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In May 2023, Mwilambwe was named by Governor J. B. Pritzker to serve on the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board. [14] Mwilambwe announced in April 2024 he is running for re-election. [15] He is being challenged by former Illinois State Representative Dan Brady. [16] and current-serving city counsel Alderman Cody Hendricks
African Americans have significantly contributed to the history, culture, and development of Illinois since the early 18th century. The African American presence dates back to the French colonial era where the French brought black slaves to the U.S. state of Illinois early in its history, [3] and spans periods of slavery, migration, civil rights movement, and more.
In February 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring the White Afrikaaner population oppressed people - in response to the 2024 Expropriation Act passed in South Africa, which allows confiscation of Afrikaner lands to redistribute to the black population. Trump declared that the US will be accepting Afrikaners as refugees. [18]
African-American state legislators in Illinois ... This page was last edited on 12 January 2024, ... African-American people in Illinois politics.
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The African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission in a commission created to determine whether or not the State of Illinois should award reparations to black people. [1] The commission can have up to 18 members, by law at least 3 members must be representatives of organizations that support reparations and at least 8 of the members must be ...
Here's a breakdown of the Illinois 2024-25 schedule by month, including a prediction of some of what are likely to be the season's key points. November. Nov. 4: Eastern Illinois. Nov. 8: SIU ...
(Also first African-American woman elected to the United States Senate, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first female Senator from Illinois). 1994; First African-American woman elected to the Nevada Legislature: Bernice Mathews