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PROFOUND!
Every
Wednesday Night in February! This Black History Month, The DuSable
Museum of African American History will partner with Trinity United Church of
Christ to bring you a very special program!
The DuSable Museum
and the Illinois Amistad Commission present: MAAFA or the African Holocaust is a
term used to describe the history and on-going effects of atrocities inflicted
on African people. The MAAFA includes the Arab and Atlantic slave trades, and
continued through other forms of oppression to the present day. On the four (4)
Wednesdays and the four (4) Sundays in February 2014, The DuSable Museum of
African American History will partner with Trinity United Church of Christ to
present this very special programming. RSVPs Below!
Wednesday,
February 5, 6:30 PMMAAFA: Ghana (RSVP!) – The story of Kwame Nkrumah and Ghana
independence. Documentary - Winds of Change
Wednesday,
February 19, 6:30 PMMAAFA: New Orleans (RSVP!) – (Louisiana)
Louisiana documentaries on the land, people and culture - a discussion with
Jihad Muhammad and filmmaker Masequa Myers
Wednesday,
February 26, 6:30 PMMAAFA: Chicago (RSVP!) – Panel Discussion with
Rev Moss, Dr. Adams, Professor Chris Reed
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Due to its unique
geographic position between the slave states of Missouri and Kentucky to the
South, and the free territories of Canada to the North, scores of Africans found
Illinois an ideal region to escape bondage.
Renowned
Underground Railroad historian Glennette Tilley-Turner will examine individual
and collective accounts of the agency, resiliency, and bravery that led scores
from bondage to freedom and highlights Illinois’ legacy of resistance that we
can all be proud of. For more information call 773 947-0600 Ext 223.
DATE: Thursday, February 6, 2014; TIME: 6:30pm
– 9:00pm; COST: Admission: FREE
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A.W.E.some! A.W.E. (Art, Wine, & Entertainment) offers you an
evening of awe inspiring art work, uncommon wines, and eclectic entertainment.
Connect with other Chicago-land art lovers as you enjoy live art demonstrations,
spoken word performances, Afrobeat music, and exclusive tours of special
exhibits.
Sen/su-ali-ty
(n): Of the body and the senses as distinguished from intellect and the
excessive devotion to sensual pleasure. Join us on Valentine’s Day at the
DuSable Museum as we artistically explore the 5 senses through live art demos,
Tango Negro, spoken word, aromatherapy, music and all out fun. $15.00 on
The DuSable Museum EventBrite.com page or $20.00 at the door - RSVP to 773
947-0600 Ext. 254 (Must be 21 years or older) DATE:
Friday, February 14, 2014; TIME: Starts at 7:00pm!;
COST: Admission: FREE
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In the pre-Civil
War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is
abducted and sold into slavery. During Solomon’s 12 years of forced enslavement
he faces cruelty at the hands of a malevolent slave owner, as well as unexpected
kindnesses; Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity.
Join us as we dissect Solomon’s harrowing true story from enslavement to
freedom.The Film is rated R. Children under the age of 17 must be accompanied by
an adult. Purchase Tickets Today! For More information call
773 947-0600 EXT 255 DATE: Thursday, February 20, 2014;
TIME: 6:30pm – 9:00pm; COST: Admission:
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The seminal 1954
Brown vs. the Board of Education ruling suggested that African American’s would
finally be able to utilize the resources of public education as a pathway
towards equity and upward mobility. Unfortunately, 60 years later this promise
has never fully materialized.The DuSable Museum and the Illinois Amistad
Commission will host a series of public lectures examining America’s history of
educating people of color, and what needs to happen to assure greater equity and
student achievement in the future. Panelists include:
* Williams C.
Ayers – University of Illinois at Chicago
* Ronald Bailey – University of
Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
* F. Erik Brooks – Western Illinois University
* Josef Ben Levi – Northeastern Illinois University
* Therese Quinn –
University of Illinois at Chicago
* David Omotoso Stovall – University of
Illinois at Chicago
* Asantewaa Oppong Wadie - Aba Educational Consultants
* Dr. Chandra Gill
DATE:
Saturday, February 22, 2014; TIME: 1:00pm – 3:00pm;
COST: Admission: FREE
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The DuSable Museum
of African American History and the Illinois Amistad Commission are pleased to
present “Suite DuSable: A Vision of Faith,” by world renowned composer, Renée
Baker. This symphonic poem presented in collaboration with Chicago Modern
Orchestra Project and AACM, is a tribute to Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the
founder of Chicago. This piece is a celebration of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable’s
visionary journey, tracing in sound the water routes traveled and choice
encounters by Chicago’s first settler from his home in Haiti in the Atlantic
Ocean through various waterways leading to the Great
Lakes.DATE: Friday, February 28, 2014; TIME:
7:00pm – 9:00pm; COST: Admission: DuSable Members – $10.00;
General Admission (Non-Members): $20.00
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NOW
OPEN at The DuSable Museum of African American History, "Beyond
Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges"
By the time World
War II began on September 1, 1939, Germany had purged itself of its Jewish
professors, scientists, and scholars. Some of these academics, deprived of their
livelihoods by the Nazis, found refuge in the United States. But in this new
world, they faced an uncertain future. A few dozen refugee scholars unexpectedly
found positions in historically black colleges in the American South. There, as
recent escapees from persecution in Nazi Germany, they came face to face with
the absurdities of a rigidly segregated Jim Crow society. In their new
positions, they met, taught, and interacted with students who had grown up in,
and struggled with, this racist environment. Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow
explores the unlikely coming together of these two groups, each the object of
exclusion and hatred, and examines the ongoing encounter between them as they
navigated the challenges of life in the segregated South.
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NOW
OPEN at The DuSable Museum of African American History, "The
Endangered Species: A Visual Response to the Vanishing Black Man."
Against the backdrop of exquisite beauty, this show interrogates masculinity,
sexuality, slavery, vanity, mental poverty and the futility of aspiration. Each
piece is a riotous installation—a visual treasure hunt. Bespoke top hats, gilded
icons, and ancient timepieces knit together with vibrant butterflies, luscious
flowers, and florid peacock eyes to tell the story of black folk. These collages
in three-dimension represent archeology of black America—Welch’s tribute to a
dying race. “From within a fields of color and metaphor, black men
lookout—beautiful but without hope-vanishing.” This exhibit is curated
by Raub Welch
Selection
from the Artist's Statements. To tell the truth is noble, but to evoke
it—that’s art. When I think about the purpose of my art —that is, how I want it
to affect those who experience it— it always comes back to truth.
Simple,unassuming, yet astoundingly poignant truth. This exhibit uses the
unsettling power of juxtaposition to re-tell the truths of black manhood. We as
a society have graduated to a misguided comfort when it comes to defining the
black man: dutiful, aggressive, industrious, thoughtless, strong and most
incorrectly, simple. As creatures, we (black men) carry a narrative too ghastly
and nightmarish to ever qualify as merely “simple.” The larger issue (and
perhaps the focus of my exhibit) is that we have completely divorced the concept
of beauty from the black man. My exhibit aims to interrogate these prejudices,
reassess our own predispositions, and redefine the black male as an entity that
is beautifully complex, and longing for humanity.These various pieces are
designed to provocatively reconnect the idea of beauty to the black male. I draw
inspiration from seemingly arbitrary sources, and assemble them into what might
initially seem to be a potpourri of unconnected themes. Upon further inspection
and deliberation, the truths reveal themselves and the beauty resonates. Relics
and rituals from black male culture are married with nature.– Raub
Welch
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START A
LEGACY.
Take
advantage of all the DuSable Museum of African American History has to offer by
becoming a part of our membership family – Today! Your membership to the Museum,
will help keep the legacy of education and enlightenment flourishing for
generations to come.
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