The DuSable Museum | 740 East 56th Place | Chicago, IL 60637 | 773.947.0600

Thursday, July 16, 2015

6:30PM (Doors open at 6PM)

Illinois Black Legislatures Auditorium Admission: $10.00

Purchase tickets on Eventbrite: http://thedusablemuseum.eventbrite.com

**The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America will be on sale for $20.00**

(Illustration by Curt Merlo)

Join the DuSable Museum as we host a lecture and book signing with the

distinguished Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center

for Research in Black Culture, a research division of the New York Public

Library.

Dr. Muhammad, a native of Chicagos South Side, is an award winning author. His book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of

Modern Urban America, won the 2011 John Hope Franklin Best Book award in

American Studies. As an academic, Dr. Muhammad is at the forefront of

scholarship on racial criminalization.

We need in every bay and community a group of angelic troublemakers.Bayard Rustin