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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

Lake Forest College Prof. Courtney Pierre Joseph discussed DuSable’s time in present-day Chicago.

Lake Forest College professor talks Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable’s legacy at EPL

February 22, 2024

When Courtney Pierre Joseph, associate professor of history and African American studies at Lake Forest College, was researching the history of Haitians in Chicago for her dissertation, she found little...

Ortiz: Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson forges a new political coalition

Ortiz: Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson forges a new political coalition

April 16, 2023

  Before Chicago’s mayoral election last week, the top two electoral performances in the city (in my eyes) were that of Anton Cermak and Harold Washington.  Cermak, who was born in Bohemia,...

Bennett Johnson holds The Black Knights by J. Marcellus Burke, a book his company, Path Press, published. Johnson is known for working to increase black representation in politics, business and literature.

Civil rights activist Bennett Johnson reflects on life of service

February 18, 2016

Bennett Johnson said he first encountered discrimination while walking with his sisters from his North Evanston home to elementary school. Johnson, who went to Foster School, then Noyes Elementary,...

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