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Events

Nov. 20, 2025

“Governing Through Surveillance: How Criminal Legal Policies and Processes Transform Black Neighborhoods”, 2025 BMRC Fellows Fall Presentation by Brandon Alston – Dec 3, 2025

Nov. 10, 2025

A Framework for Future Preservation: The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs’ Black Archival and Cultural Stewardship Practices in Chicago’s South Side – Nov 21, 2025

Nov. 3, 2025

“Intersecting Margins: Amplifying Calvin Ashford’s Interior Design Legacy from Chicago and Beyond” by Will Fryer & Cotter Christian – Nov 14, 2025

Oct. 22, 2025

“Mapping Era Bell Thompson: Ebony and the Popularization of a Pan-African Consciousness”, 2025 BMRC Fellows Fall Presentation by Martha Patterson – Nov 6, 2025

Oct. 13, 2025

“Greenlining the Ghetto: Housing Rehabilitation & Black Power Politics”, 2025 BMRC Fellows Fall Presentation by Eric Peterson – Oct 29, 2025

Oct. 10, 2025

2025 BMRC Annual Meeting - October 14, 2025

The BMRC invites you to its 2025 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Oct. 6, 2025

“Black Politics and Education Crises at the Turn of the 1980s”, 2025 BMRC Fellows Fall Presentation by Nicholas Kryczka – Oct 22, 2025

Sept. 17, 2025

“Exploring the Educational Journeys of African Immigrant Youth in the Chicago Metropolis: 1980 – Present”, 2025 BMRC Fellows Fall Presentation by Ada Onyewuenyi - Sep 30, 2025

Sept. 4, 2025

"What We Owe the South: Stories Rooted in Black Culture and Grown in the Great Migration" 2025 Fellows Fall Presentation by Arionne Nettles - September 18, 2025

The BMRC invites you to join us for our first presentation in the 2025 Fellows Fall Speaker Series on September 18, 2025 at 11.30am (CST) given by Dr. Arionne Nettles