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.

PAST EVENTS

(includes cancelled events)

Aug. 30: Day-long Symposium

Flier for the 400 year symposium event

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

Sept. 11: Film Screening - Gina's Journey

The cover of the Gina's Journey film

Sept. 19: A Talk with Nadine Burke Harris

nadine burke harris headshot

Oct. 7: Liam Martin - The Recovery Hustle

Liam Martin Head Shot

Oct. 11: Ian Haney Lopez - Merge Left

Merge Left Preview image

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

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

Sept. 21: Black Life - Michelle M. Wright

Michelle Wright head shot

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

Nona Faustine Head Shot

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

Tongo-Eisen-Martin

Oct. 16: Paul Butler - Prison Abolition

Paul Butler's Book Image

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

Judith Carney photo ship

Nov. 12: Waldo Martin - DEEP SOUL

Waldo Martin head shot

Nov. 24: Black Life - Diamano Coura Class

Diamano Coura Dance

Feb. 5: Capitalism and Freedom

Flier for the Feb. 5: Capitalism and Freedom event

Feb. 21: Deirdre Cooper Owens - Slavery, Race, & American Gynecology

Deirdre Cooper Owens headshot

Mar. 4: Gary Younge - Why America Wants Gun Control But Doesn’t Have It

Gary Younge

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

Alvin Ailey

[POSTPONED] Apr. 20: Kahlil Joseph on BLKNWS

Kahlil Joseph

[CANCELLED] May 2-3: Performance - Joplin's Treemonisha

Scott Joplin's Treemonisha image

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

Ruha Benjamin's head shot

Oct. 26: Black Life - Films by Ephraim Asili

American Hunger

Nov. 13: Marisa J. Fuentes

Marisa Fuentes head shot

Dec. 11: Film Screening - The Long Shadow

Cover image of The Long Shadow

Feb. 18: Rodney Leon on Black Public Art

Rodney Leon

Feb. 22: Gia White, Black History Mountain View Cemetery Tour

Gia White

Mar. 6: Elise C. Boddie - Struggling for the Soul of Public Education

Elise Boddie's head shot

Apr. 14: The Speculative Design of John Jennings

Crossroads and Cyborgs: The Speculative Design of John Jennings

[CANCELLED] Apr. 22: Terence Keel - Christianity, Race, Slavery

Terence Keel

May 1: Conversations with Nancy Krieger on: Structural Racism, Social Justice, and COVID-19

Nancy Krieger Book Image

Oct. 21: Nikki Jones - Color-Blind Cops

Nikki Jones Head Shot

Nov. 8: Afropop Spectacular

Afropop

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

Riggs film still

Feb. 1: interGeneration400

interGeneration400

Feb. 20: We Shall Overcome

We Shall Overcome

Feb. 24: Khiara Bridges - Imagining an Ethnography

Khiara M. Bridges' head shot

CANCELLED: Mar. 13: Jenifer Barclay - We Saw in Him Each of Us

Jenifer Barclay

[CANCELLED] Apr. 24: C. Riley Snorton - Nonbinary Archives & the Grammar of Experience

C. Riley Snorton

May 16: Black Life: Mandy Harris Williams

Mandy Harris Williams

Nov. 18: Reparations after 400 years

Future of freedom flier cover