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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


A person wearing light blue pants and silver jewelry is crouching forward with their eyes closed, resting on their right hand and holding purple grapes in their left hand. The setting is dark and the background is mostly blue with a red light to the left of the person.

Puerto Rican Arts Initiative to become joint project between Northwestern and the University of Texas at Austin

July 22, 2021

The Puerto Rican Arts Initiative, started by former Northwestern Prof. Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, will become a joint initiative between NU and the University of Texas at Austin this year.  The initiative...

(Pictured left to right) School of Communication Dean E. Patrick Johnson, actress/singer Kate Baldwin, conductor Roderick Cox and opera singer Kangmin Justin Kim.

“People need art”: Northwestern alumni reflect on arts, pandemic and social justice

January 26, 2021

The Northwestern School of Communication hosted a webinar Tuesday addressing how the pandemic and social justice are revolutionizing the world’s arts scene. The panel, titled “Setting the Stage:...

Young Natasha Trethewey with her mother and father. In her new memoir “Memorial Drive,” she writes about her childhood and the tragic loss of her mother.

Memorial for a Mother

October 14, 2020

The Monthly One of the most devastating passages of Natasha Trethewey’s “Memorial Drive” arrives halfway through the memoir, in the chapter “You Know.” After 80 pages describing Trethewey’s...

The Northwestern Arch. Students said they have experienced racism and exclusion at every level of the Northwestern theatre department, from department and student shows to curriculum.

Northwestern theatre students demand anti-racist action, accountability from department

August 9, 2020

On June 2, just over a week after the killing of George Floyd, Northwestern theatre faculty issued a statement to theatre majors against racial violence. Grace Dolezal-Ng (Communication ‘20) opened the...

E. Patrick Johnson. He will serve as the seventh School of Communication dean — and the school’s first African American dean.

E. Patrick Johnson named School of Communication dean; first African American in that position

June 13, 2020

E. Patrick Johnson has been named the next School of Communication dean, according to a Northwestern News release. Johnson will be the first African American to hold the role when he takes over as dean...

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