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The Progressive Forum is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2025 as America’s only expressly progressive speaker series, and one of the nation’s largest series of any kind with in-person and online audiences. 
 

Preeminent public intellectual, Fareed Zakaria, will appear at The Progressive Forum to discuss his upcoming book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, on Monday, May 13, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. CT at Congregation Emanu El in Houston.

by Randall Morton, Founder, The Progressive Forum

The following op-ed originally appeared in the Houston Chronicle, October 14, 2023. 

JaNae Collins, Lily Gladstone, Cara Jade Myers and Jillian Dion in "Killers of the Flower Moon (Melinda Sue Gordon/Apple TV+)

Last spring, an email arrived with the power of a comet jolted from its ancient orbit. It bore a faded newspaper clipping from 1920s Tulsa — a half-page pictorial of a driveway murder scene of my father’s parents, noting the spot where he watched it as a teenager.

Under the headline “felled by bullets,” I finally learned the facts of my grandparents’ murder. On my computer screen, the past unsealed itself — an era when whites, impelled by a culture of killing, slew Osage Indians with impunity. A next-door neighbor, a lone white man, had waited on the steps for my father’s parents’ black car. Knowing that a white man wouldn’t be prosecuted, he shot them over a petty dispute involving the use of a garage.

Acclaimed historian with more than 2 million avid readers of her daily newsletter, Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson will discuss her upcoming book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, at The Progressive Forum, Thursday October 19, at 7:30 p.m.