As I write my last column for 2019, I am grateful to Clare Howard and the entire team at COMMUNITY WORD for the opportunity to sound off on issues of importance to me and I hope from time to time…
Columns
Straight Talk | What’s going on with media?
by Roger Monroe • • Comments Off on Straight Talk | What’s going on with media?
On Thursday, Nov. 7, 23-year-old Tyshan Gayton exchanged gunfire with law enforcement officials not far from the Glen Oak Learning Center and then fled to a house on Briarwood. Police rushed to the area of 2300 North Knoxville followed by…
Bill Knight | Health-care costs
by Bill Knight • • Comments Off on Bill Knight | Health-care costs
Decades ago, I edited a weekly newspaper owned by a record chain whose owner was mulling over providing health-insurance coverage to full-time workers when in a matter of weeks I had to go to emergency rooms. I’d seriously injured my…
Nature Rambles | Chinquapin Oak
by Mike Miller • • Comments Off on Nature Rambles | Chinquapin Oak
As the leaves fall and the forest takes on a slumbering personality, we often don’t think much about the trees until they start leafing out again in the spring. However, winter is a great time to take a new look…
Reflections From A Baha’i | Universal human rights attainable
by Community Word Staff • • Comments Off on Reflections From A Baha’i | Universal human rights attainable
One of the great achievements of the twentieth century was the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the U.N. General Assembly on Dec. 10, 1948. The Universal Declaration affirms in its preamble that it is intended to…
The Watch | PHA meetings
by Terry Bibo • • Comments Off on The Watch | PHA meetings
Several months ago, attorney John T. Brady read the local government observer reports in his League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria monthly newsletter. It reported PHA meetings had been moved or cancelled, often without notice. Agendas and basic information…
The Lion’s Den | Part I: African American Education: During Slavery
by Daniel McCloud • • Comments Off on The Lion’s Den | Part I: African American Education: During Slavery
This article is the first in a series that exams the African American experience with America’s education system. Part one will examine the education of Blacks during the times of slavery. Education for African Americans during slavery was mainly illegal.…
Inland Art | Imagism
by Paul Krainak • • Comments Off on Inland Art | Imagism
The catalog essays that support the exhibition “What Came After: Figurative Painting in Chicago 1978 – 1998” at the Elmhurst Art Museum, question whether the term “Imagism” is fitting for art predominately recognized as Chicago-born. They also question whether Imagism…
Arts Beat | December 2019
by Community Word Staff • • Comments Off on Arts Beat | December 2019
Dec. 6: “A Merry Little Christmas,” featuring the Peoria Pops Orchestra. 7 p.m. Five Points Washington. 444-8222. Dec. 6: Dexter O’Neal + Funk Yard 5:30 p.m. “Live at the Five Spot,” Contemporary Arts Center, 674-6822. Dec. 7: Bradley Chorale, Women’s…
Real Talk | When the smoke clears: The legalization of marijuana in Illinois
by Kamara Taylor • • Comments Off on Real Talk | When the smoke clears: The legalization of marijuana in Illinois
Implicit biases that still exist with marijuana stem from “refer madness” from the early 1950s. Those biases were geared toward individuals living in poverty and the escape provided by marijuana. The mythology of marijuana is that it causes aggression; it…