Reimagining and Remembering Series: Say Her Re-Naming / Douglass Park
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, February 24th, from 12PM - 2:30PM
Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor East
Speakers: Bianca Jones
Join Chicago-based educator, community organizer, facilitator, and producer Bianca Jones for an exploration into organizing principles, freedom spaces, and public monuments. Jones was at the helm of the groundbreaking “Change The Name Campaign: Anna and Douglass Park.”
A Long Walk Home is a Chicago-based national non-profit that cultivates the next generation of leaders committed to gender equity and racial justice.
Founded in 2003 by sisters Salamishah and Scheherazade Tillet, A Long Walk Home works with artists, students, activists, therapists, and community organizations and cultural institutions to elevate marginalized voices, facilitate healing, and activate social change.
Twenty years before #MeToo, A Long Walk Home emerged as a leading organization in the United States using black feminist justice approaches to combat gender violence and racism. A Long Walk Home has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Teen Vogue, and on MSNBC.
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