Events

Colorism as a concept was coined and first used by Alice Walker in her 1982 book "In Search of Our Mothers Gardens" to describe the unconscious hostility that exists between light-skinned and dark-skinned black women within the African-American community. She defines colorism as "the prejudicial and

On April 15, 2025, The BMRC in collaboration with University Libraries and Women and Leadership Archives at Loyola University Chicago invites you to a talk on Mary McCleod Bethune given by Dr. Noliwe Rooks.

"Continually Working: Finding and Telling Stories of Black Women's Economic Activism in the Urban Midwest" Join us on March 18 from 11:30 AM -1:30 PM in the Regenstein Library, JRL 122, University of Chicago. We are thrilled to have Dr. Crystal Moten, Lead Curator for The Obama Presidential Center.

The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) is chartering a bus from Chicago to visit the Gwendolyn Brooks Collection at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign .

We hope you will JOIN US on February 19th at 6:00 PM at Blackstone Library, 4904 S. Lake Park Ave., Chicago, IL 60615 Dr. LaVerne Gray, a 2024 and 2017 BMRC Fellow, is a native Chicagoan, and Assistant Professor within Syracuse University's School of Information Studies (iSchool).

The BMRC will be taking part in Gary Comer Youth Center's Black History Month event dedicated to the preservation of our history and legacy.