Civil Rights

SIU-Carbondale Chancellor Austin Lane says the University is creating a campus wide retention plan.

September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

The march culminated in Dr. Martin Luther King’s I HAVE A DREAM speech.

A reported beating at Pinckneyville Correctional Center is at the heart of the case

The City of Anna has been approached with a request to hold a peaceful demonstration on Thursday.On his Facebook page, Chief of Police Bryan Watkins…

WSIU's Jennifer Fuller talks with the SIU Board of Trustees' 2019 Diversity Lecturer, Charles Neblett.

Few people like going to the doctor. But for some, that fear is compounded by discrimination and history. For black Americans, the pervasive history of…

On Friday, Bernice King spoke to a group in Springfield representing the Abraham Lincoln Association - which regularly honors the president's birthday...

December first marks the 60th anniversary of the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Her action…