Another 90th birthday (see below)!  Timuel Black was a close associate of A. Philip Randolph and Martin Luther King; he led the voter registration drive that preceded Harold Washington’s election as mayor  – and one he was of Barack Obama’s first advisers when he ran for state senate in 1996.  He’s a widely respected educator and an activist with longtime commitments to civil rights, labor, peace and civil liberties movements (and a devotee of Duke Ellington).  And with the publication of two volumes of Bridges of Memory (the second volume was published this year), he’s become the oral historian of Chicago’s Black Metropolis. 

The Bronzeville Alliance is holding a forum on Saturday, December 6, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Tim Black’s alma mater, Wendell Phillips High School, 244 E. Pershing, to celebrate his birthday and discuss the Alliance’s vision of Bronzeville’s social, economic, and cultural development.  The event concludes with a keynote address by Professor Black.