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Knitting For Mutual Aid
Knitting For Mutual Aid

Nabala Cafe, 4660 N. Broadway Ave, Chicago

Feb. 20, 2026, 7 p.m.

Donations for 19th District Mutual Aid Migrant Support. Join us for a knitting night for migrant mutual aid on Friday, February 20th! Even if you don't knit, support the cafe and donate high needs items: underwear, sweatpants, long sleeved shirts, toothpaste, shampoo, and pads. Knitted/donated it... More

Rhythms of Liberation - Cumbia 101
Rhythms of Liberation - Cumbia 101

Casa DuPage Workers Center, 311 S Naperville Rd Suite C, Wheaton, IL

Feb. 20, 2026, 6:30 p.m.

💃🏽Join us as we explore Cumbia’s African origins and roots in resistance. Following a discussion we’ll have a dance workshop! 💵 $10 suggested donation ✊🏾 Culture has always played in a role in not only defending our communities, but lighting the path towards liberation. It holds the memory of ... More

Resisting Trump's Billionaire Agenda
Resisting Trump's Billionaire Agenda

Virtual

Feb. 20, 2026, 6 p.m.

Join this incredible panel to learn more about how we build a stronger movement to defeat authoritarianism and build a better world for Black, brown and working class children everywhere. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/m_hM0xAcQEi35Wdn2fEtHA#/registration... More

Liberation Flick - "The Killing Floor"
Liberation Flick - "The Killing Floor"

Chicago Liberation Center, 2712 W. Cermak Road, Chicago

Feb. 20, 2026, 6 p.m.

Join us for a screening of ‘The Killing Floor,’ which tells the story of Black sharecropper Frank Custer’s journey from Mississippi to Chicago, where he becomes a meatpacking worker and unionist. 🍼 Childcare provided on site. 🍕 Free food available for attendees. Based on historical research i... More

Understanding Bad Bunny
Understanding Bad Bunny

Goodspeed Hall, Fulton Recital Hall, University of Chicago, 1010 E. 59th St, Chicago

Feb. 20, 2026, noon - Feb. 20, 2026, 1:30 p.m.

A conversation with Jessica S. Baker, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, and Danielle Roper. Please come join us to enjoy and learn more about Bad Bunny’s music. This event will feature three faculty from the Division of the Arts & Humanities who are experts on Afro-Caribbean music and performance, Puerto Rican ... More

Feeding Our Neighbors & Donate Warm Clothes
Feeding Our Neighbors & Donate Warm Clothes

4600 S. Greenwood Ave, Chicago

Feb. 20, 2026, 8 a.m. - Feb. 20, 2026, 2 p.m.

Volunteer opportunity. Everyone welcome! Sign up at socialchange.site This event is made possible in partnership with Social Change, BLACC, AHF, Kenwood United Church of Christ, Co-Lab for Social Equity, Rights & Restoration Law Group, Chicago Housing Authority, The Springfield Project, State Sen... More

Fund Medicaid, Not Detention Centers!
Fund Medicaid, Not Detention Centers!

Louis Pastuer Monument, near 1831 W Congress Pkwy, Chicago

Feb. 19, 2026, 8 p.m.

This Thursday Feb 19 at 8:00 pm at the Louis Pasteur monument healthcare unions and allies will be rallying to fund Medicaid, not ICE... More

Citizenship: Notes On an American Myth by Daisy Hernández
Citizenship: Notes On an American Myth by Daisy Hernández

Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N. Clark St, Chicago

Feb. 19, 2026, 7 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 8:30 p.m.

Women & Children First Bookstore hosts Daisy Hernández to celebrate the release of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth. For this event, Daisy will be joined in conversation by Sarah Schulman. This event will be held at the bookstore and is free to attend, but will also act as a fundraiser for Mid... More

Yalla Parkour Film Screening
Yalla Parkour Film Screening

Location provided upon RSVP.

Feb. 19, 2026, 7 p.m.

Join Climbers for Palestine Chicago for a film screening of @yallaparkourfilm on Thursday Feb 19th, 7 pm in Chicago. We’ll be selling some merch, raffling off some prizes and will have tea and desserts. Please donate generously as 100% of proceeds raised will support the families of the Gazan athlet... More

The Spies Among Us
The Spies Among Us

Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave, Chicago

Feb. 19, 2026, 6 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 9 p.m.

Haymarket Books is proud to present the next installment in our community film series: Films for a Changing World🎬Join us Thursday, February 19th for a screening of Jamie Coughlin Silverman and Gabriel Silverman’s 2025 documentary: The Spies Among Us. The film will be followed by a discussion led by... More

Beating Bovino - How Attorneys Secured a Victory in Bogus Murder for Hire Trial
Beating Bovino - How Attorneys Secured a Victory in Bogus Murder for Hire Trial

Grace Place, 637 S. Dearborn St, Chicago

Feb. 19, 2026, 6 p.m.

