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Dr. Anita Mixon has completed her program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Communication, and has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Wayne State University.
January 26, 2020 @ 1:00-3:30 pm at Stony Island Arts Bank, featuring readings by Jonathan Holloway and avery r young, and a panel discussion moderated by Marcia McWilliams of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium.
BMRC Fellow Amani Morrison has been awarded the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Short-Term Travel Fellowship.
The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago will host a multi-tiered academic project on the under-recognized impact of African American commercial photographers working in Chicago from 1890 through the 1930s.
The BMRC was featured on UChicago News in an article titled "Students, scholars explore African-American archives in Chicago libraries."
It is with deep sadness that the BMRC announces the passing of former BMRC Fellow Doria Dee Johnson.
Andrea Jackson was featured on the blog "Archiving in Color."
The former BMRC Fellow's work "Double" will be featured at the Museum of Science and Industry from January 15 – February 21, 2018
"Race," developed by the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota, is the first national exhibition to tell the stories of race from the biological, cultural, and historical points of view.