Events

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Background image: National guardsmen and black men and boys are gathered outside a cafe in Chicago during the 1919 Red Summer

Image credit:

National guardsmen speak with black residents outside Chicago cafe in 1919. Photo by Jun Fujita. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Sept. 19 - Nov. 25: Marlon Riggs Film Series

Riggs film still

Oct. 26: Black Life - Films by Ephraim Asili

American Hunger

Nov. 24: Black Life - Diamano Coura Class

Diamano Coura Dance

Oct. 21: Nikki Jones - Color-Blind Cops

Nikki Jones Head Shot

Nov. 8: Afropop Spectacular

Afropop

Feb. 20: We Shall Overcome

We Shall Overcome

Oct. 23: Judith Carney - Africa’s Food Legacy

Judith Carney photo ship

Nov. 12: Waldo Martin - DEEP SOUL

Waldo Martin head shot

Feb. 21: Deirdre Cooper Owens

Feb. 24: Khiara Bridges

Khiara M. Bridges' head shot

Mar. 31 - Apr. 5: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

May 2-3: Performance - Joplin's Treemonisha

Scott Joplin's Treemonisha image

PAST EVENTS

Mar. 6: Elise C. Boddie

Elise Boddie's head shot

Apr. 24: C. Riley Snorton

Postponed: Film Screening - The Long Shadow

Cover image of The Long Shadow

Mar. 13: Jenifer Barclay

May 1: Nancy Krieger

Nancy Krieger Book Image

Postponed: Black/Girlhood Imaginary

Black Girl Imaginary photo

Aug. 30: Day-long Symposium

Flier for the 400 year symposium event

Sept. 11: Film Screening - Gina's Journey

The cover of the Gina's Journey film

Sept. 12: Ibram X. Kendi - How to be an Anti-Racist

Cover of Ibram X Kendi's book "How to be an anti-racist

Sept. 12: Fearing the Black Body

FEARING THE BLACK BODY book image

Sept. 26: Monica White - Freedom Farmers

Cover the book "Freedom Farmers" shows children in a community garden

Oct. 10: Film Screening - Barber of Birmingham

Barber of Birmingham photo

Oct. 16: Paul Butler - Prison Abolition

Paul Butler's Book Image

Sept. 19: A Talk with Nadine Burke Harris

Oct. 7: Liam Martin - The Recovery Hustle

Liam Martin Head Shot

Oct. 11: Ian Haney Lopez - Merge Left

Merge Left Preview image

Oct. 17: Ruha Benjamin - The New Jim Code?

Ruha Benjamin's head shot

Sept. 21: Black Life - Michelle M. Wright

Michelle Wright head shot

Oct. 7: Nona Faustine - I Was Brought Here to Stay

Nona Faustine Head Shot

Oct. 13: Reading - Tongo Eisen-Martin & more

Tongo-Eisen-Martin