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

The Daily Northwestern


Biondi: The encampment agreement is a remarkable achievement

Biondi: The encampment agreement is a remarkable achievement

May 1, 2024

In 1968 and 1985, student demonstrators at universities across the United States made history. In both years, a nationwide mass uprising involving hundreds of thousands of students took over the front...

Drawing on a variety of interviews with organizers and activists in the United States and Canada, the novel focused on six abolitionist organizations from each respective country.

Authors Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché discuss abolition, new novel during Monday conversation

April 15, 2024

Almost 10 years after they first began discussing the book, authors Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché discussed their recently released novel, “How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against...

Ph.D. student Olabanke Goriola (top right) presented a paper co-authored by herself and performance studies and Black studies Prof. Dotun Ayobade. The paper analyzed Burna Boy’s single “Monsters You Made” and its relation to the Nigerian #EndSARS movement.

Scholars from around the world present research at Northwestern Afrobeats symposium

October 22, 2023

Presenters from around the world gathered at Louis Hall Friday and Saturday for a symposium on contemporary African music. Titled “Afrobeats: Lower Frequencies of Contemporary African Sounds,”  the...

Cydney Hope Brown wears pink clothing with “Black to Front” symposium graphic behind her.

‘Black Studies is inclusivity and community’: ‘Black to Front’ symposium celebrates department renaming

May 22, 2023

The Department of African American Studies celebrated its renaming to Black Studies in a Friday symposium titled “Black to Front.”  In April 2022, the department voted unanimously to change its...

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News Quiz: African American Studies department name change, reproductive justice panel, Northwestern-Michigan lacrosse game

May 17, 2023
Try your hand at this week's news quiz to test your knowledge of Evanston and Northwestern headlines.
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