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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: Homeschoolers Summit!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>In this special episode of Spotlight, <strong>Pastor Ceasar LeFlore</strong> sits down with <strong>Latasha Fields</strong> to discuss education and the exciting upcoming event, <a href="https://illinoisfamily.org/event/chicago-home-educators-summit-2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Home Educators&#8217; Summit.</a></p>
<p>Latasha Fields has been a home educator for over 18 years and her passion for parental rights and quality education is evident. She is a former candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, is a critic of the public school system, and has even <a href="https://youtu.be/2iV4k8d5nnA?si=3hHw4qGGZd-np8OY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before the U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/03/spotlight-homeschoolers-summit/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: Education is Possible</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>In this special episode of Illinois Family Spotlight, Pastor <strong>Ceasar LeFlore</strong> sits down with <strong>Latasha Fields</strong> to discuss education, parental rights, and community empowerment.</p>
<p>Latasha Fields has been a home educator for over 18 years and her passion for parental rights and quality education is evident. She is a former candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, is a critic of the public school system, and has even <a href="https://youtu.be/2iV4k8d5nnA?si=3hHw4qGGZd-np8OY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before the U.S. Congress on &#8220;Poverty in America: Economic Realities of Struggling Families.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/01/spotlight-education-is-possible/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Illinois Republicans Desperately Need the Black Conservative Summit</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/02/illinois-republicans-desperately-need-the-black-conservative-summit/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Rev. Ceasar I. LeFlore III</em></p>
<p>One of the most important events for Illinois Republicans in this current political environment is the <strong><a href="https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/bcs-2023-welcome" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Conservative Summit</a>, </strong>which will take place in Tinley Park on March 24-25, 2023.</p>
<p>The Black Conservative Summit will feature conservative leaders like <strong>Larry Elder</strong>, <strong>Voddie Baucham</strong>, <strong>Lt. Colonel Allen West</strong>, and many Illinois conservative leaders like <strong>Stephanie Trussell</strong>. This event is an essential tool Republicans need to break through to black voters entrenched in liberal politics and begin peeling away enough of their votes in places like Cook County, which almost always ensures democrat victories in important elections.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/02/illinois-republicans-desperately-need-the-black-conservative-summit/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: Black Families Matter (Part 2)</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/08/black-families-matter-part-2/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>This week&#8217;s IFA Spotlight podcast revisits the recent <a href="https://blackfamiliesmatter.org/"><strong>Black Families Matter</strong></a> rally that was held in south suburban Flossmoor, right next door to the Planned Parenthood abortion center. <strong>Latasha Fields</strong> delivers a passionate, well-reasoned, and biblically based call for Christian parents to stop advocating for public education and instead take personal responsibility for their children’s instruction. She also addresses the destructive agenda and influence of groups such as Black Lives Matter at School and the New York Times 1619 Project’s K-12 Black History Curriculum in government schools – and their intent to undermine and dismantle the Black nuclear family.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/08/black-families-matter-part-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;Black Families Matter, Part 2&#8221; (Illinois Family Spotlight #212)</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/illinois-family-spotlight-212/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2020 05:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Spotlight revisits the recent <a href="https://blackfamiliesmatter.org/"><strong>Black Families Matter</strong></a> rally that was held in south suburban Flossmoor, right next door to the Planned Parenthood abortion center. <strong>Latasha Fields</strong> delivers a passionate, well-reasoned, and biblically based call for Christian parents to stop advocating for public education and instead take personal responsibility for their children’s instruction. She also addresses the destructive agenda and influence of groups such as Black Lives Matter at School and the New York Times 1619 Project’s K-12 Black History Curriculum in government schools – and their intent to undermine and dismantle the Black nuclear family.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/illinois-family-spotlight-212/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ignorance of the Bible and Our History is Plaguing Us (Illinois Family Spotlight #203)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The BLM riots continue: the attention of the raging rioters has shifted to attacking the statues of historical Americans. Both the alleged reason and the downright historical ignorance of these rioters are addressed in this episode of Spotlight. Latasha Fields, the leader of the Christian Home Educators Support System, speaks about the disproportionate impact of demonstrably bad democratic policies in communities with higher pigmentation, and why the church generally must step up and help that part of Christ&#8217;s Body which is suffering.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/spotlight-203/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: Parental Rights, Religious Liberty and American History</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/02/spotlight-parental-rights-religious-liberty-and-american-history/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Benjamin Smith</em></p>
<p><strong>Latasha Fields</strong>, founder and director of CHESS – <a href="https://www.homeschool-life.com/il/chessup/">Christian Home Educators Support System</a>, joins IFI executive director David Smith on this edition of Spotlight. In the first half of the podcast, David and Latasha discuss egregious legislation pending in the Illinois General Assembly that aims to eviscerate parental rights and eliminate religious liberty.</p>
<p>State Representative <strong>Robyn Gabel </strong>(D-Evanston) recently introduced <a href="http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=4870&#38;GAID=15&#38;GA=101&#38;DocTypeID=HB&#38;LegID=124934&#38;SessionID=108" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HB 4870</a> would mandate the HPV vaccination for <strong>ALL</strong> Illinois students at the 6<sup>th</sup> grade level.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/02/spotlight-parental-rights-religious-liberty-and-american-history/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;Parental Rights, Religious Liberty and American History&#8221; (Illinois Family Spotlight #187)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Latasha Fields</strong>, founder and director of CHESS – <a href="https://www.homeschool-life.com/il/chessup/">Christian Home Educators Support System</a>, joins IFI executive director David Smith on this edition of Spotlight. In the first half of the podcast, David and Latasha discuss egregious legislation pending in the Illinois General Assembly that aims to eviscerate parental rights and eliminate religious liberty.</p>
<p>State Representative <strong>Robyn Gabel </strong>(D-Evanston) recently introduced <a href="http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=4870&#38;GAID=15&#38;GA=101&#38;DocTypeID=HB&#38;LegID=124934&#38;SessionID=108" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HB 4870</a> would mandate the HPV vaccination for <strong>ALL</strong> Illinois students at the 6<sup>th</sup> grade level.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/illinois-family-spotlight-187/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: Not Living Perpetually on Government Entitlements</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/08/spotlight-not-living-perpetually-on-government-entitlements/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2019 09:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Produced by Benjamin Smith</em></p>
<p>This edition of Spotlight features Monte Larrick’s interview with <strong>Latasha Fields</strong> at the recent <a href="https://www.urbancure.org/">CURE</a> Chicago Summit for Solutions II. Mrs. Fields shares her testimony – rising above the poverty of her childhood in Baton Rouge, LA, taking personal responsibility for her choices, embracing hard work, pursuing education, and ultimately, placing her faith in Jesus – a testimony she also shared in June with the U.S. House Budget Committee.</p>
<p>Larrick and Fields discuss the Democratic Party’s decades-old tactics that continue to perpetuate poverty and dependence in black communities, the importance of voter education at the local level, and the value of individual moral responsibility.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/08/spotlight-not-living-perpetually-on-government-entitlements/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;They say: Take the Kids Out, But Where Are We Going to Put Them?&#8221; (Illinois Family Spotlight #158)</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/they-say-take-the-kids-out-but-where-are-we-going-to-put-them-illinois-family-spotlight-158/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Monte Larrick had the opportunity to interview Latasha Fields at this year&#8217;s CURE summit. They discussed Field&#8217;s story, the education problem in minority communities, school vouchers, moral responsibility, the way to rise above poverty, the rising prevalence of influential black conservatives, and more education related topics.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/they-say-take-the-kids-out-but-where-are-we-going-to-put-them-illinois-family-spotlight-158/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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