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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

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


There is a black poster board with the words, “We Walk: Black Internationalism” Underneath are various printed slides with photos of people and information. A person stands next to the poster, which is leaning against a tree, and speaks to a group of people sitting in lawn chairs.

“We Walk” celebrates Black history with access in mind

September 27, 2021

On Sunday afternoon, passersby in Dawes Park stopped to listen to anthropologist Edward C. Davis IV.  The professor of African American studies at an Illinois high school described how he discovered...

An illustration of drums, a cello, a clarinet, a trumpet and a violin with the title "Battling the Bienen Barriers" on top.

In Focus: Bienen students share experiences, advocate for increased representation and uplifting of Black composers, musicians

June 7, 2021

As Tahirah Whittington, the cellist of all-Black Chicago string quartet D-Composed, flew through a piece by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, her young audience stared in awe. The performance was part of...

In Focus: Diversifying classical music through education

In Focus: Diversifying classical music through education

June 7, 2021

According to a 2014 study by the League of American Orchestras, less than 2 percent of musicians in the approximately 800 orchestras surveyed were Black. The lack of Black representation in classical music...

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Kailie Holliday