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"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
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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
Sept. 12: Fearing the Black Body
Sept. 26: Monica White - Freedom Farmers
Oct. 10: Film Screening - Barber of Birmingham
Sept. 11: Film Screening - Gina's Journey
Sept. 19: A Talk with Nadine Burke Harris
Oct. 7: Liam Martin - The Recovery Hustle
Oct. 11: Ian Haney Lopez - Merge Left
Sept. 12: Ibram Kendi - How to be an Anti-Racist
Sept. 21: Black Life - Michelle M. Wright
Oct. 7: N. Faustine - I Was Brought Here to Stay
Oct. 13: Reading - Tongo Eisen-Martin & more
Oct. 16: Paul Butler - Prison Abolition
Oct. 23: Judith Carney - Africa’s Food Legacy
Nov. 12: Waldo Martin - DEEP SOUL
Nov. 24: Black Life - Diamano Coura Class
Feb. 5: Capitalism and Freedom
Feb. 21: Deirdre Cooper Owens - Slavery, Race, & American Gynecology
Mar. 4: Gary Younge - Why America Wants Gun Control But Doesn’t Have It
[CANCELLED] Mar. 31 - Apr. 5: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
[POSTPONED] Apr. 20: Kahlil Joseph on BLKNWS
[CANCELLED] May 2-3: Performance - Joplin's Treemonisha
Oct. 17: Ruha Benjamin - The New Jim Code?
Oct. 26: Black Life - Films by Ephraim Asili
Nov. 13: Marisa J. Fuentes
Dec. 11: Film Screening - The Long Shadow
Feb. 18: Rodney Leon on Black Public Art
Feb. 22: Gia White, Black History Mountain View Cemetery Tour
Mar. 6: Elise C. Boddie - Struggling for the Soul of Public Education
Apr. 14: The Speculative Design of John Jennings
[CANCELLED] Apr. 22: Terence Keel - Christianity, Race, Slavery
May 1: Conversations with Nancy Krieger on: Structural Racism, Social Justice, and COVID-19
Oct. 21: Nikki Jones - Color-Blind Cops
Nov. 8: Afropop Spectacular
Sept. 19 - Nov. 25: Marlon Riggs Film Series
Feb. 1: interGeneration400
Feb. 20: We Shall Overcome
Feb. 24: Khiara Bridges - Imagining an Ethnography
CANCELLED: Mar. 13: Jenifer Barclay - We Saw in Him Each of Us
[CANCELLED] Apr. 24: C. Riley Snorton - Nonbinary Archives & the Grammar of Experience
May 16: Black Life: Mandy Harris Williams
Nov. 18: Reparations after 400 years