A Raisin in the Sun Public Programs: Agora

Don’t miss the newest installment of the Agora Series - A Dream Deferred: Black Mobility and Housing - one of the public programs complementing Court Theatre’s production of A Raisin in the Sun. 

Join Court Theatre and the National Public Housing Museum for an evening of art, exploration, and conversation about the history of housing injustice. In a conversation moderated by the Museum’s Executive Director Lisa Lee, housing advocates and experts – as well as scholars from the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice – will interrogate the well-intentioned narrative that homeownership is the answer to combating systems of oppression that hinder Black mobility and generational wealth.

February 13, 2025 | National Public Housing Museum (919 S Ada St, Chicago, IL 60607) | 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Prior to the conversation, visit the National Public Housing Museum’s exhibitions:

• Still Here: Linking Histories of Displacement uses art, archives, and public dialogue to explore and connect histories of displacement on the land where the National Public Housing Museum is located.
• “What Happened Next?” recreates a 1950s apartment and offers learning on how redlining, racial covenants, blockbusting, and other federal and local housing policies shaped the demographics of cities, as well as public housing.
• Demand the Impossible questions the so-called American dream of home ownership, why it’s a potent symbol of success in our society, and why it’s often lauded as the surest path to financial security, though millions of Americans find it increasingly out of reach.