Full Text of HR1468 094th General Assembly
HR1468 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois are pleased to recognize the 20th anniversary | 4 |
| of the Eugene B. Redmond (EBR) Writers Club; and
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| WHEREAS, Named in honor of Eugene B. Redmond, | 6 |
| world-renowned poet, editor, publisher, essayist, tenured | 7 |
| professor, and Poet Laureate of East St. Louis, the writers | 8 |
| club was formed in East St. Louis in March of 1986 at State | 9 |
| Community College and was chartered on November 21, 1986, by | 10 |
| Sherman L. Fowler, Mr. Redmond, and Darlene Roy, President; and
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| WHEREAS, The EBR Writers Club has benefitted from the sage | 12 |
| advice, guidance, and support of outstanding Board of Trustee | 13 |
| members, including Margaret Walker Alexander, Maya Angelou, | 14 |
| Amiri Baraka, Avery Brooks, Gwendolyn Brooks, Walter Mosley, | 15 |
| Raymond Patterson, Barbara A. Teer, Quincy Troupe, and Dr. Lena | 16 |
| Weathers; and
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| WHEREAS, The EBR Writers Club has co-published "Drumvoices | 18 |
| Revue", "a confluence of literary, cultural, and vision arts", | 19 |
| for 15 years and "Break Word with the World" for 11 years with | 20 |
| Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville (SIUE), and its | 21 |
| members have been widely published in literary anthologies and | 22 |
| journals throughout the United States; and
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| WHEREAS, The EBR Writers Club has held writers and thinkers | 24 |
| conferences, poetry readings, writers workshops, and hosted a | 25 |
| 5-year, multi-cultural reading series with SIUE in addition to | 26 |
| its free annual Black History, Fresh & Ancestral, Break Word | 27 |
| with the World, East St. Louis Project, and Pre-Kwanzaa | 28 |
| Celebration programs; and
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| WHEREAS, The EBR Writers Club members have performed at | 30 |
| poetry readings and book parties, participated on panels, |
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| attended writers conferences in the East St. Louis/St. Louis | 2 |
| area, and in Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago; Indianapolis, Indiana; | 3 |
| Jefferson City, Missouri; New Brunswick, New Jersey; New York, | 4 |
| New York; Sacramento and San Francisco, California; Kingston, | 5 |
| Jamaica; Paris, France; and Ibadan and Lagos, Nigeria; and
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| WHEREAS, The EBR Writers Club members' considerable | 7 |
| talents were used to aide various community causes, including | 8 |
| writing and producing television ads for the East St. Louis | 9 |
| Board of Elections on purging voter rolls and proper use of new | 10 |
| voting machines; raising funds for the Katherine Dunham Centers | 11 |
| in 1986 and for flood victims in 1987; and writing poetry for | 12 |
| inclusion in two "Women's Lives Daily Planners" published by | 13 |
| the St. Louis Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Foundation | 14 |
| with assistance from the St. Louis University School of Public | 15 |
| Health, Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation, and Jackie | 16 |
| Joyner-Kersee Boys and Girls Club; and
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| WHEREAS, The EBR Writers Club has further served the area | 18 |
| by judging annual poetry contests and selecting poetry from the | 19 |
| public domain to be placed on MetroLink cars and buses in | 20 |
| conjunction with Metro (formerly Bi-State Transit), Washington | 21 |
| University's Writers Center, and River Styx Association; and | 22 |
| conducting poetry readings, Kwanzaa programs, and Black | 23 |
| history, culture, and literature workshops at schools, | 24 |
| churches, anniversaries, festivals, and testimonials in the | 25 |
| Metro East St. Louis/St. Louis area; and
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| WHEREAS, The EBR Writers Club has generated positive | 27 |
| attention for the East St. Louis community through numerous | 28 |
| radio interviews, television appearances, and newspaper | 29 |
| articles published across the United States, Europe, and | 30 |
| Africa; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 32 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we recognize the 20th anniversary of the Eugene B. Redmond | 2 |
| Writers Club, and we thank the members for their many | 3 |
| contributions to the East St. Louis community; and be it | 4 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 |
| presented to the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club as an | 7 |
| expression of our esteem.
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