Illinois News Roundup - March 1, 2024
Friday Reporter Roundtable on Macomb-Galesburg and Bloomington-Normal.
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Friday Reporter Roundtable on Macomb-Galesburg and Bloomington-Normal.
The latest re-entry guide from the Education Justice Project includes information on how to get involved in community organizations after incarceration and other resources for LGBTQ+ people.
Rep. Carol Ammons (D-Urbana) proposed a House Resolution urging support for the Family Roots Genealogy Program pilot, which aims to reconnect African Americans to their ancestral roots. The program is in partnership with the Department of Anthropology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.