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Located just past the entrance of the “Gateway to Bronzeville, on the circular median on King Drive and 26th Place, ” the fifteen foot tall statue named “The Monument to the Great Northern Migration” represents the 6,000,000 African American men, women and children that migrated to the south side of Chicago in the 1920′s, 30′s and [...]
Billed as the oldest and largest African American parade in the U.S., Chicago’s Bud Billiken Parade has been held on every second Saturday since 1929. Attracting thousands of spectators along its route, the parade marks for many the unofficial beginning of the end of summer. It features politicians, beauty queens, celebrities, musical performers, and [...]
Billed as the world’s largest free outdoor gospel festivals, the Chicago Gospel Music Festival (at Millennium Park) features three days of entertainment and more than 90 live performances on three stages from some of the top gospel acts in the world. See the festival’s offical website for schedule of events and other information. For more [...]
The only research center of its kind in the country, the Center for Black Music Research’s (CBMR) mission is to documents, collect, preserve, and disseminate information about the common roots and parallel histories of black music in all parts of the world. In addition to their central mission of research and preservation, the CBMR also [...]
Founded by Robert S. Abbott in 1905, the Chicago Defender, whose banner once touted itself as “The Mouthpiece of 14 Million People: Carries More Live News of Racial Interest Than Any Ten Weeklies,” was the nation’s most influential black weekly newspaper by the advent of World War I, with more than two thirds of its [...]
Harpo Studios (the name ‘Harpo’ is ‘Oprah’ spelled backwards) is where Opray Winfrey tapes her successfully talk show, as well as the site of her state of the art television, film and publishing empire. Opened in 1988, Harpo Studios is located about a mile west of Chicago’s downtown and has been credited with helping revitalize the surrounding neighbourhood known as the West [...]
Synopsis: In the 1940s, the federal government sent a group of gifted photographers across the United States to record and publicize conditions in cities, towns, and rural areas that were the destination of an unprecedented migration. Two of these photographers, Russell Lee and Edwin Rosskam, spent time on Chicago’s South Side, eventually producing over a [...]
Bronzeville by Night, Archibald Motley The large expanse of Chicago’s South Side today called Bronzeville (“the Black Metropolis”) evolved into one Chicago’s most dynamic and elegant communities in the late 1800s. Fairly affluent and solidly middle class by the mid-30s, it was the site of Chicago’s version of the Harlem Renaissance and was home to [...]
As Northern U.S. industrialization took off during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the demand for labor was met by extensive immigration from Europe. World War I produced yet another economic boom while at the same time closing the seemingly endless supply of labor. Pulled by the economic opportunities in the North and pushed by [...]
The Jazz Institute of Chicago was founded in 1969 by a small band of jazz fans, writers, club owners and musicians who came together to preserve the historical roots of the Chicago’s jazz music when rock ‘n roll had become the reigning cultural and financial force in American music. The Institute sponsors the world renown [...]
Named after Chicago’s first Afro-American Mayor, Harold Washington Cultural Center is a 1000 seat performance theater located in the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago. It was originally to be named the Lou Rawls Cultural Center, but Alderman Tillman changed the name without telling Rawls. The Center is located on a historical corner in the [...]
Named in honor of Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, a Haitian fur trader and the first non-Native-American permanent settler in Chicago, the DuSable Museum of African American History is the first and oldest museum dedicated to the study and conservation of African American history, culture, and art. The holdings include more than 15,000 paintings, drawing, sculptures, books, [...]
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