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Panama-born, Chicago-based drummer Daniel Villarreal is involved with myriad musical projects. He coleads the groups Dos Santos, Valebol, the Los Sundowns, and Ida y Vuelta; he’s collaborated extensively with grab-bag marching band Mucca Pazza, sibling duo Wild Belle, and soulful psych-pop singer Rudy De Anda; and he’s a familiar face on Pilsen’s DJ circuit. At the intersection of all those endeavors is his debut album, Panamá 77, released last May on International Anthem. Working with plenty of colleagues from his various projects, Villarreal cocomposed 11 lush, hypnotically motivic instrumental tracks, many of which undulate with psychedelic organs and synths.

Villarreal’s affinity for the organ runs deep: his father was an organist in a touring conjunto band, and it was the first instrument Villarreal learned as a boy. (“Patria,” the only cover tune on the album, was written by Panamanian organist Avelino Muñoz, whose family taught Villarreal’s father.) But Villarreal dedicated Panamá 77 to his late grandmother Ofelia De León, who helped raise him while his parents worked in nearby Panama City. She’s the namesake of the album’s second song, which is buoyed by surfy solos from guitarist Nathan Karagianis (a Dos Santos colleague) and an organ groove by Cole DeGenova (who’s also collaborated with a long list of artists, including Chance the Rapper, Lupe Fiasco, and Meshell Ndegeocello).

For this show, Villarreal will be joined by Danjuma Gaskin on congas and the same musicians who recorded “Ofelia” and “Patria”: DeGenova on keys, Karagianis on guitar, and Gordon Walters on bass. As they did at the Panamá 77 release show at Thalia Hall last July, the quintet will play the record in its entirety with help from a few surprise guests.

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At a forum on Police District Council races hosted on January 22 by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) at CTU headquarters, dozens of candidates stood in lines that wrapped around a dais at the front of Jacqueline Vaughn Hall, waiting their turn to explain why they’re running. 

Nearly all of them are seeking office for the first time in their lives, but they spoke clearly and with conviction about the trauma they’ve experienced at the hands of police.

Many have family members who were brutalized or killed: Cynthia McFadden’s father escaped white supremacist terror in the South by coming to Chicago during the Great Migration, only to be shot and killed by police at 47th and King Drive on the day he arrived. Coston Plummer’s older brother was tortured for 39 hours and forced to falsely confess to murder by officers under notorious commander Jon Burge when he was just 15 years old, and remains in prison today. When Craig Carrington’s sister was brutalized and arrested for protecting her children from police in 2004, he promised her that if he ever could, he would do something about it.

They talked about running for Police District Council in order to heal—not just themselves and their families, but entire communities whose relationships with public safety have long been fractured.

“The amazing thing about these candidates who are running for district council is that they are overwhelmingly Black and Brown, overwhelmingly working class, and there’s also a lot of poor people in the ranks,” Frank Chapman, a CAARPR field organizer and a leader of the movement that ushered in the Police District Councils, told the crowd. “This is who is running. So just on the basis of that, this election on February 28 will be the most democratic election that this city has ever seen.” 

Of the 112 candidates running in the newly-created Police District Council races, 63 used resources provided by CAARPR to file election paperwork. These 63 candidates support police accountability: overwhelmingly, they want Chicago Police Department funding to be redirected to violence prevention and transformative justice programs, for care workers to accompany police to mental health crises, and for their churches, block clubs, and community organizations to be included in public safety. Despite what they have personally endured at the hands of police, only a few want to totally defund or abolish CPD.

They described knocking on countless doors in Chicago’s coldest months to discuss that opportunity with voters. Meridth Hammer, a candidate in the Fourth District, was hoarse from talking about public safety with voters day in and day out. They are ordinary people whose resilience carries them as they fight for a seat at the table.

Ordinary people have always been at the center of this struggle. The movement for community control of the police, or CCOP, was led by revolutionaries, but it has always been carried onward by neighborhood people. 

In Chicago, CCOP was first conceived by the Black Panther Party and Chairman Fred Hampton in the 1960s. A charismatic visionary, Chairman Fred built a Rainbow Coalition of Black, Brown, and working-class white residents who, fed up with police violence, gentrification, and not-so-benign neglect of their communities, became revolutionaries. 

