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Join us on March 13, 2024, as BMRC members and affiliates discuss their latest work to document Black experiences in Chicago.

Join us Friday, December 8 at 12 PM CT for the BMRC Fellows' Fall Speaker Series! Librarian and independent Writer, Jene Watson will present "Juba, Calinda, Bamboula: The Life of Maud Cuney Hare (A Story for Young Readers)."

Join us Friday, November 17 at 11 AM CT for the BMRC Fellows' Fall Speaker Series! Dr. Amanda J. Hall will present "A Child is Dying in Soweto: Black Chicago and Freedom for South Africa."

On Wed, November 15 at 3 PM CT for the BMRC Fellows' Fall Speaker Series! Olivier Maheo, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent, will present "The DuSable Museum and the Re-appropriation of History. How Black Left Activists Thwarted McCarthyism in the Cultural Sphere"

Join us on Wednesday, November 1 at 12 noon CST for the next session of the BMRC Fellows' Fall Speaker Series! Eve Wade, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington will present " 'Chicago is a Place for Them:' Migration Clubs and the Black Metropolis"

Join us on Wednesday, November 8 at 11 a.m. CST for the next session of the BMRC Fellows' Fall Speaker Series! Agnieszka Tuszynska, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY will present “A Damn Hard Fight”: The Life and Work of Willard Motley"

The 2024 Summer Short-Term Fellowship application period is October 13 - December 11.

Join us on Wednesday, October 25, at 12 p.m. CST for the next session of the series. Asif Wilson, Asst. Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign will present "Right to the City: Black Organizing, the 1980s Education Summits, and a Model for participatory democracy"

This summer the BMRC welcomes three University of Chicago, undergraduate interns through the Office of Career Advancement's new, "Just-In-Time-Recruitment" program. They are our inaugural cohort of Metcalf Interns which is very exciting and will prove especially helpful.