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ITAV’S Freedom School Empowers Through Social Justice
It Takes A Village Acquires Historic Hales Franciscan for $12 Million
ITAV Pumpkin Patch 2023
Juneteenth Village Fest: Celebrating Family & Freedom
Chicago Explorers Summer Camp 2023
The Robert R. McCormick Foundation grants ITAV $200,000 for the PEL Test Preparation Program Pilot
BET Documentary
CHANGE THE NAME
Student activists and educators from Village Leadership Academy campaign to change the name of a park from a slaveholder to abolitionists Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood.