Chicago Tonight: Black Voices, Jan. 31, 2021 - Full Show

WTTW News | January 31, 2021, 5:30 pm

The presidents of the National Urban League and the Chicago Urban League on racial equity. We travel the “U.S. Civil Rights Trail” in our book club. Remembering Bessie Coleman, the original fly girl.

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