Past Events
Past Events
Jan
21
2026
Film Screening: Our Disappeared / Nuestros Desaparecidos plus Q&A with director Juan Mandelbaum & Alejandra Dixon
Wednesday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Oct
24
2025
Freedom Fridays with Dr. Davarian Baldwin
Friday, 12:00 pm–1:30 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Sep
26
2025
Opening reception: We're Not All Here / No Estamos Todes recepción de apertura
Friday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Sep
10
2025
The Life, Education, and Legacy of Karen Lewis
Wednesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Cardinal Room 329, UIC Student Center East
Aug
8
2025
Closing Reception: Image, Voice, and Placemaking, 11 Years after Ferguson
Friday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Jul
30
2025
Film Screening: Audre Lorde-The Berlin Years, 1984-1992
Wednesday, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Jun
27
2025
Freedom From and Freedom To
Friday, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Jun
12
2025
Film Screening: Dahomey by Mati Diop
Thursday, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
May
9
2025
Freedom Fridays 1
Friday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Apr
17
2025
Teach In: The Assault on Science, Humanities, and Human Rights
Thursday, 3:30 pm–5:30 pm
UIC Forum, rooms DEF
Mar
27
2025
Letters of Solidarity
Thursday, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Mar
13
2025
Echoes of Healing
Thursday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Mar
6
2025
Closing Schools is a Hate Crime pop-up exhibition
Thursday, 5:00 pm–8:00 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Feb
27
2025
Double Feature: "Beneath the Surface" and "Reimagining Safety" film screening and discussion
Thursday, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Feb
20
2025
Double feature: "The Kinloch Doc" and "Ferguson Rises" film screening
Thursday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Feb
13
2025
Double Feature: "Residue" and "Arkee" film screening
Thursday, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Feb
6
2025
"Whose Streets?" film screening and discussion with director Sabaah Folayan
Thursday, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Jan
15
2025
From MLK to Ferguson: Open House and Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 12:00 pm–6:00 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Oct
30
2024
A Conversation with Afro-Cuban Filmmaker Gloria Rolando
Wednesday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Black Cultural Center, Addams Hall
Sep
20
2024
Through the Portal: Growing the World We Want
Friday 20th, 8:30 am–Sunday 22nd, 4:00 pm
Aug
9
2024
Echoes of Ferguson: Exhibition Opening
Friday, 5:30 pm–8:30 pm
America/Chicago
Chicago Justice Gallery
Jul
26
2024
21st Century Internationalism: The Building of A Global Freedom Movement
Friday, 11:00 am–12:30 pm
America/Chicago
Feb
20
2024
A Conversation With Demita Frazier:
Tuesday, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm
America/Chicago
Chicago Justice Gallery
Oct
11
2023
Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice
Wednesday, 5:30 pm–8:00 pm
America/Chicago
May
21
2023
Freedom Dreams and Chicago Futures
Sunday, 1:00 pm–3:30 pm
America/Chicago
SCE Illinois Room
Apr
6
2023
All Eyes on Haiti: Occupations, Migrations, and Reparations
Thursday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
America/Chicago
Apr
12
2023
Translating Blackness: Lorgia García Peña and Barbara Ransby in Conversation
Wednesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
America/Chicago
Oct
8
2021
Portal Project Inaugural Event: The Future of Freedom
Friday, 3:30 pm–5:00 pm
Online Event
Sep
24
2021
Grand Opening of Chicago Justice Gallery & Belonging Exhibition Viewing
Friday, 5:00 pm–8:00 pm
Sep
9
2020
Online Exhibition Opening Featuring work of Tonika Johnson
Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm
Online
Jun
15
2020
Police, Politics, Power and Race - Chicago In Crisis
Monday, 12:00 pm–1:30 pm
Online
May
29
2020
Housing Justice: Imagining & Demanding in the time of Coronavirus
Friday, 9:00 am–11:00 am
Online
May
14
2020
Education Justice: Demanding and Imagining in the time of Coronavirus
Thursday, 9:00 am–11:00 am
Online
May
7
2020
Economic Justice: Imagining and Demanding in the Time of Coronavirus
Thursday, 9:00 am–10:30 am
Online
Apr
23
2020
Understanding the Coronavirus Pandemic Through the Lens of Racial and Social Justice
Thursday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
Online
Nov
8
2019
Music, Culture, Community and Struggle with Taina Asili
Friday, 7:00 pm–8:30 pm
MC 034
Oct
2
2019
Symposium Honoring the Social Justice Career of Prexy Nesbitt
Wednesday, 1:00 pm–7:30 pm
UIC Student Center East, Illinois Rooms
Oct
30
2019
Race For Profit: A Book talk with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Wednesday, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Student Center East, Rm. 302
Sep
24
2019
An Evening with Albert Woodfox
Tuesday, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Student Center East, Rm. 302