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Reporter Exposes Lack of Human Rights Within CMUs
Forty-five-minute phone calls monthly for each prisoner. Letters being limited to only six pieces of paper. Family and friend visits limited to only four hours per month. Prisoners can’t even hug their family members due to the non-contact rule. Those in the crowd may have been shocked hear such things. Will Potter was not.… Continue reading Reporter Exposes Lack of Human Rights Within CMUs
Fraternity Member Discusses Leadership for Chicago’s Black Youth
Pushing through his adversities and the negative stigmas surrounding Chicago, Alexander Perkins pushes for leadership within Chicago’s black youth. Perkins focused his time on football throughout high school. His talents and determination led him to receive a scholarship at Milikin University. He juggles playing football, his work study job, and his fraternity events at the… Continue reading Fraternity Member Discusses Leadership for Chicago’s Black Youth
College students discuss freedom from parents
Rianna Smith, a freshman student at the University of Illinois, was ecstatic to get out of the shackles her parents put on her. “It was like my parents were always too strict on me. They always made me feel like I was an outsider in my own house.” College students with strict parents tend to… Continue reading College students discuss freedom from parents