Join us for a Black History Month Celebration on Feb. 26th with special guest speaker, Natalie Moore! We’ll have a potluck following worship.
Natalie Y. Moore is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, winner of 2016 best nonfiction awards from the Chicago Review of Books and Buzzfeed. Moore is 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. She contributed to Southside, a 2018 collection of stories about the criminal justice system in Chicago, published by the Marshall Project in collaboration with Amazon Original Stories. For the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Chicago riots, she cowrote a thirty-minute audio drama with Make-Believe Association. Her play The Billboard, about abortion and reproductive justice, was produced by 16th Street Theater in Berwyn, IL, in fall of 2021 and published by Haymarket Books.
Natalie is a reporter for WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times, tackling issues of race, housing, economic development and food injustice.
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