The Freedom Center is excited to present the final Fifth Third community Day of 2022!

Bring your friends and family to the Freedom Center to enjoy free admission, moving exhibits and engaging programming all day.

*Free tickets can be reserved online HERE, but walkups are welcome.*

The Freedom Center is excited to present the final Fifth Third community Day of 2022!

Bring your friends and family to the Freedom Center to enjoy free admission, moving exhibits and engaging programming all day.

*Free tickets can be reserved online HERE, but walkups are welcome.*

Follow Rushan Abbas on her quest to find her sister, one of the millions of Uyghurs missing in their own land in one of the world’s ongoing genocides.

Abbas, Uyghur leader Abdulhakim Idris and film director and producer Jawad Mir for a discussion following the film.

The screening and discussion is presented in partnership with the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati and Ohioans in Solidarity with the Uyghur people.

*This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required*

Reserve your tickets here

Follow Rushan Abbas on her quest to find her sister, one of the millions of Uyghurs missing in their own land in one of the world’s ongoing genocides.

Abbas, Uyghur leader Abdulhakim Idris and film director and producer Jawad Mir for a discussion following the film.

The screening and discussion is presented in partnership with the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati and Ohioans in Solidarity with the Uyghur people.

*This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required*

Reserve your tickets here

Mon. January 17, 2022 | Tickets on sale Tue. December 14, 2021

This January the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will host its annual King Legacy Celebration! As was last year, 2022’s event will be hosted virtually—but don’t let that fool you. This year’s event will be filled with amazing speakers and performers, and much more!

There will also be activities throughout the day on MLK Day (1/17) at the Freedom Center, in addition to our permanent and temporary exhibits. So don’t forget to stop by!

Keep an eye out for more information on the King Legacy Celebration and related events.

Mon. January 17, 2022 | Tickets on sale Tue. December 14, 2021

This January the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will host its annual King Legacy Celebration! As was last year, 2022’s event will be hosted virtually—but don’t let that fool you. This year’s event will be filled with amazing speakers and performers, and much more!

There will also be activities throughout the day on MLK Day (1/17) at the Freedom Center, in addition to our permanent and temporary exhibits. So don’t forget to stop by!

Keep an eye out for more information on the King Legacy Celebration and related events.

WHAT: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, in partnership with The Ohio State University and Wright State University, is reexamining prominent – and at times controversial – educator, scholar and civil rights activist Angela Davis. A panel of scholars will discuss Davis’s legacy and will be moderated by Dr. Sharon Lynette Jones, professor in the English Language & Literatures Department at Wright State University and author of Conversations with Angela DavisReconsidering Angela Davis: Reflections on Engagement and Societal Transformations will take place virtually Tuesday, December 7 at 5 p.m.

Davis has held multiple teaching positions as prestigious universities, including UCLA, Rutgers University, Syracuse University and Vassar College, among others. She has been at the forefront of several social justice issues in her lifetime, including the second-wave feminist movement of the 1960s, the anti-war campaign during the Vietnam War, advocating for gay rights and, most prominently, abolishing the American prison system. She has also been an active member of the Communist Party USA, running as a vice presidential candidate for the party on two occasions. In 1970, she was imprisoned for over a year in connection to an armed takeover of a courtroom before she was finally acquitted of the charges.

Davis’s accolades intimate a complicated life that has made understanding her a nuanced dialogue. She was awarded the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize and has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. In 2020, she was listed as Time’s 1971 “Woman of the Year” and included in Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

The panelists will discuss Davis’s legacy and the complicated dynamics of protest during the virtual discussion December 7 at 5 p.m.

The virtual discussion is free but registration is required.

Panelists include:

  • Dr. Kimberly Nichele Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Dr. Kimberly Lamm, Duke University
  • Dr. Jo-Ann. Morgan, Western Illinois University
  • Dr. Robyn Spencer, Lehman College of the City University of New York

WHEN: Tuesday, December 7 at 5 p.m.

WHERE: Online via Zoom. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P5zxipzFTHS33lojIBXDRA

WHAT: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, in partnership with The Ohio State University and Wright State University, is reexamining prominent – and at times controversial – educator, scholar and civil rights activist Angela Davis. A panel of scholars will discuss Davis’s legacy and will be moderated by Dr. Sharon Lynette Jones, professor in the English Language & Literatures Department at Wright State University and author of Conversations with Angela DavisReconsidering Angela Davis: Reflections on Engagement and Societal Transformations will take place virtually Tuesday, December 7 at 5 p.m.

