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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


The Joseph E. Hill Early Childhood Education Center holds the offices for Evanston/Skokie School District 65. Five candidates for the District 65 school board spoke at a forum Tuesday night.

District 65 board candidates discuss $4.5 million deficit, equity at education forum

January 25, 2017

District 65 school board candidates spoke about closing the achievement gap among minority students and offsetting the district’s deficit at a forum Tuesday evening. The forum — sponsored by the...

Local professor Joan Marie Johnson speaks to Evanston residents about perspectives not included in the bestselling novel “The Help.” The history professor talked about black female activists, including Rosa Parks and and Septima Clark.

History professor discusses missing perspectives in ‘The Help’

November 9, 2014

A history professor spoke to more than 30 people at the Evanston Public Library on Sunday about the experiences and perspectives author Kathryn Stockett left out of her bestselling novel "The Help." Joan...

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) spoke about youth involvement in politics at Northwestern on Tuesday. She encouraged students to vote in off-season elections and spoke about a new initiative to register voters.

Schakowsky talks voter suppression, youth political engagement

May 13, 2014

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) spoke Tuesday at Northwestern about the Voting Rights Act and how college students can become more politically engaged. More than 20 individuals attended the talk,...

Myrlie Evers-Williams delivers the concluding keynote address for Northwestern’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration Monday evening. Evers-Williams is a civil rights activist and former chairperson of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Former chair of NAACP closes MLK celebration with keynote address

January 27, 2014

To end a week of commemoration for Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist and author Myrlie Evers-Williams delivered a keynote address Monday, stressing the importance of King's legacy and commenting...

NAACP official: Graduate student failed Bienen class after refusing to perform Walt Whitman lyrics

August 7, 2013

A graduate student failed a Bienen class after he refused to perform a song with lyrics written by Walt Whitman, citing the poet's comments on black people, according to a top NAACP official. George...

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