All Social Justice Initiative
May 3, 2024
Historian Barbara Ransby elected to American Academy of Arts and SciencesRansby is the sixth UIC faculty member to be elected to the prestigious academy
June 28, 2022
UIC’s Social Justice Initiative Portal Project awarded $1.5M grantThe Marguerite Casey Foundation supports leaders, scholars and initiatives focused on shifting the balance of power in society
July 30, 2020
Professor Barbara Ransby named MacArthur ChairInfluential UIC historian and writer becomes university’s first MacArthur chair
September 26, 2019
‘Angola 3’ prisoner discusses life in solitary confinement during UIC presentationMore than 200 attend Albert Woodfox’s talk, sponsored by the UIC Social Justice Initiative
April 23, 2018
Puerto Rico, post-Hurricane MariaCarmen Yulín Cruz, mayor of San Juan, addresses UIC audience
July 1, 2015
UIC wins Mellon grant for social justice series$175,000 award supports seminars on the meaning of freedom in 21st century
March 17, 2015
Nobel laureates visit UIC to mark anniversaryCelebrating Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom