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...

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,...

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...

Northwestern announced history Prof. Leslie Harris as the One Book One Northwestern faculty chair for the 2022-23 academic year, according to a Monday newsletter.  Harris is a slavery historian and...

Northwestern will recognize Juneteenth as an official holiday starting this year, the University announced in a Tuesday news release.  Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when some of the last enslaved...