Past Events

Jun 27 2025
SOLD OUT: 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, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Aug 9 2024
Echoes of Ferguson: Exhibition Opening
Friday, 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Jul 26 2024
21st Century Internationalism: The Building of A Global Freedom Movement
Friday, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Feb 20 2024
A Conversation With Demita Frazier:
Tuesday, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Chicago Justice Gallery
Oct 11 2023
Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice
Wednesday, 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
May 21 2023
Freedom Dreams and Chicago Futures
Sunday, 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
SCE Illinois Room
Apr 6 2023
All Eyes on Haiti: Occupations, Migrations, and Reparations
Thursday, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Apr 12 2023
Translating Blackness: Lorgia García Peña and Barbara Ransby in Conversation
Wednesday, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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
Young woman standing in grocery store where she was made to feel she didn't belong
Online Exhibition Opening Featuring work of Tonika Johnson
Wednesday, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Online
Jun 15 2020
Police Politics Power and Race
Police, Politics, Power and Race - Chicago In Crisis
Monday, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Online
May 29 2020
Housing Justice in the time of Coronavirus
Housing Justice: Imagining & Demanding in the time of Coronavirus
Friday, 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Online
May 14 2020
Education Justice Event Flyer
Education Justice: Demanding and Imagining in the time of Coronavirus
Thursday, 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Online
May 7 2020
soldiers holding up a flag that says solidarity, title imagining and demanding economic justice
Economic Justice: Imagining and Demanding in the Time of Coronavirus
Thursday, 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Online
Apr 23 2020
Understanding the Coronavirus from a Racial and Social justice lens
Understanding the Coronavirus Pandemic Through the Lens of Racial and Social Justice
Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online
Nov 8 2019
Taina Asili
Music, Culture, Community and Struggle with Taina Asili
Friday, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
MC 034
Oct 2 2019
Image of Prexy Nesbitt sitting in a chair smiling
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, how banks and the real estate industry undermined Black homeownership
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, book cover
An Evening with Albert Woodfox
Tuesday, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Student Center East, Rm. 302