In the Know
Journalist Laura Washington moderates this monthly series that explores contemporary issues affecting life in Chicago.
Select Tuesdays, 6:30–8:00 p.m.
Cost: Free admission
Studs Terkel's Race: Then and Now
Tuesday, May 8, 6:30 p.m.
This May marks the centennial of Chicago’s beloved oral historian Studs Terkel. To commemorate him, we are going to take his book “Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession” off the shelf to see how it compares to today. In the early nineties, Terkel interviewed a cross-section of America, many were Chicagoans, to find out how Blacks and Whites think and feel about race. In twenty years, much has changed and yet according to the 2010 census, Chicago remains one of the most segregated cities in America. Join us as we continue the conversation that Studs Terkel began for us exactly two decades ago.
Panelists will include: Natalie Moore, reporter at WBEZ’s South Side bureau in Englewood, Salim Muwakkil, Senior Editor of In These Times, an op-ed columnist for the Chicago Tribune, who was interviewed by Studs Terkel in his book Race in 1992, and María de Los Angeles Torres, director and professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Media Partner