In October, the U.S. Attorney charged Juan Espinoza Martinez with a bogus charge of offering a bounty to kill Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino. The government circulated false information that Mr. Espinoza Martinez was a Latin King gang member who was offering up to $10,000.00 for Bovino's mur... More

60 Years of Housing Activism: MLK Jr. & the Chicago Freedom Movement
60 Years of Housing Activism: MLK Jr. & the Chicago Freedom Movement

University of Chicago, Ida Noyes Hall, Cloister Club, 1212 E. 59th St, Chicago

Feb. 19, 2026, 5:30 p.m.

It’s been exactly 60 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his family moved to the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, with a sharp focus on a discriminatory and unaffordable housing crisis. A stellar panel of journalists, scholars, activists and stakeholders reflect on this legacy, and wh... More

Artist Talk with Yohance Lacour
Artist Talk with Yohance Lacour

Co-Prosperity, 3219 S. Morgan St, Chicago

Feb. 19, 2026, 5 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 7 p.m.

Peabody Award & Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. This year, we’re launching the Podcast Lab, a new program for advanced media artists ages 18-25. Led by Peabody Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Yohance Lacour (You Didn’t See Nothin), the Podcast Lab is a 6-month program in which fo... More

Lessons From Minnesota
Lessons From Minnesota

Virtual

Feb. 19, 2026, 1 p.m.

We’re so inspired by the organized strength in Minnesota. From waging the first general strike in decades to building hyperlocal ICE defense networks, we can learn so much from the diversity of tactics that organizers in Minnesota are using to protect each other. It’s on us to take the Lessons from ... More

Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Chicago Freedom Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Chicago Freedom Movement

Ida Noyes Cloister Club, 1212 E. 59th St, Chicago

Feb. 19, 2026, 12:30 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 1:30 p.m.

It’s been exactly 60 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his family moved to the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, with a sharp focus on a discriminatory and unaffordable housing crisis. A stellar panel of journalists, scholars, activists and stakeholders reflect on this legacy and whe... More

Day of Remembrance Vigil
Day of Remembrance Vigil

Broadview ICE Abduction Center, 1930 Beach Street, Broadview, IL

Feb. 19, 2026, noon

Each year on February 19th the Japanese American community reflects upon the consequences of Executive Order 9066 across our generations. Join JACL Chicago and Nikkei Uprising in solidarity with our neighbors detained and murdered. Never Again is Now! RSVP at http://bit/ly/ChicagoDORVigil2026... More

Marronage, Migration, and Black Resistance: A Conversation on Black Histories and Policy
Marronage, Migration, and Black Resistance: A Conversation on Black Histories and Policy

University of Chicago, The Keller Center Sky Suite, 1307 E. 60th St, Chicago

Feb. 18, 2026, 6:30 p.m. - Feb. 18, 2026, 8:30 p.m.

This panel brings together Black Studies scholars whose work examines marronage*, slavery, and Black resistance across geographic, historical, and contemporary contexts. Drawing on archives from the 17th through 19th centuries in the United States and Caribbean, the panelists will explore histories ... More

Thea Riofrancos on Extraction
Thea Riofrancos on Extraction

Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave, Chicago

Feb. 18, 2026, 6:30 p.m.

Join Thea Riofrancos and activist-historian Gabriel Winant for a conversation on Riofrancos’s new book, Extraction. Co-sponsored by Haymarket House and Pilsen Community Books.... More

We Got Us: Our Health, Our Rights, Our Future
We Got Us: Our Health, Our Rights, Our Future

Edith Abbott Hall, 969 E. 60th St, Chicago

Feb. 18, 2026, 6:30 p.m. - Feb. 18, 2026, 8:30 p.m.

Join the University of Chicago's African American Alumni Committee of the Crown Family School Alumni Board as they explore the interconnected roles of health, justice, policy, politics, and community empowerment in shaping the health and well-being of historically marginalized and under-resourced co... More

Renee Good's Murder & Other Acts of Terror
Renee Good's Murder & Other Acts of Terror

CCSRPC Community Room, 5733 S. University Ave, Chicago

Feb. 18, 2026, 5 p.m. - Feb. 18, 2026, 6:30 p.m.

A discussion on Robin D.G. Kelley’s Essay on Renee Good’s Murder. Join us for an intimate pre-reading discussion in advance of our Annual Public Lecture featuring Robin D. G. Kelley. This session will center on Kelley’s powerful essay reflecting on the Minneapolis uprisings following the murder o... More