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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 Reparations Ambassadors program is made up of white and non-black people of color who will take on the responsibility of educating others and fundraising.

“Generations of pain”: The road to reparations in Evanston

May 29, 2020

Maria Murray was 15 years old in 1855 when she was purchased out of slavery by a white family and brought to work as an indentured servant in their Evanston home. She was one of Evanston’s first black...

The Evanston Equity and Empowerment Commission continued discussions regarding reparations on Thursday.

Equity Commission discusses reparations plans, reconciliation initiative

July 19, 2019

The Evanston Equity and Empowerment Commission met Thursday to discuss the progress of a recently-established subcommittee addressing reparations to black residents. At last month’s commission meeting,...

The Evanston Equity and Empowerment Commission discusses a potential “Solutions Fund” at a Thursday meeting.

Equity and Empowerment Commission discusses racial disparity and reparations

June 22, 2019

The Evanston Equity and Empowerment Commission established a subcommittee on Thursday to begin work on possible forms of reparations to black residents. Proposed by Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th), the...

The pipe organ inside Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church. The property the church was built on was purchased in 1916, after the members had worshipped in a plumbers union hall.

‘A church of families’: Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church celebrates 125th anniversary

April 24, 2019

As Christians around the world finished celebrating Holy Week on Sunday, Evanston Mayor Steve Hagerty proclaimed April 21-28 to be Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church week. Mount Zion Missionary Baptist...

Shorefront founder Dino Robinson stands among archives. The city will honorarily name a portion of Church St. after Robinson for his work preserving Black history in the North Shore.

Evanston Organizes: Evanston’s black community lacked recognition for decades. Shorefront Legacy Center aims to give it to them.

November 8, 2018

This story is part of a series of profiles of activist and community groups across Evanston. In 1995, Dino Robinson — anxious to explore the city’s black history — picked apart local archives,...

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