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Videos
The Bronzeville Trail Task Force plans to push for world-renowned Black cyclist Marshall “Major” Taylor to be honored with a postage stamp and a Congressional Medal of Honor, it recently announced. The group is also already raising money for a Major Taylor monument to be placed at the entrance of his namesake trail on the South Side.