lot of talk lately about “Antifa,” short for “anti-fascist.” And in the wake of the Trump administration’s threat to designate it as a terrorist organization, false rumors of Antifa-led violence have taken hold right here in Illinois. We took a closer look at what Antifa is, and what it isn’t.

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Now that COVID-19 testing is widely available in Illinois, anyone can go. To help us understand what COVID-19 test results tell us, we talked with the program director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at SIU Medicine in Springfield. 

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Today on the 21st, we check in with reporters around the state for the latest on COVID-19 and protests over police violence from across the state, we have a conversation about pride and rebellion and we see what a year without corn dogs and state fairs looks like.

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Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor J.B. Pritzker and other state leaders have cancelled the 2020 Illinois and Du Quoin State Fairs. The 21st talked with a concession owner whose corn dogs have been a staple at state fairs for decades.

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This month is Pride month but for a long time, a key force behind gay liberation has been written out of history. Today we remember the role Black transgender people played in the modern gay rights movement.