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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

The myth of the ‘great equalizer’: Preliminary data show Black Evanston residents contract virus at higher rates

The myth of the ‘great equalizer’: Preliminary data show Black Evanston residents contract virus at higher rates

April 11, 2020

The novel coronavirus has upended life as many Americans know it. Spreading across the country like wildfire, it has affected nearly every state and territory, leading some to call the virus the “great...

The cover of “Remaking a Life.” Celeste Watkins-Hayes’ book focuses on the inequality women face living with HIV/AIDS.

Q&A: Prof. Celeste Watkins-Hayes talks about new book “Remaking a Life”

February 12, 2020

Since 2005, Weinberg Prof. Celeste Watkins-Hayes has interviewed more than 100 women in Chicago living with HIV and another 75 activists, service providers and policy officials. Her new book, “Remaking...

African American studies Prof. Richard Iton died Wednesday at 51 of natural causes. Iton came to Northwestern in 2002.

African American studies Prof Richard Iton dies at 51

April 25, 2013

African American studies Prof. Richard Iton, an expert on critical race theory, died Wednesday morning of natural causes. He was 51. Iton had privately battled leukemia for more than a decade, said...

African-American studies Prof. Richard Iton has died at 51, the department announced today. Iton came to Northwestern in 2002.

Updated: African American studies Prof. Richard Iton dies at 51

April 25, 2013

Prof. Richard Iton has died, the Department of African American Studies announced this morning. He was 51. Iton had been privately battling leukemia for more than a decade, said Darlene Clark Hine,...

Jan Carew was a key Caribbean intellectual and former chair of Northwestern’s department of African American studies who worked at the from 1973-1985. Carew died last month at the age of 92.

Northwestern African American studies professor, noted novelist dies at 92

January 11, 2013

Jan Carew, a key Caribbean intellectual and former chair of Northwestern’s department of African American studies, died last month at the age of 92, the University announced Thursday. Carew, who taught...

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