Join the University of Chicago’s Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture; and WTTW, and the Logan Center for the Arts for a panel discussion on the life and legacy of Ida B. Wells.

About the event: After her newspaper in Memphis, Free Speech, was destroyed, Ida B. Wells moved to Chicago, where she became a crusader against lynching and an advocate for women’s rights. One of the greatest civil rights leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, her legacy of activism continues to this day.

Speakers and performers include:
● Adam Green, Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago
● 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.

Attendees who would like to learn more about Ida B. Wells before the event are invited to view the WTTW Chicago Stories special on Ida B. Wells either on your own at wttw.com/idabwells or at the Logan Center Screening Room on Thursday, March 21st at 5 pm.

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