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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

Sketches of people protesting in front of a Black building with chalk-style outlines over a collage of black and white photos of students protesting at the Bursar’s Office in 1968.

55 years after Black student activists occupied the Bursar’s Office, students see unresolved problems and progress

May 22, 2023

Content warning: This article contains discussions of racial violence. When Leslie Harris (Weinberg ’70) thinks back to his college years at Northwestern, he recalls an unwelcoming campus community...

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History Prof. and Organization of Women Faculty co-chairs win Provost Awards for Exemplary Faculty Service

February 7, 2023

History Prof. Laura Hein and Organization of Women Faculty co-Chairs Karen Alter and Leslie Harris won the Provost Awards for Exemplary Faculty Service, the University announced. The award, presented...

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The Daily Explains: The Organization of Women faculty letter

November 21, 2022

In spring 2022, Northwestern’s Organization of Women Faculty co-chairs decided they wanted the University to finally improve its work toward gender equity. So they did something about it.  The organization...

A screen with a man’s face hangs down from the ceiling with the words “Clint Smith” next to it.

Clint Smith discusses racial reckoning, slavery at One Book One Northwestern keynote

October 18, 2022

As a young boy growing up in New Orleans, Clint Smith felt socially, intellectually and emotionally paralyzed. “(I was) inundated with messages about all the things that were wrong with Black people,...

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One Book team brings programming for ‘How the Word Is Passed’ to NU

September 27, 2022

Author Clint Smith begins “How the Word Is Passed” with a vignette on his drive to Monticello, a plantation in Central Virginia and the summer home of Thomas Jefferson. Smith discusses his tour of...

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