"Something special in a small package"

It is a night for basketball, Midwestern style: outside, January wind chill; inside, parquet floor, screaming fans, close air, even closer games. Illinois beats Wisconsin at the buzzer. Michael Jordan pours in 53 at the Stadium. And, in the St. Luke Invitational, Terry Isaac grabs a rebound.

Who?

- Wednesday Journal, Oak Park, Illinois, January 14, 1987

"Review: 'Trouble in Mind'"

The year is 1957. The halcyon days of the '50s are in full flower. Life is good, and getting better--on this everyone can agree.

Almost everyone, that is. Blacks are still called "coloreds"--or worse. Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation they have yet to achieve any real measure of the rights it guaranteed them. But a change is gonna come--not without tragedy, violence, and death, yes, but it will come.

- Wednesday Journal, Oak Park, Illinois, June 6, 1988

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