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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

Teach-in explores free speech issues in historical, modern contexts

February 7, 2018

African American Studies Prof. Martha Biondi spoke about free speech in its historical and contemporary contexts at a teach-in and discussion on Tuesday, referencing events from the national civil rights...

The Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Dr. Professors presented on Wednesday about revolutions in the 1960s and their effects on the political and cultural climate.

NU professors discuss changes in political, cultural climate in the 1960s

October 5, 2017

Northwestern professors tackled cultural issues from the 1960s during a lecture at the Block Museum of Art on Wednesday. The event, titled “Love and Then Some: 1960s Protest and Liberation, Civil...

Martha Biondi discusses the role police brutality plays in mass incarceration. Biondi spoke as part of a panel hosted by Unshackle NU.

Unshackle NU panel discusses mass incarceration, effects on communities

February 9, 2016

The United States’ mass incarceration illustrates the many ways racism persists in this country, panelists said at an event hosted by Unshackle NU on Monday night in Harris Hall. Panelists discussed...

Bill Mullen, a professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University, speaks at a panel organized by Students for Justice in Palestine in Harris Hall on Monday evening. The panel focused on the recent vote by the American Studies Association to endorse the call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions.

Northwestern students, professors debate Israeli academic boycott at panel discussion

February 3, 2014

More than 60 students and professors came together Monday night to debate the American Studies Association boycott of Israeli universities and the issue of academic freedom in the Israeli-Palestinian...

Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, talks about her book “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of Americas Great Migration.” Davis gave the talk Thursday for the 2013 Allison Davis Lecture.

Author Isabel Wilkerson speaks about Great Migration

November 7, 2013

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson spoke to a packed audience Thursday about the Great Migration of the mid-20th century and black Americans' rise from Southern oppression. About 100 students...

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