Courage to Participate

On Saturday, January 17, we will honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of nonviolence as an active, courageous way of life. We will explore the Kingian principle that “Nonviolence is for courageous people.” — highlighting the bravery required to choose peace, confront injustice, and rebuild community.

As Institute for Nonviolence Chicago marks ten years of service, we celebrate the courage of those who have participated in transforming their lives and neighborhoods through peace.

SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS:

Featured guest speakers

• ERNEST CRIM III, Author  of “How Black History Can Save Your Life.”, Emmy-nominated producer and award-winning educator.

• TRYMAINE LEE, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist, filmmaker and author of "A Thousand Ways to Die."

Short film screening

“Choose Peace”

Celebrating ten years of Institute for Nonviolence Chicago

Interactive Service Experience

Letters of Courage

LUNCH PROVIDED.

PLEASE RSVP.

ERNEST CRIM III is an Emmy-nominated producer, public teacher, antiracist educator and hate crime victor, who uses (Black) historical narratives to empower and educate through a culturally equitable lens. Mr. Crim, a south side of Chicago native and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate, is a former high school history educator of 12 years, who now also advocates for social justice issues and teaches Black History to the world through social media with a platform that reaches roughly 4 million people each month (as of 2024). 

As such, he has created content for companies such as HBO, HULU, Disney, Paramount, and the History Channel. Additionally, he is the CEO of Crim’s Cultural Consulting LLC, an international speaker who has spoken at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Microsoft, Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp, and audiences in the U.K. and Canada, an author of two books and a passionate progressive education activist who has worked closely with organizations to advocate for educational and political equity, reparations, mental health awareness and food justice. Mr. Crim has been featured on, and collaborated with, CNN, HBO, The Washington Post, ABC, WGN, PBS, CBS, NBC & Newsweek and various other outlets.

TRYMAINE LEE is a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist, author, and MSNBC contributor. He is the host of the Into America podcast, where he explores the intersections of race, power, and politics.

For more than two decades, Trymaine has been at the forefront of America’s defining stories—covering natural disasters, racial justice uprisings, and the ongoing struggle for true democracy and equality. He is widely credited as the first national journalist to report on the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a story that helped ignite a nationwide movement. As a national correspondent at MSNBC, he led coverage of the killing of Michael Brown Jr. and the Ferguson uprising that followed, further cementing his role as a leading voice on race and justice in America.

A contributing writer to the acclaimed The 1619 Project, he is also a Webby Award winner for his podcast series on Reconstruction’s unfulfilled promises, a four-time Signal Award winner, and a recipient of the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Blood on Black Wall Street: The Legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre, his documentary on the lingering impacts of the massacre 100 years later.