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Elizabeth Todd-Breland
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Educator, Historian (US, Urban, Black Politics, Education, Policy, Chicago), Former CPS Board VP; Books: I Didn't Come Here to Lie (Haymarket, 2025); A Political Education (UNC Press, 2018); personal account; she/her
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One thing about Chicago, we’re gonna keep showing up & showing out! Lots of people in the streets today
Protest sign of a CTA train on fire—“Chicago melts ICE” Large protest sign: “stop trump [in red stop sign]. No Troops” small sign: No Troops Hands Off Chicago” with Chicago flags Chicago flag stars sticker “Free Chicago No Occupation”
September 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Chicagoland 6th-9th graders: Free Summer Freedom School Youth Institute aug 4-8; application due 7/2 uic.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Green flyer for Free Freedom School Youth Institute—August 4-8, 9am-3pm @ uic college of education. Black and white Picture of children with arms raised in semi-circle. Link to application https://uic.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7USxJ3fkSQV3Xpk
June 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Looking forward to talking about Karen Lewis's life & legacy with @seiuhcii.bsky.social this Wed. 6/18 @ 6pm! RSVP here: act.seiu.org/a/klewis-boo...
Flyer for talk by Elizabeth Todd-Breland with SEIU HCII, Wednesday June 18, 2025 229 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL top of flyer has light purple background with Juneteenth banner, title of book I Didn't Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education by Karen Lewis and Elizabeth Todd-Breland. bottom of flyer has yellow background with a photo of Karen Lewis and group photo of her with SEIU members, along with a picture of the cover of the book.
June 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Today CTJM & supporters marked 10 years since Chicago passed a historic reparations ordinance for survivors of police torture #ReparationsWon by celebrating decades of organizing by survivors, family members & community + ongoing work to build a permanent public memorial chicagotorture.org/donate-2/
4 panelists sitting on couches with a screen behind them two speakers standing, one at the lectern dressed in black and white one in front of a microphone wearing a bright blue blazer speaker at the lectern 5 speakers standing in a row
May 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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S/o to Barbara’s Bookstore in the Macy’s on State St for an awesome book signing! They made a “read like Karen Lewis” table w/ books that she mentions in I Didn’t Come Here To Lie! + have great selections of banned books, Black authors, AAPI heritage month spotlights, labor & Chicago history!
“Read like labor luminary Karen Lewis” list of books that Karen mentions in her memoir I didn’t come here to lie Table with books that Karen Lewis mentions in her memoir including: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Shirley Chisolm’s Unbought and Unbossed, Dune, The World According to Garp, image of cover of the School’s Chicago’s Students Deserve Elizabeth Todd-Breland seated holding book at book signing table
May 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Let’s go Chicago!! #MayDay2025 #MayDayStrong
Ivón & me standing with our purple SEIU signs “immigrants are essential” “Los Inmigrantes son esenciales” Large crowd of people marching down the street holding signs “stop abducting us citizens” “stop deportations defend immigrants” Large crowd marching down the street
May 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Chicago! Tomorrow--Wed. 4/30, 7pm at Call&Response Books. Hear @oiyanpoon.bsky.social talk about her fantastic book: Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family!
Flyer for book talk with splashes of red, yellow, black and brown, orange cover of book and headshots of OiYan Poon & Elizabeth Todd-Breland. "Asian American is Not a Color. Paperback Book Launch & Signing with OiYan Poon in conversation with Elizabeth Todd-Breland. Wednesday April 30th at 7pm at Call & Response Books, 1390 E Hyde Park BLVD. Register at www.callandresponsechi.com/events
April 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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TODAY!!
Blue flyer Rally at the Capitol in Denver! Calling all Educators, Students, and Researchers! Our rights to think, question, teach, study, and learn are under attack! Take a stand to protect k-12 public education and higher education! Friday April 25th, 10am-11am instagram updates @educatorsolidarity
April 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Exciting to see I Didn't Come Here to Lie out & available at bookstores! Come to @barbarasbookstore.bsky.social (Macy's location, 111 North State Street, Chicago), Sat. 5/3 @ 1pm to talk about Karen Lewis's incredible life & legacy & the lessons that she still has for us today! @haymarketbooks.org
round wooden table with multiple copies of book, I Didn't Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education, by Karen Lewis and Elizabeth Todd-Breland. Poster above advertising book signing event at Barbara's Books on State St Saturday May 3rd @ 1pm with headshot of Elizabeth Todd-Breland and cover image of the book. books on shelves in the background, including a poster that says "Read Banned Books"
April 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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TODAY!! Chicago, come join us at UIC! #DayofActionForHigherED #HigherEd
The People’s University flyer for National day of action for higher education on 4/17. 12pm rally, 1pm resource fair on University Hall Lawn; 3:30 teach-in at UIC Forum. Cream colored flyer with graphic of large hand and fingers in a peace sign Flyer for national day of action Teach In at UIC 3:30-5:30 @ the UIC Forum 725 w Roosevelt Road. Includes image of a graduation cap with the date on the middle and lists speakers and the many sponsoring units on campus
April 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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So moved by the UIC ceremony for Prof. Beth E. Richie & Prof. Bernadette Sánchez! Beth stressed our responsibility to resist assaults on our values & stand up for our students, communities & the mission of our minority-serving public Univ. Grateful to learn from such a kind&generous mentor & person!
