Remembering 1919/Confronting 2020: Race Riots, Public Art, & Chicago Then and Now

In cities across the country, Americans are fiercely arguing about which statues should stay up or come down. Meanwhile, the bloody Chicago Race Riots of 1919 have gone unmarked with any public monument for more than a century (though that is about to change).  What events from our past do we choose to recognize, and which do we choose to erase?  And how do those choices inform our present, and shape our future? Join us in The Infinite Room for a conversation with Dr. Peter Cole and Dr. Franklin Cosey-Gay of Chicago Race Riot 1919 Commemoration Project about Chicago’s Red Summer, and the plans to make history come alive on our streets.