Timeline: 1989
Champaign and Vermillion County Herald, a periodical published by Phillip Maurice Rowell, Sr., sought to put local African Americans in a positive light. Mr. Rowell produced a number of periodicals and independent documentaries on African American life in Champaign-Urbana including: the weeklies East Central Illinois Voice, Champaign County Voice and Voice of the Black Community from the late 1980s–1990; and the monthly Black Thought from 1997–2003.
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