When Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman in 2012, it was Evanston artist Fran Joy’s birthday. As she celebrated another year of life, Trayvon Martin’s family mourned the loss of his. Joy...

On Wednesday — over six months after police shot 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in her own home — a Louisville grand jury came to a decision. Former Louisville detective Brett Hankinson was charged with...

The Northwestern University Women’s Center kicked off its year-long theme of “Gender, Work, & Power” with a keynote address by civil rights activist Dolores Huerta on Thursday. The speech, fittingly...

Almost 60 years have passed since the murder of Emmett Till, but people still do not tell his story accurately, Till’s cousin Simeon Wright said Sunday in Evanston. Through a retelling of his eyewitness...

An attorney who represented Trayvon Martin’s family spoke Thursday at Northwestern about the George Zimmerman trial and the not-guilty verdict. The event, titled “Hoodies and Hate Crimes,”...