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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


Five young Evanstonians discussed racism and MLK Day during a panel Monday night.

Panelists discuss racism, significance of this year’s MLK Day

January 19, 2021

This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Evanston residents on a Monday panel agreed, was different from years past because of the frequency at which Black lives have been lost. The panel, hosted by...

Rabbi Jessica Lott closed the Monday afternoon event with a benediction, while Alpha Mu members held candles in front of their screens.

Alpha Mu’s MLK Day candlelight vigil explores themes of mass incarceration, abolition

January 18, 2021

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Northwestern’s Alpha Mu Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity held its 42nd annual candlelight vigil in honor of the civil rights leader, who was a member of the fraternity...

ETHS junior Chloe Ann Smith delivers the keynote speech for the Martin Luther King Day festivities. She said Evanston still has a lot of work to do to achieve King’s vision

MLK day celebrations call for equality, unity in Evanston

January 21, 2019

Evanston community members called for equality and unity at an event on Saturday, as the city celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day with performances and speeches at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center. The...

Durbin subject of Trump’s tweets after DACA meeting

January 18, 2018

U.S. Sen Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) became the target of President Donald Trump’s latest Twitter tirade on Monday after confirming last week that the president called some nations “shithole countries.”...

Evanston students gather onstage for the finale of Diverse Communities United in 2017. This year’s event focused around the theme “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing” — a line from one of Audre Lorde’s poems.

Diverse Communities United 2018 focuses on black women, black LGBTQ voices

January 15, 2018

Prompted by the current political atmosphere, this year’s Diverse Communities United 2018 performance focused on amplifying the voices of black women and black members of the LGBTQ community. Students...

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