Neutralizing revolutionary coalitions was at the top of the FBI’s list of COINTELPRO goals, and the Cook County State’s Attorney Office and Chicago Police Department conspired to assassinate Hampton on December 4, 1969. His murder only spurred the Panthers and Rainbow Coalition to redouble their efforts for control of police. Within four years, they built a citywide campaign for elected civilian police boards in every police district. Ultimately, Mayor Richard J. Daley’s political machine repelled the effort. The movement regrouped and found other inroads to power as revolutionaries ran for office. 

Over the ensuing decades, elected officials made several attempts to establish oversight of the police. Following a series of police brutality incidents, U.S. representative Ralph Metcalfe (IL-1) convened a Congressional blue-ribbon panel in 1972 that led to the creation of the Office of Professional Standards (OPS). Comprised of civilian members of CPD, it became notorious for stifling misconduct investigations. After a brutality incident was caught on camera in 2007, the City Council voted (with Mayor Richard M. Daley’s approval) to replace OPS with the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA). Moving oversight out of the department did little to increase accountability. Following the CPD murder of Laquan McDonald, the City Council (with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s blessing) replaced IPRA with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which investigates misconduct and makes recommendations to the Police Board, in 2016.   

Through it all, Chicago police continued killing and brutalizing people. The victims’ families never stopped fighting for justice. Many have been doing so for decades, often on their own, wandering the wilderness of a city that took police harassment, torture, and murder of its residents for granted. The best most could hope for was a cash settlement. The price of police violence was shunted onto Chicago’s residents as the City’s payouts for police misconduct ballooned to more than $50 million a year.

Simeon Henderson, a candidate for the Tenth Police District Council, speaks at a candidate forum, Credit: Jim Daley

In 2012, one police killing, of Rekia Boyd by off-duty CPD officer Dante Servin, became a flashpoint around which the scattered survivors of police violence coalesced. The Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability (GAPA) and the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) spent a decade painstakingly building a movement rooted in the communities. In 2020, the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police set off rebellions around the country. Amid the uprisings, GAPA and CAARPR formed a coalition and, with their allies in City Council, passed the Empowering Communities for Public Safety (ECPS) ordinance in 2021 despite Mayor Lightfoot’s objections.

The district councils that the ECPS ordinance created will not have the kind of direct oversight powers the Panthers initially sought for district-level boards in the CCOP movement, like hiring and firing police and setting department policy. However, they will have the right to engage with district commanders and recommend restorative justice and other alternative approaches to safety. Among other duties, they’re also charged with helping community members request investigative information from COPA and CPD. The councils’ effectiveness at serving and engaging with the community will most likely vary by district. 

Each of the 22 three-member councils will send one representative to meetings where they will nominate the citywide Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA). It is in that commission that ECPS achieves civilian power—in a layered, not direct, manner—over the degree to which police are held accountable. The CCPSA can hire and fire the chief administrator of COPA. It can also hold hearings about the police superintendent and take a vote of no confidence that triggers City Council hearings and a vote to retain or fire the superintendent. 

The hope of the ECPS organizers is that the CCPSA will exercise these powers should COPA or the superintendent fail to hold officers who brutalize or kill accountable. 

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her allies initially resisted the proposals brought forth by organizers, and it took grueling negotiations between organizers and the mayor’s office before the City Council passed the ECPS ordinance. Then, the mayor and her allies slow-walked its implementation. Lightfoot’s floor leader, Alderperson Michelle Harris, delayed the opening of applications for the interim CCPSA for months. And although the ECPS ordinance required the mayor to appoint members to the interim CCPSA by January 2022, she waited until August to do so. At that point, it was too late for the CCPSA to review the mayor’s police department budget and recommend changes to the City Council, one of their key duties mandated by the ordinance. 

The police are aware of the ramifications of reform. Just as the machine poured its efforts into thwarting the CCOP ordinance 50 years ago, the Fraternal Order of Police and its allies have organized to undermine ECPS. 

The FOP has spent at least $25,000 to get their people on the ballot and try to knock progressive candidates off, and they gave the green light to one of their election attorneys, Perry Abbasi, to run in the 25th District. In northwest side districts like the 16th and southwest-side districts like the 22nd, where neighborhoods like Galewood and Mount Greenwood are home to many police, nearly everyone running has ties to the FOP. 

In the Fifth District, Thomas McMahon, a former police lieutenant who has 21 misconduct allegations, is running. He hired his own attorney to challenge the ballot petitions of Robert McKay, a candidate in the same district who helped usher in reform to the CFD in the 1990s; the reformer is now running as a write-in candidate. Lee Bielecki, a retired sergeant who has 26 allegations of misconduct, is running in the 22nd District. In the 12th, Juan Lopez, a former state police trooper who was fired and charged with seven felonies for firing six shots into his ex-girlfriend’s home after seeing her with another man, is running. Lopez was acquitted of the felonies, for which he was facing 26 years in prison, and convicted of a misdemeanor. 

But the block club members, teachers, and pastors who stood at the microphones at CTU headquarters know the stakes of this race better than anyone. They want the opportunity to ensure that the radical proposition they fought for and won—a chance for the community to have a say in creating public safety and holding police accountable—is borne out. According to Chapman, that opportunity is revolutionary.

“These people are running out of dedication to a cause,” Chapman said. “And their dedication is that it’s time, in this city, to hold the police accountable for the crimes that they commit against that community.” For these candidates, it is time indeed. 

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At a forum on Police District Council races hosted on January 22 by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) at CTU headquarters, dozens of candidates stood in lines that wrapped around a dais at the front of Jacqueline Vaughn Hall, waiting their turn to explain why they’re running. 

Nearly all of them are seeking office for the first time in their lives, but they spoke clearly and with conviction about the trauma they’ve experienced at the hands of police.

Many have family members who were brutalized or killed: Cynthia McFadden’s father escaped white supremacist terror in the South by coming to Chicago during the Great Migration, only to be shot and killed by police at 47th and King Drive on the day he arrived. Coston Plummer’s older brother was tortured for 39 hours and forced to falsely confess to murder by officers under notorious commander Jon Burge when he was just 15 years old, and remains in prison today. When Craig Carrington’s sister was brutalized and arrested for protecting her children from police in 2004, he promised her that if he ever could, he would do something about it.

They talked about running for Police District Council in order to heal—not just themselves and their families, but entire communities whose relationships with public safety have long been fractured.

“The amazing thing about these candidates who are running for district council is that they are overwhelmingly Black and Brown, overwhelmingly working class, and there’s also a lot of poor people in the ranks,” Frank Chapman, a CAARPR field organizer and a leader of the movement that ushered in the Police District Councils, told the crowd. “This is who is running. So just on the basis of that, this election on February 28 will be the most democratic election that this city has ever seen.” 

Of the 112 candidates running in the newly-created Police District Council races, 63 used resources provided by CAARPR to file election paperwork. These 63 candidates support police accountability: overwhelmingly, they want Chicago Police Department funding to be redirected to violence prevention and transformative justice programs, for care workers to accompany police to mental health crises, and for their churches, block clubs, and community organizations to be included in public safety. Despite what they have personally endured at the hands of police, only a few want to totally defund or abolish CPD.

They described knocking on countless doors in Chicago’s coldest months to discuss that opportunity with voters. Meridth Hammer, a candidate in the Fourth District, was hoarse from talking about public safety with voters day in and day out. They are ordinary people whose resilience carries them as they fight for a seat at the table.

Ordinary people have always been at the center of this struggle. The movement for community control of the police, or CCOP, was led by revolutionaries, but it has always been carried onward by neighborhood people. 

In Chicago, CCOP was first conceived by the Black Panther Party and Chairman Fred Hampton in the 1960s. A charismatic visionary, Chairman Fred built a Rainbow Coalition of Black, Brown, and working-class white residents who, fed up with police violence, gentrification, and not-so-benign neglect of their communities, became revolutionaries. 

Neutralizing revolutionary coalitions was at the top of the FBI’s list of COINTELPRO goals, and the Cook County State’s Attorney Office and Chicago Police Department conspired to assassinate Hampton on December 4, 1969. His murder only spurred the Panthers and Rainbow Coalition to redouble their efforts for control of police. Within four years, they built a citywide campaign for elected civilian police boards in every police district. Ultimately, Mayor Richard J. Daley’s political machine repelled the effort. The movement regrouped and found other inroads to power as revolutionaries ran for office. 

Over the ensuing decades, elected officials made several attempts to establish oversight of the police. Following a series of police brutality incidents, U.S. representative Ralph Metcalfe (IL-1) convened a Congressional blue-ribbon panel in 1972 that led to the creation of the Office of Professional Standards (OPS). Comprised of civilian members of CPD, it became notorious for stifling misconduct investigations. After a brutality incident was caught on camera in 2007, the City Council voted (with Mayor Richard M. Daley’s approval) to replace OPS with the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA). Moving oversight out of the department did little to increase accountability. Following the CPD murder of Laquan McDonald, the City Council (with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s blessing) replaced IPRA with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which investigates misconduct and makes recommendations to the Police Board, in 2016.   

Through it all, Chicago police continued killing and brutalizing people. The victims’ families never stopped fighting for justice. Many have been doing so for decades, often on their own, wandering the wilderness of a city that took police harassment, torture, and murder of its residents for granted. The best most could hope for was a cash settlement. The price of police violence was shunted onto Chicago’s residents as the City’s payouts for police misconduct ballooned to more than $50 million a year.

Simeon Henderson, a candidate for the Tenth Police District Council, speaks at a candidate forum, Credit: Jim Daley

In 2012, one police killing, of Rekia Boyd by off-duty CPD officer Dante Servin, became a flashpoint around which the scattered survivors of police violence coalesced. The Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability (GAPA) and the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) spent a decade painstakingly building a movement rooted in the communities. In 2020, the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police set off rebellions around the country. Amid the uprisings, GAPA and CAARPR formed a coalition and, with their allies in City Council, passed the Empowering Communities for Public Safety (ECPS) ordinance in 2021 despite Mayor Lightfoot’s objections.

The district councils that the ECPS ordinance created will not have the kind of direct oversight powers the Panthers initially sought for district-level boards in the CCOP movement, like hiring and firing police and setting department policy. However, they will have the right to engage with district commanders and recommend restorative justice and other alternative approaches to safety. Among other duties, they’re also charged with helping community members request investigative information from COPA and CPD. The councils’ effectiveness at serving and engaging with the community will most likely vary by district. 

Each of the 22 three-member councils will send one representative to meetings where they will nominate the citywide Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA). It is in that commission that ECPS achieves civilian power—in a layered, not direct, manner—over the degree to which police are held accountable. The CCPSA can hire and fire the chief administrator of COPA. It can also hold hearings about the police superintendent and take a vote of no confidence that triggers City Council hearings and a vote to retain or fire the superintendent. 

The hope of the ECPS organizers is that the CCPSA will exercise these powers should COPA or the superintendent fail to hold officers who brutalize or kill accountable. 

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her allies initially resisted the proposals brought forth by organizers, and it took grueling negotiations between organizers and the mayor’s office before the City Council passed the ECPS ordinance. Then, the mayor and her allies slow-walked its implementation. Lightfoot’s floor leader, Alderperson Michelle Harris, delayed the opening of applications for the interim CCPSA for months. And although the ECPS ordinance required the mayor to appoint members to the interim CCPSA by January 2022, she waited until August to do so. At that point, it was too late for the CCPSA to review the mayor’s police department budget and recommend changes to the City Council, one of their key duties mandated by the ordinance. 

The police are aware of the ramifications of reform. Just as the machine poured its efforts into thwarting the CCOP ordinance 50 years ago, the Fraternal Order of Police and its allies have organized to undermine ECPS. 

The FOP has spent at least $25,000 to get their people on the ballot and try to knock progressive candidates off, and they gave the green light to one of their election attorneys, Perry Abbasi, to run in the 25th District. In northwest side districts like the 16th and southwest-side districts like the 22nd, where neighborhoods like Galewood and Mount Greenwood are home to many police, nearly everyone running has ties to the FOP. 

