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Start: 8:30 am
A Road Scholar Program by Sharon Z. Alter
First Ladies have fascinated Americans since the founding of the Republic. Yet, they have been anything but a homogenous group. Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
The Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) invites grant applicants to attend a free public Community Grant Application workshop. Any nonprofit organization or institution is eligible to apply to IHC for financial support of a public project in the humanities.
Start: 1:00 pm
The Meaning of Service (MoS) is a reading and discussion program for Americorps volunteers featuring discussions that use short philosophical and literary texts on the nature of justice, service, and related themes. Meaning of Service presents participants with the opportunity to examine, refine, and regenerate the beliefs underlying their work.
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
 We live between fences. We may hardly notice them, but they are dominant features in our lives and in our history. Built of hedge, concrete, wood and metal, the fence skirts our properties and is central to the American landscape. We use them to enclose our houses and neighborhoods.Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
 Voters turned out in record breaking numbers to deliver a landslide victory for the president-elect Barack Obama, who two years ago, announced his candidacy for the highest office in America. Obama has made history as the first African-American to be elected president of the United States and succeeds George W. Bush, who (accomplishing his own feat) leaves office with the worst approval ratings in recorded presidential history.
For most Americans the past 22 months have been both an exhausting and exhilarating entanglement of presidential politics. Talking points, accusations of slander and media madness set the stage for conversations on race, gender and the economy. And for the first time ever, a presidential candidate in the midst of his campaign delivered a speech on race in America. Cars in southern states with bumper stickers reading Rednecks for Obama challenged America's concept of race relations. And with dialogue occurring at incredible frequencies throughout the country and internationally, Obama's pursuit of the White House and ultimate win has been analyzed by everyone from conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh to rapper Jay Z, who channeled black political heroes of the past, saying: | ||
