- Rock Island community leaders at sea during Black History month after city returns federal Black history grant
- Rock Island approves police/community-relations commission
- Local African-American female entrepreneurs stuck for capital opportunitiesHarvard Business Review: Black women more likely to start businesses than white men
- Black business-owners report support from QC community
- Rock Island Coalition of African American Stakeholders calls for federal grant return due to lack of Black community inputText of Coalition statement
- Fully Free Campaign to inaugurate QC chapter 09/28New QC group wants to remove barriers faced by previously incarcerated
- Rock Island council approves ordinance toward police/community-relations commission