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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

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Community members reflect on sexual freedom in Northwestern Sex Week art gallery

May 12, 2021

Through the works featured in Northwestern Sex Week’s virtual art gallery, artists reflected on their sexual freedom, the ways in which isolation impacted their relationship with sexuality and imagined...

Tayari Jones, wearing a black top, is on the left, and multiple copies of her book, “An American Marriage,” are featured on the right. The background is an ombre from orange to blue from left to right.

Award-winning author Tayari Jones talks race, marriage and incarceration in Leon Forrest Lecture Series

May 11, 2021

Best-selling author Tayari Jones said her book “An American Marriage” is about the intersectionality of marriage and race. As part of the annual Leon Forrest Lecture Series hosted by the African...

Sound Source: Band One South Lark reminds listeners of ‘the good old days

Sound Source: Band One South Lark reminds listeners of ‘the good old days’

May 11, 2021

Boy band One South Lark formed in high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. Now, away from each other at college, they still display a strong connection to each other and the music they make together, reminding...

A children’s book cover. A young Black girl with braided hair, colorful beads and a pink shirt looks at other children in the background playing in a park. She has a thought bubble which reads, “I hope they understand.”

Evanston resident publishes children’s book celebrating racial and cultural diversity

May 11, 2021

For as long as she can remember, Juleya Woodson has wanted to write a book.  After seeing how Black children were affected by the country’s reckoning with racial injustice last summer, the Evanston...

A woman sits on a table while acting. She holds a hoof-pick in her right hand and looks straight ahead, off camera.

Wirtz Student Theatre Project “Desdemona” breaks down sexual stigma

May 10, 2021

A&E Most interpretations of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello" center the perspectives of men like Iago or Othello himself, but a Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts Student Theatre & Performance...

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