Prof. Beth E. Richie in her regalia and new medal, standing next to a brown lectern with a red UIC circle logo in the middle Interior of the program booklet with headshot images and longer bios of Prof. Sánchez and Prof. Richie Prof. Sánchez, Prof. Michael Thomas, Dean Chval, and Prof. Richie sitting in chairs on stage with a dark blue backdrop behind them Cover of the program booklet. red at the top with "The Investiture of Beth E. Richie and Bernadette Sánchez, April 15, 2025, Presidential Humanities and Social Sciences Chairs." Photo below of University Hall on the left wit h the skyline and Sears tower in the background on the right
April 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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This Thursday 4/17 National Day of Action at UIC!
Flyer for national day of action Teach In at UIC 3:30-5:30 @ the UIC Forum 725 w Roosevelt Road. Includes image of a graduation cap with the date on the middle and lists speakers and the many sponsoring units on campus The People’s University flyer for National day of action for higher education on 4/17. 12pm rally, 1pm resource fair on University Hall Lawn; 3:30 teach-in at UIC Forum. Cream colored flyer with graphic of large hand and fingers in a peace sign
April 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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This fall my UIC students worked w/ some of the NPHM Beauty Turner oral history collection & walked the locations of the stories on this big map. Can’t wait to take students inside the actual museum next year! S/o to the students’ amazing final project nearwestrenewalproject.digital.uic.edu 5/
Uic urban renewal and the archive class huddled around a large map on a table Uic urban renewal and the archive class + Liú from NPHM standing behind large neighborhood map with description pins for the oral history locations
April 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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So many more exhibits and artifacts that I want to come back and take time with at the National Public Housing Museum 4/
Timeline for 25 years since the CHA Plan for transformation An original radiator from the ABLA homes WPA era looking posters advertising low rent and public housing Wall-size image of a boarded up house from Tonika Johnson Inequity for Sale exhibit
April 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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The REC room at the NPHM is Co-curated by DJ Spinderella and includes music created by public housing residents from across the country & right here in Chicago—I see you Jerry Butler! 3/
Wall of records grouped by city and region in a long room Chicago, il tab of records, with album cover by Jerry Butler, Souled Out DJ Spindarella speaking at the podium
April 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Ms. Mary Baldwin set the tone in such a moving way 2/
April 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Awesome opening weekend for the new National Public Housing Museum—inside the last standing building of the Jane Addams homes & including new housing units—the museum demands that HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT! Congrats to the m CHA residents, NPHM staff & board who dreamed and worked for this! 🧵 1/
Colorful Cover of the ribbon cutting ceremony & grand opening program Lisa Yun Lee speaking at the podium Commissioner Francine Washington speaking at the podium Jesse White Tumblers dressed in red—2 tumblers diving through the arms of three tumblers stacked in a pyramid with the city skyline in the background
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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What a treat listening to Natalie at the DuSable Museum this afternoon talking about her new podcast! Check out the first episode this Tuesday!
Natalie Moore sitting on stage with her interlocutor talking about her new podcast at the DuSable Museum. Large projection behind her with her head shot and the icon for the podcast—an older TV with “Making: Stories with No End” on the screen
April 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Chicago showed out today! Glad to be out there with my fellow historians— #handsoff public education, higher ed & research
Blue protest sign “Hands off! Our public postal service APWU” Picture of crowd gathered in Daley plaza near the Picasso statue Light blue banner with black letters “Billionaires are stealing from us”
April 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Book launch loading! April 2nd @ 1901 W Honorary Karen Lewis CTU Way (aka Carrol Ave). Doors open 4:30pm. Register here: www.ctulocal1.org/posts/event/...
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Gray, black, and red Flyer for I Didn’t Come Here To Lie book panel launch event: April 2 @ 4:30pm @ 1901 W Carrol Ave. Includes image of the cover of the book and registration QR code
March 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I am forever honored that Karen Lewis entrusted me to co-author her memoir--I Didn’t Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education @haymarketbooks.org Karen was a powerful labor leader, formidable fighter & staunch defender of students, teachers & public education 1/ www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2444-i...
Alt text Cover of "I Didn't Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education," by Karen Lewis & Elizabeth Todd-Breland; Foreword by Angela Y. Davis, Afterword by Stacy Davis Gates. Image on cover of of Karen Lewis with her hands raised wearing a red CTU shirt. Title in Bold Black writing above image--author info. below image Alt text Back cover of Karen Lewis memoir, I Didn't Come Here to Lie, with blurbs by Eve L. Ewing, Bettina L. Love, Barbara Ransby, ad Jesse Hagopian
March 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM