Michigan Avenue Forums at Fourth Presbyterian Church promote civic formation within the Chicagoland community by presenting a series of events that feature important thinkers and public leaders in live lecture or debate format, discussing current issues of civic and ethical priority.

Past Michigan Avenue Forums have featured Elaine Pagels on her book Revelations; Walter Brueggemann on ministry in the twenty-first century; a panel discussion, cohosted with WBEZ, on NATO in the twenty-first century; Nadia Bolz-Weber on her books Pastrix and (two years later) Accidental Saints; and a series on mass incarceration.

Michigan Avenue Forum 2022

“The 1619 Project Revisited: Race, History, and the Future”
A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Natalie Moore

Tuesday, October 18, 2022
7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Sanctuary

Join us in October as we welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, together with WBEZ’s Natalie Moore, for Fourth Presbyterian Church’s 2022 Michigan Avenue Forum, “The 1619 Project Revisited: Race, History, and the Future.” This conversation will be moderated by D. Bradford Hunt, Professor and Chair in the Department of History at Loyola University.

Though space is limited, this event is free and open to the public. Please visit www.fourthchurch.org/forums for updates and more information as this event approaches.

Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter covering racial injustice for the New York Times Magazine and creator of the landmark 1619 Project.The New York Times’ 1619 Project commemorates the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in what would become the United States by examining slavery’s modern legacy and reframing the way we understand this history and the contributions of Black Americans to the nation. Nikole’s lead essay, “Our Democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true,” was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. 

Nikole also has written extensively about school resegregation across the country and chronicled the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act.

In 2016, Nikole Hannah-Jones cofounded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization dedicated to increasing the ranks of investigative reporters of color. Most recently, Nikole has been named the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University. Read more about Nikole here.

Natalie Moore is a nationally recognized, award-winning reporter for WBEZ. Her work covers segregation and inequality and tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice, and violence. Natalie’s work has been broadcast on the BBC, Marketplace, and NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. Natalie is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, winner of the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and a Buzzfeed best nonfiction book of 2016. She is also coauthor of The Almighty Black P. Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation. Natalie is also the author of The Billboard, a play about abortion, which was produced by 16th Street Theater.

Natalie writes a monthly column for the Chicago Sun-Times. Her work has been published in Essence, Ebony, the Chicago Reporter, Bitch, In These Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Guardian. Read more about Natalie here.