Davis has held multiple teaching positions as prestigious universities, including UCLA, Rutgers University, Syracuse University and Vassar College, among others. She has been at the forefront of several social justice issues in her lifetime, including the second-wave feminist movement of the 1960s, the anti-war campaign during the Vietnam War, advocating for gay rights and, most prominently, abolishing the American prison system. She has also been an active member of the Communist Party USA, running as a vice presidential candidate for the party on two occasions. In 1970, she was imprisoned for over a year in connection to an armed takeover of a courtroom before she was finally acquitted of the charges.

Davis’s accolades intimate a complicated life that has made understanding her a nuanced dialogue. She was awarded the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize and has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. In 2020, she was listed as Time’s 1971 “Woman of the Year” and included in Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

The panelists will discuss Davis’s legacy and the complicated dynamics of protest during the virtual discussion December 7 at 5 p.m.

The virtual discussion is free but registration is required.

Panelists include:

  • Dr. Kimberly Nichele Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Dr. Kimberly Lamm, Duke University
  • Dr. Jo-Ann. Morgan, Western Illinois University
  • Dr. Robyn Spencer, Lehman College of the City University of New York

WHEN: Tuesday, December 7 at 5 p.m.

WHERE: Online via Zoom. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P5zxipzFTHS33lojIBXDRA

Visual metaphors give voice to social justice issues in new exhibition at Freedom Center

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is turning to art in the fight for social justice. Luba Lukova: Designing Justice will feature a portfolio of social commentary prints and posters when it opens October 8.

Luba Lukova: Designing Justice addresses essential themes of humanity and injustices worldwide through images embedded with thought-provoking messages. Lukova’s artwork helps viewers develop empathy for social and cultural issues through the use of metaphors and bold, succinct symbols that communicates universal truths about desire, fear, creation, hope and man’s endless capacity for love and hate. Among the themes addressed are peace, censorship, immigration, ecology, hunger and corruption. By the time guests leave the exhibition they will have been reminded that social issues across the globe demand to be addressed – and changed – through the commitment of well-intentioned individuals. In all, Lukova’s images help provide inspiration for each of us to be a force for good in the world.

“The power of art is the power to transform. Luba Lukova’s artwork encourages viewers to look inward as they stand before her images, revealing as much about individuals as it does society,” said Woodrow Keown, Jr., president & COO of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. “Designing Justice is a powerful addition to our museum experience and adds another critical step in guests’ personal journey as they reflect on the world around them and who they are in it.”

Luba Lukova: Designing Justice opens October 8 in the Freedom Center’s Skirball Gallery. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children and free for Freedom Center Members. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit freedomcenter.org/designingjustice. The exhibition closes March 22, 2022.

Visual metaphors give voice to social justice issues in new exhibition at Freedom Center

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is turning to art in the fight for social justice. Luba Lukova: Designing Justice will feature a portfolio of social commentary prints and posters when it opens October 8.

Luba Lukova: Designing Justice addresses essential themes of humanity and injustices worldwide through images embedded with thought-provoking messages. Lukova’s artwork helps viewers develop empathy for social and cultural issues through the use of metaphors and bold, succinct symbols that communicates universal truths about desire, fear, creation, hope and man’s endless capacity for love and hate. Among the themes addressed are peace, censorship, immigration, ecology, hunger and corruption. By the time guests leave the exhibition they will have been reminded that social issues across the globe demand to be addressed – and changed – through the commitment of well-intentioned individuals. In all, Lukova’s images help provide inspiration for each of us to be a force for good in the world.

“The power of art is the power to transform. Luba Lukova’s artwork encourages viewers to look inward as they stand before her images, revealing as much about individuals as it does society,” said Woodrow Keown, Jr., president & COO of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. “Designing Justice is a powerful addition to our museum experience and adds another critical step in guests’ personal journey as they reflect on the world around them and who they are in it.”

Luba Lukova: Designing Justice opens October 8 in the Freedom Center’s Skirball Gallery. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children and free for Freedom Center Members. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit freedomcenter.org/designingjustice. The exhibition closes March 22, 2022.