Chicago Tonight: Black Voices, June 20, 2021 - Full Show

WTTW News | June 20, 2021, 5:30 pm

We celebrate Juneteenth by tracing history through a cemetery of prominent Chicagoans, remembering one of the first Black women to receive her Ph.D. and sitting down with an award-winning chef.

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