Saturday, September 26 at Soldier Field. Walk with Team Black Alphabet or donate — 90% of what we raise comes back to Black Alphabet.

Pride South Side came back for its eighth year on July 5 at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, with more than a dozen performers and a record forty vendors. Our Executive Director, Adam L. McMath, joined the panel conversations, and the theme that ran through the day was hard to miss: safe spaces are no longer a nice-to-have. “Safe places are extremely important,” Adam told the Hyde Park Herald in its coverage of the festival. The urgency is real. Federal attacks on...

On November 6, our President and Executive Director, Adam L. McMath, was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame at the 34th annual ceremony at the Chicago History Museum. Two years after Black Alphabet was honored as an organization, the Hall recognized the person who has led it. Adam joined Black Alphabet in 2014, back when the organization was a scrappy film festival run on borrowed time and personal savings. He became President and Executive Director in 2018. Under his leadership,...