2025 BMRC Annual Meeting - October 14, 2025
The BMRC invites you to its 2025 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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Events
"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
2025 Archie Motley Intern Presentations - August 13, 2025
Please join us to hear from 2025 Archie Motley Archival Interns about their work in BMRC member institution archives this summer.
Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children- May 20, 2025
The BMRC is honored to co-sponsor Dr. Eve Ewing's discussion of her new book, "Original Sins: the (Mis) education of Black and Native Children"
“Danc(ing) the Archive: Colored Bodies and the Afro-fabulation of Black Representation” May 15
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
" I Leave You Hope, I Leave you Faith, I Leave you Love" The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune - April 15, 2025
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.
Women's History Month Program March 18, 2025
"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.