In the Fifth District, Thomas McMahon, a former police lieutenant who has 21 misconduct allegations, is running. He hired his own attorney to challenge the ballot petitions of Robert McKay, a candidate in the same district who helped usher in reform to the CFD in the 1990s; the reformer is now running as a write-in candidate. Lee Bielecki, a retired sergeant who has 26 allegations of misconduct, is running in the 22nd District. In the 12th, Juan Lopez, a former state police trooper who was fired and charged with seven felonies for firing six shots into his ex-girlfriend’s home after seeing her with another man, is running. Lopez was acquitted of the felonies, for which he was facing 26 years in prison, and convicted of a misdemeanor. 

But the block club members, teachers, and pastors who stood at the microphones at CTU headquarters know the stakes of this race better than anyone. They want the opportunity to ensure that the radical proposition they fought for and won—a chance for the community to have a say in creating public safety and holding police accountable—is borne out. According to Chapman, that opportunity is revolutionary.

“These people are running out of dedication to a cause,” Chapman said. “And their dedication is that it’s time, in this city, to hold the police accountable for the crimes that they commit against that community.” For these candidates, it is time indeed. 

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The first ever Black women’s film festival in 1976 was a celebration of culture and art with live performances and lectures on change. It showed new work by Black women filmmakers while also showcasing essential discussions about the art’s future.

The group of Black women artists and activists was composed of filmmaker Monica Freeman, poet Patricia Spears Jones, writer Margo Jefferson, artist Faith Ringgold, and Ringgold’s daughter, author Michele Wallace.

Now that festival, the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts, is back as a film series and symposium that pays tribute to the original event. The programming is in conjunction with a University of Chicago course titled “Creating a Different Image: Black Women’s Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s,” taught by professor Allyson Nadia Field, and is part of the department of cinema and media studies “Open Classroom” initiative.

“In the past, classes that are ‘open classroom’ courses have one or two screenings that we invite the public into, and the students are involved in that,” Field says. “It just means that they’re on the public program . . . and it’s a way of kind of inviting the audience into our classes.”

But this time, Field’s classroom is even more open. All nine screenings, which occur through March 2, are free to the public, allowing the festival to pay homage to Black women in film while extending the colearning experience outside of the boundaries of a traditional classroom.

“This is unprecedented; this is the first time we’re doing the entire course as public engagement,” Field says. “And what’s neat about that is a lot of the material on the program is rarely screened. Some of it we had to make access copies for, [or] it was sourced from various archives, and so it’s an opportunity for the public to see material that’s not widely screened.”

One of those rarely-screened films is Pearl Bowser’s The Guest.

“It’s part of the Pearl Bowser collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture,” Field says. “And Pearl Bowser is best known as a film curator, collector, and archivist. She also made documentary films, and she’s a historian, so she’s partly responsible for the first wave of scholarship on Oscar Micheaux and early Black filmmaking.”

Unlike Bowser’s historical works, The Guest is a five-minute fiction horror that screened during the series’s first week, showing the breadth of her ability.

“What we wanted to emphasize with the programming is the real range of work and the impact and power of what these women were trying to do in telling Black women’s stories,” Field says.

In addition to Field, the 2023 festival is co-organized by Monica Freeman, who co-organized the 1976 festival; Yvonne Welbon, CEO of the nonprofit Sisters in Cinema; Michael W. Phillips Jr., founder and director of South Side Projections; and University of Iowa professor Hayley O’Malley.

O’Malley, who was researching the original festival, found a program from 1976 in special collections at Northwestern University. As she started to look for organizers and participants from that time, she connected with other co-organizers, and together they created the idea for a way to honor that festival with new programming.

“The process of putting together a 2023 festival has been a highly collective and collaborative endeavor,” she says.

Along with weekly film screenings, the festival culminates with a two-day symposium on March 3-4, where Michele Wallace—another co-organizer of the original festival—will give the keynote address. O’Malley says she hopes attendees can see just how expansive the history of Black feminist media really is.

“There’s a much longer history of Black feminist media,” she says. “And so hopefully, by bringing together filmmakers, writers, curators, programmers for this gathering, for the symposium in 2023, we can celebrate that history and also start thinking not only about what Black women’s filmmaking was in the past and what it is now but what it can be in the future.”

The Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts 2023 and “Creating a Different Image: Black Women’s Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s”Through 3/4, free, voices.uchicago.edu/sojourner

All events are held on the University of Chicago campus, and the university has also created additional community events surrounding the film screenings. On February 9 and 16, for example, the university’s Arts + Public Life and Logan Center Community Engagement teams will host happy hours with drinks and appetizers before the film screenings. Sabrina Craig, assistant director of external engagement at UChicago Arts, says these events are meant to encourage people outside of the university to participate. Attendees are then shuttled to screenings.

“Our goal was to create a friendly, low-key ‘field trip’ experience for people who don’t regularly attend university events but who might enjoy going with a group,” she explains.

Each week, the screenings have a theme, such as “A Sense of Place,” “Adaptation and Beyond,” “Family Stories,” and “Interior Lives”—themes that resonate with the human experience.

“I think that this just is really about sharing this work and making it clear to audiences that there’s something here for everyone to appreciate and to understand,” Field says.

Co-organizer Yvonne Welbon explains how special the opportunity is to pay homage to women like filmmaker Madeline Anderson, who was the recipient of a Woman of the Year Award at the original festival in 1976. She believes people will be inspired by what they see.

“She was definitely one of the early folks out there making films in the 50s,” she says. “She really decided, instead of writing a book, to make a film about her life. That’s inspiring. It’s never too late. You can always, always, always work. So we’re going to be seeing a lot of older women who are [still working in film]. I don’t think many people would think about a 95-year-old Black woman making the movie, but that she is.”

And as a filmmaker herself, Welbon knows that inspiration can be for creatives in film, too.

“I know we showed my film [on January 12], The Cinematic Jazz with Julie Dash, and I realized I hadn’t seen it in decades because it’s from the 90s,” she says. “Some of us haven’t even seen our own work in a long time. . . . It’s inspiring for us, not just for audiences but for the filmmakers, too.”

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The first ever Black women’s film festival in 1976 was a celebration of culture and art with live performances and lectures on change. It showed new work by Black women filmmakers while also showcasing essential discussions about the art’s future.

The group of Black women artists and activists was composed of filmmaker Monica Freeman, poet Patricia Spears Jones, writer Margo Jefferson, artist Faith Ringgold, and Ringgold’s daughter, author Michele Wallace.

Now that festival, the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts, is back as a film series and symposium that pays tribute to the original event. The programming is in conjunction with a University of Chicago course titled “Creating a Different Image: Black Women’s Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s,” taught by professor Allyson Nadia Field, and is part of the department of cinema and media studies “Open Classroom” initiative.

“In the past, classes that are ‘open classroom’ courses have one or two screenings that we invite the public into, and the students are involved in that,” Field says. “It just means that they’re on the public program . . . and it’s a way of kind of inviting the audience into our classes.”

But this time, Field’s classroom is even more open. All nine screenings, which occur through March 2, are free to the public, allowing the festival to pay homage to Black women in film while extending the colearning experience outside of the boundaries of a traditional classroom.

“This is unprecedented; this is the first time we’re doing the entire course as public engagement,” Field says. “And what’s neat about that is a lot of the material on the program is rarely screened. Some of it we had to make access copies for, [or] it was sourced from various archives, and so it’s an opportunity for the public to see material that’s not widely screened.”

One of those rarely-screened films is Pearl Bowser’s The Guest.

“It’s part of the Pearl Bowser collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture,” Field says. “And Pearl Bowser is best known as a film curator, collector, and archivist. She also made documentary films, and she’s a historian, so she’s partly responsible for the first wave of scholarship on Oscar Micheaux and early Black filmmaking.”

Unlike Bowser’s historical works, The Guest is a five-minute fiction horror that screened during the series’s first week, showing the breadth of her ability.

“What we wanted to emphasize with the programming is the real range of work and the impact and power of what these women were trying to do in telling Black women’s stories,” Field says.

In addition to Field, the 2023 festival is co-organized by Monica Freeman, who co-organized the 1976 festival; Yvonne Welbon, CEO of the nonprofit Sisters in Cinema; Michael W. Phillips Jr., founder and director of South Side Projections; and University of Iowa professor Hayley O’Malley.

O’Malley, who was researching the original festival, found a program from 1976 in special collections at Northwestern University. As she started to look for organizers and participants from that time, she connected with other co-organizers, and together they created the idea for a way to honor that festival with new programming.

