In response to Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star, this exhibition presents powerful photographic and film works by Carlos Javier Ortiz and David Schalliol from the MoCP’s permanent collection and Midwest Photographers Project. Through deeply personal narratives, both artists confront systemic racism and structural inequities embedded in Chicago’s urban landscape and beyond. Ortiz’s projects A Thousand Midnights and We All We Got examine the enduring impact of the Great Migration and the cyclical nature of violence and poverty through the lives of Black youth and families. Schalliol’s The Area and related photographs document the human cost of displacement in Englewood, revealing how development and policy erase Black communities. Together, their work offers a layered meditation on place, power, and resistance.