(Chicago, IL. ) Today, America is approaching the end of a story, whose beginnings reach back to the birth of this country. “Distant Echoes: Black Farmers in America,” a visual document of the final generation of Black family farmers, chronicles the lives and working conditions of those farmers in the United States, through the images of award-winning photographer John Francis Ficara. The exhibition will open at the DuSable Museum of African American History on November 17, 2008 and continue through May 17, 2009. The Museum is located at 740 East 56th Place (57th Street at South Cottage Grove Avenue) in Chicago’s Washington Park.

DanceAfrica Chicago 2008 has made a change to the artistic line up for this year’s performance. On Friday, October 31, 2008, at 8:00PM at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park enjoy, Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater, Giwayen Mata, Andrea Kelly Dance Theater and POETREE.

(Chicago, IL)— After a 3 year break, it’s BACK! DanceAfrica Chicago, presented by the DuSable Museum of African American History makes its first main stage appearance with a West African Odyssey on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 8:00PM at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.