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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

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Reporting while black: Faculty, alumni talk experiences in journalism

Reporting while black: Faculty, alumni talk experiences in journalism

June 7, 2020

Robert Samuels (Medill ’06) was reporting on anti-Trump protesters at one of the then-candidate’s 2016 campaign rallies in Louisville during the primary season for The Washington Post. As he took notes...

Tejas Sekhar, Dr. Dorothy Owens and Sejal Sekhar pose with a donation in April, coordinated by EndingCOVID and the Metro Area Professional Organization.

Student-run nonprofit EndingCOVID looks to protect the vulnerable in crisis

June 5, 2020

In early April, as the coronavirus pandemic hit St. Louis, Weinberg senior Tejas Sekhar suddenly had $500. He’d won the prize at a Teach for America pitch competition, but his team wasn’t going forward...

The Justice for Bobby Russ petition page. Russ was shot and killed by a police officer on June 4, 1999, while driving to visit his mother. He would’ve graduated later that month.

Students share petition calling to reopen investigation into shooting of NU student Bobby Russ by police 21 years after his death

June 5, 2020

Twenty-one years ago, a Chicago police officer shot and killed Bobby Russ — a black Northwestern senior less than three weeks away from graduating — as he drove down the Dan Ryan Expressway to visit...

Insecure stars Yvonne Orji, left, and Issa Rae. The two will do a Q&A Friday evening over Zoom.

A&O announces co-sponsored event with Issa Rae and Yvonne Orji “to celebrate Black joy, Black art, Black women”

June 5, 2020

According to a press release, A&O will host a virtual Q&A tonight at 7:15 p.m. CST with Issa Rae and Yvonne Orji, two black cast members from the hit HBO show “Insecure.” The co-sponsored event will...

SESP sophomore Daniel Rodriguez speaks at a previous ASG meeting. Rodriguez called on ASG members Wednesday to be willing to actively learn and practice allyship to Northwesterns Black community and other marginalized groups.

ASG passes emergency resolution affirming University commitment to black student demands, donation legislation

June 4, 2020

In its final session of the academic year, Associated Student Government unanimously passed an emergency resolution and three pieces of legislation, resulting in a call upon the University to more adequately...

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