Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action Day 1

• Event Date: Saturday, July 18, 2026
• Time: 10:30 am–3:45 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL

• Talk

John Lewis was a legislator and an activist who was passionate about ending racial segregation and securing voting rights. We need his words—and his spirit—now more than ever.

Our coalition of organizations in and around Champaign County invites you to a weekend filled with the topics Lewis loved because addressing issues and celebrating wins benefits us all.

At Good Trouble Lives On, taking place July 17 through 20, learn about Lewis’ legacy, voting rights and elections, honoring history, dignity for everyone, and so much more.

Saturday Agenda:

• 10:30 a.m. Keynote speaker the Rev. Terrance L. Thomas (2023-24 John Lewis Fellow with the Faith and Politics Institute)
• 11:35 a.m. Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons
• Lunch break
• 12:55 p.m. Dr. Jeffrey Trask, CU Reparations Coalition
• 1:55 p.m. Robert White, African American Heritage Trail
• 2:55 p.m. Chyna Figeroa-Dixon - "It Takes A Village: Mindset Frames Perspective”

This program is presented in conjunction with the Unfinished Revolutions: Living Stories of American Right Exhibit

Presenting Coalition Members:

• ACLU of Champaign County (external link)
• Bend The Arc: Jewish Action Champaign-Urbana (external link)
• Champaign County Indivisible (external link)
• Champaign Urbana Reparations Coalition (external link)
• Champaign Urbana Resistance Effort (CURE (external link))
• Illinois for a World BEYOND War (external link)
• ILVOTE of Champaign County (external link)
• Indivisible Illinois (external link)
• Indivisible Vermilion County (external link)
• League of Women Voters Champaign County (external link)
• NAACP Champaign County Branch (external link)
• Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter, Prairie Group (external link)
• Spurlock Museum of World Cultures
• UC Reproductive Justice (external link)
• Uniting Pride (external link)