Author Visit: We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything with Arionne Nettles

Join us for a lively evening with We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything author Arionne Nettles. Pop culture expert Arionne Nettles takes us through how Black Chicagoans have led pop culture in America for decades, and gives insight into how culture spreads and influences our lives.

Books will be available for sale, courtesy of our neighborhood bookstore, The Book Table, and the author will autograph books after the program. 

About the author

Arionne Nettles is a university lecturer, culture reporter, and audio aficionado. Her stories often look into Chicago history, culture, gun violence, policing, and race & class disparities, and her work has appeared in the New York Times Opinion, Chicago Reader, The Trace, Chicago PBS station WTTW, and NPR affiliate WBEZ.

She is a lecturer and the director of audio journalism programming at Northwestern University’s Medill School as well as host of the HBCU history podcast Bragging Rights and Is That True? A Kids Podcast About Facts.