“The process of putting together a 2023 festival has been a highly collective and collaborative endeavor,” she says.

Along with weekly film screenings, the festival culminates with a two-day symposium on March 3-4, where Michele Wallace—another co-organizer of the original festival—will give the keynote address. O’Malley says she hopes attendees can see just how expansive the history of Black feminist media really is.

“There’s a much longer history of Black feminist media,” she says. “And so hopefully, by bringing together filmmakers, writers, curators, programmers for this gathering, for the symposium in 2023, we can celebrate that history and also start thinking not only about what Black women’s filmmaking was in the past and what it is now but what it can be in the future.”

The Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts 2023 and “Creating a Different Image: Black Women’s Filmmaking of the 1970s-90s”Through 3/4, free, voices.uchicago.edu/sojourner

All events are held on the University of Chicago campus, and the university has also created additional community events surrounding the film screenings. On February 9 and 16, for example, the university’s Arts + Public Life and Logan Center Community Engagement teams will host happy hours with drinks and appetizers before the film screenings. Sabrina Craig, assistant director of external engagement at UChicago Arts, says these events are meant to encourage people outside of the university to participate. Attendees are then shuttled to screenings.

“Our goal was to create a friendly, low-key ‘field trip’ experience for people who don’t regularly attend university events but who might enjoy going with a group,” she explains.

Each week, the screenings have a theme, such as “A Sense of Place,” “Adaptation and Beyond,” “Family Stories,” and “Interior Lives”—themes that resonate with the human experience.

“I think that this just is really about sharing this work and making it clear to audiences that there’s something here for everyone to appreciate and to understand,” Field says.

Co-organizer Yvonne Welbon explains how special the opportunity is to pay homage to women like filmmaker Madeline Anderson, who was the recipient of a Woman of the Year Award at the original festival in 1976. She believes people will be inspired by what they see.

“She was definitely one of the early folks out there making films in the 50s,” she says. “She really decided, instead of writing a book, to make a film about her life. That’s inspiring. It’s never too late. You can always, always, always work. So we’re going to be seeing a lot of older women who are [still working in film]. I don’t think many people would think about a 95-year-old Black woman making the movie, but that she is.”

And as a filmmaker herself, Welbon knows that inspiration can be for creatives in film, too.

“I know we showed my film [on January 12], The Cinematic Jazz with Julie Dash, and I realized I hadn’t seen it in decades because it’s from the 90s,” she says. “Some of us haven’t even seen our own work in a long time. . . . It’s inspiring for us, not just for audiences but for the filmmakers, too.”

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Solitary confinement has long been the punishment of choice for prisoners who draw the ire of prison officials. Its roots are at Cherry Hill, the world’s first penitentiary, built in Pennsylvania in 1829. It was founded by Quakers who believed that locking a prisoner away for months or years would reform them. Solitary confinement is the seminal philosophy of the criminal justice system in America.

After touring American prisons in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that solitary “devours the victim incessantly and unmercifully; it does not reform, it kills.” 

In 1890, the Supreme Court found in the case In re Medley that many prisoners “fell, after even a short confinement, into a semi-fatuous condition, from which it was next to impossible to arouse them, and others became violently insane.” More than a century later, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote, “Years on end of near-total isolation exact a terrible price . . . common side effects of solitary confinement include anxiety, panic, withdrawal, hallucinations, self-mutilation, and suicidal thoughts and actions.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted in 2018 that between 80,000 to 100,000 prisoners were held in some form of solitary confinement, the terms of which can range from a few days to decades.

In 2011, the United Nations declared solitary confinement to be torture. In 2014, the Committee Against Torture (which the U.S. is a member of) expressed concerns about America’s use of solitary confinement and recommended the U.S. limit the use of solitary confinement to “a measure of last resort and for as short a time as possible.” Other organizations followed suit, including the World Health Organization, the Association of Correctional Administrators, the American Bar Association, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

But in practice, solitary is not a measure of last resort, nor is it solely used in response to violent or predatory actions by prisoners. Jailhouse lawyers and politically active or vocal prisoners are frequently targeted by staff. The retaliation often manifests in fabricated disciplinary charges and months or years of solitary confinement.

