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...

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, 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...

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, 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...