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Building Skills, Getting Ready for Summer
Throughout the month of June, our youth programming staff and five alumni youth leaders got everything ready for the Freedom Fellowship. They worked HARD all month--selecting the Freedom Fellows, finishing up the curriculum design and making sure all of the operations details were figured out.
Freedom Fellowship Summer Leadership Institute!
July brought the Summer Leadership Institute! Twenty-four Freedom Fellows gathered Monday through Friday for four weeks, where they studied movement history, community organizing strategies, and systems of power and oppression.
CFS welcomes new board members
We welcomed two new members to our board of directors over the summer. Welcome Arthur Surratt and David Chavez!
Students Strike Back #CopsOutCPS
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The Chicago Freedom School Offered Food, Water And Rest To Weary Protesters Trapped Downtown — And The City Cited Them For It
The school, which ordered pizzas and gave out granola bars, was cited for “preparing and serving large quantities of food without the proper retail food establishment license."
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