Prison policymakers claim not to use solitary confinement anymore, disguising it behind a plethora of euphemistic terms: administrative detention, close management unit, control unit, disciplinary segregation unit, intensive management unit, involuntary protective custody, punitive segregation, restricted housing unit, security housing unit, special management unit, and supermax.

In Illinois, the preferred euphemisms are restricted housing, administrative detention, and indeterminate segregation.

I spent more than five and a half years in isolation, and I know what it can do. They threw me in a steel-fronted cell that had a box on the door and a small window. When it was time to eat, they unlocked the box, put my tray inside, closed the box, then opened the slide so I could grab my tray. They always covered the window so I had no human contact at all. These cells were reserved for those they especially wanted to hurt.

In solitary, you don’t notice it, but pretty quickly you begin to unravel. You pace the small cell, back and forth, back and forth. When I was a kid, I went to the zoo a few times. I used to see the tiger, who was always pacing back and forth. I used to wonder why he did that. Now I know. I felt like that animal, pacing back and forth. It almost became a compulsion.

You also begin to count. You count everything: the holes in the door, the bricks in the wall, the cracks, your steps, everything. This becomes compulsive. Your brain doesn’t stop; it’s looking for stimulation where there is none. Counting gives your mind something to do. When there is nothing, your brain invents things. It’s sensory deprivation taken to the extreme.

I became severely depressed and very paranoid. I convinced myself that the prison administration was trying to poison me. I didn’t eat for 25 days. Finally, I was told if I didn’t eat, I would be taken to court and force-fed. I said I would eat only if a nurse brought me my tray. I didn’t trust anyone else.

I realized I had to get ahold of myself or I wouldn’t be able to come back. Isolation is full of severely mentally ill people. IDOC does not have the staff or the patience to deal with such prisoners. They usually get written disciplinary reports and are buried in isolation. Unable to understand what’s going on or why, they end up spending years or decades there. I’ve seen friends who were sane lose their minds in isolation.

I talked to myself a lot. There was no one to talk to, so I had to become both sides of the conversation. I became my own best friend. I had nobody else. I was the only one there for myself.

I was able to get hold of the paranoia but not the depression. I thought about killing myself more often than I care to admit. The loneliness was unbearable. I felt like I didn’t matter. I began to question if I was even real. Was I a figment of my own imagination? Did I even exist? I began to cut myself, reasoning that if I bled, then I must exist. I bear those scars to this day. They remind me of when I was tortured and of just how little holds our minds together.

I came out of isolation a much different person. I didn’t talk; I was afraid of social situations. The paranoia I fought so hard to control came back. I was afraid people were going to hurt me. I didn’t know how to interact with people, and I didn’t understand social cues.

It’s been many years since I got out of isolation. Over time, and with a lot of difficult work, I was able to lose the paranoia. I know that I am real. I’m still socially awkward, and I get anxious around a lot of people. I’m quiet. When I get upset or stressed out, I start counting. When I catch myself doing it, I force myself to stop. All these years later, counting is still a coping mechanism. I may have left isolation, but isolation has never left me.

The toxic combination of social isolation, sensory deprivation, and enforced idleness results in many psychiatric symptoms, including anxiety, depression, anger, impaired impulse control, paranoia, visual and auditory hallucinations, cognitive disturbances, obsessive thoughts, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychosis, self-harm, and suicide. Solitary confinement causes these things—imagine how much it exacerbates pre-existing mental illness!

Humans are naturally social beings, and the social pain that isolation inflicts can be the most torturous and damaging, affecting the brain in the same regions and manner as physical pain. This social pain can actually cause longer-term suffering than physical pain, due to the ability of humans to relive social pain months or even years later.

Multiple studies suggest that solitary confinement can fundamentally alter the brain’s structure in profound and permanent ways. The harm caused by solitary confinement can culminate in a complete breakdown of one’s identity. Even after a brief period of time, a prisoner is likely to descend into a mental fog in which alertness, attention, and concentration are all impaired.

This is a lasting trauma. This is torture. This is what is done in your name. We torture people and call it justice.

Anthony Ehlers is a writer incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center. 

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