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Facebook The Crossroads Project at Illinois State University, which is devoted to promoting diversity and inclusion, will do a staged reading of “The DePriest Incident” next month. “The De Priest Incident” is about Oscar De Priest, the first Black person elected to Congress from Illinois in the 20th century. Crossroads Project chairman Kee-Yoon Nahm said the characters and message of 1929 have uncanny parallels to this past year’s national dialogue. “When we were thinking about the play, we definitely had race on our mind, but at that time we weren’t really thinking much about the backlash we’ve seen towards election results. I think there are a lot of connections that we can make to the kind of resistance we are seeing right now towards more progressive politics. It is also just a fascinating chapter of African American culture that deserves more attention,” said Nahm. ....