Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In her latest work, To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul, Tracy K. Smith, the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, looks back on four hundred years of American history and asks how Americans might come together to view our shared past. Join Chicago Humanities for a stunning meditation on family, memory, history and a vision of where we might go in the future.

This program is part of the Social Justice and Equity Series supported by Allstate and ITW.

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