The PBS series The Future of America’s Past created a short documentary on how artists and activists in Chicago have worked to recover the history of the 1919 riot. The 27-minute program features Eve Ewing, Jefferson Pinder, Newberry Library scholars, and young Chicago poets. Around the 20-minute mark, CRR19 co-directors Peter Cole and Franklin Cosey-Gay are interviewed about CRR19’s efforts to commemorate the victims of the event. Watch the documentary online at the PBS website.
CRR19 participated in a Black History Classroom Exchange program that drew connections between the violence on Black Wall Street in 1921 and Chicago in 1919. The virtual exchange included high school students from South Shore Read more…
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and national BLM rebellion, CRR19 co-directors Peter Cole and Franklin Cosey-Gay published an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune on the importance of public art to address Chicago’s history Read more…
Project founder Peter Cole spoke with TIME ahead of the official launch of CRR19 about emerging efforts to remember the Chicago Race Riot and the influence of Germany’s Stolpersteine Project on CRR19’s approach to commemoration. Read more…