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    Your gift is an act of care

    Your support allows us to keep looking closely: to preserve history that might otherwise be lost, bring artists, residents, scholars, and visitors together, and create space for the questions history asks of us.

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    Jillian Carew: “A Beautiful Struggle”

    In this Out of the Archives podcast episode, Jillian Carew shares a life history of dance on Chicago’s Far South Side.

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    Jackie Taylor: “Another Sense of Existence”

    In this Out of the Archives podcast episode, Jackie Taylor—playwright, actress, musician, director, and the founder of the Black Ensemble Theatre—shares her story.

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    Announcing the Shelly Baskin Living Room

    We’re honored to announce a major gift from the Baskin Family Foundation.

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    Tom Tom Washington: “You Hear What I Do”

    In this Out of the Archives podcast episode, Tom Tom Washington shares how growing in the Ida B. Wells Homes shaped his prolific career as a musician and composer

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    Katherine Davis: “Make Something from Within Yourself”

    This Out of the Archives podcast episode features narrator Katherine Davis, who grew up in Cabrini-Green Homes and shares her journey of becoming a professional musician.

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