Digital Realty Stage
(On W. Polk St., at Plymouth Ct.)
Sunday 9/13, 3pm

Morgan Campbell is an award-winning sportswriter, and the author of the acclaimed memoir, My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and The Battles That Made Us. The book details his experience growing up Black and American, in Canada, in a family whose two halves are locked in a bitter, generations-long conflict. My Fighting Family was named a National Association of Black Journalists Outstanding Book of 2025, and shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. It also earned Campbell a nomination for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize.

Campbell is the son of two South-Siders, and a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.