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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

Northwestern alum Sarah Squirm performs standup at McCormick Auditorium. The event was hosted by One Book One Northwestern, and featured Squirm touching on issues of sex and feminism.

Sarah Squirm talks Northwestern, sex, bodily functions at One Book One Northwestern event

April 11, 2019

While walking onstage to begin her stand-up set, Sarah “Squirm” Sherman (Communication ‘15) saw someone in the audience immediately leave the auditorium. Her response? “If you don’t laugh...

Philosophy Prof. Jennifer Lackey leads a class at Stateville Correctional Center. Lackey and One Book One Northwestern volunteers visited the prison Wednesday to lead a discussion with inmates on “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

Stateville inmates draw parallels between prison life, dystopian fiction at One Book event

February 21, 2019

CREST HILL, Ill. — In “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood, women in the dystopian society of Gilead are stripped of their power, left without control over their lives and bodies. Demetrice...

Philosophy Prof. Jennifer Lackey speaks at an Evanston Literary Festival event in May 2017. Lackey collaborated with One Book One Northwestern to lead a discussion event with inmates at Stateville Correctional Center on Wednesday.

One Book leads discussion on equality, freedom in maximum security prison

April 12, 2018

CREST HILL, Ill. — When 39-year-old Labron Neal-Bey reads the Declaration of Independence, he said he doesn’t see a document that was written with black Americans like himself in mind. Neal-Bey...

YWCA sponsors Illinois art exhibit focused on race

October 8, 2014

The YWCA Evanston/North Shore has partnered with the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center to bring an exhibit about race and its origins to the museum starting Sunday. The exhibit, called...

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