Celebrate the Living Legacy of Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells – one of the greatest civil rights leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After her newspaper in Memphis, Free Speech, was destroyed, Wells moved to Chicago, where she became a crusader against lynching and an advocate for women’s rights.

The tradition of activism that she launched in Chicago continues to this day.

Join us on March 28, as we celebrate Ida B. Wells’ legacy and commitment to free expression for all.

March 28, 2024

5pm – 8pm

Logan Center, Performance Hall

915 E 60^th St

Chicago, IL 60637

Speakers and performers include the following and several others:

• Adam Green, Associate Professor in the Departments of Race, Diaspora, & Indigeneity and History, and the College
• Aislinn Pulley, Executive Director of Chicago Torture Justice Center
• Anwuli Anigbo, Development Director at the Invisible Institute
• Dan Duster, Motivational Speaker and Ida B. Wells’ great-grandson
• Jamila Woods, poet
• Morgan Elise Johnson, Co-founder and Publisher at The TRiiBE 
• Natalie Moore, WBEZ journalist, author, and playwright
• Paula J. Giddings, Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor Emerita of Africana Studies at Smith College

This event is co-presented by The Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, and The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, in partnership with WTTW. Reception included.

Lead support for the Chicago Forum’s Zell Speaker and Event Series comes from the Zell Family Foundation.