Thu, May 27, 8p
Sara Stender Delaney
Sarilla Sparkling Tea founder and owner Sara Stender Delaney talks to us about trading fairly with Rwandan tea growers and the impact her products’ consumers are having in Rwanda. Her company reflects her passion, skills, and determination to create quality products for the beverage industry in an equitable fashion.
Thu, May 27, 8:30p
Amir Muhammad
Amir Muhammad is among the foremost historians and researchers of the Islamic experience in the United States. Muhammad is the president, co-founder, with his wife Habeebah Muhammad, and curator of America’s Islamic Heritage Museum.
Health/COVID-19
COVID-19 Self Test
free
Recorded and Upcoming End-of-Life Planning Webinars
Referral Service: The National Partnership for Hospice Innovation
For in-home elderly medical care (versus a more risky emergency room visit)
1-844-438-6744
Virtual Glaucoma Patient Summit 2021
Glaucoma Research Foundation
Sat, Jun 26, 11a-3p, $25
Theater
Keffiyeh/Made In China
(Ramallah-based playwright DaliaTaha's utterly distinct slices of Palestinian life are at times unsettling, heartbreaking, and humorous - as parents, lovers, sisters and friends cope with a decades-long occupation. These exquisite short plays explore how the most intimate of relationships are infiltrated by colonization and displacement.)
Art
Struggle: From the History of the American People
Jacob Lawrence
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle
now through Sun, May 23
Struggle: From the History of the American People
Jacob Lawrence
The Phillips Collection
Washington, D.C.
Sat, Jun 26-Sun, Sep 19
Black History
Bright Promise,Bitter Betrayal: The Story of Black Reconstruction, the Nadir, & The Path Forward
CR Gibbs
Fri, May 21, 7p
Meeting ID: 947 6934 0592
Passcode: 420152
Ida B. Wells
(a one-hour Chicago Stories special and companion website)
on all WTTW platforms
Fri, May 21, 8p
Race Today
Join Us for Our Conversation On George Floyd, One Year Later
Moderated by CR Gibbs
Sun, May 23, 3p-4p
Dorothy Porter Wesley and Book Collection Building
(Janet-Sims Woods, Karen Jefferson, and Paul Coates talkabout the builder of the Moorland-Spingarn Collection)
May 23, 6p
Tulsa and Red Summer (a trailer)
National Geographic Society
Fri, Jun 18, 9p on National Geographic
Sat, Jun 19, on Hulu
includes POH's CR Gibbs
Abraham Lincoln Institute Online Lincoln Symposium
The Underground Railroad in Washington, D.C. with CR Gibbs
Ford's Theater
100 Years From Mississippi Trailer
(2.5 minutes of history, ignore the warning of graphic images)
Becoming Douglass Commonwealth: From D.C. Disenfranchisement to Full Democracy
CR Gibbs start around 12:18 minutes
Voices of the Freedom Riders
By The Obama Foundation
West Africans in Early America
Access Passcode: lTW.!i92
Wayne Young
Service Now for Adults Persons
Queens, New York
Frederick Douglass Walking Tour
Baltimore
Lou Fields, 443-983-7974
Children and Young Adults
The Bookworm Garden: A Bug’s Life
(Stretch your bodies and join us outdoors for a new nature-inspired theme and related children’s story and craft each month this spring. Little ones and their caregivers can learn, create, and grow together while taking a closer look at what is blooming in Riversdale’s beautiful gardens.)
rdfg Riversdale House Museum
4811 Riverdale Rd.
Sat, Jun 19, 11a-12p, $5-$6