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The Daily Northwestern

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

“No SROs” written in orange chalk on pavement outside a medium one-story building. Many people are walking around toward the back of the building, facing away from the camera and stepping over more chalk messages.

Skokie Schools Equity Collaborative, Abolition Coalition host anti-racist celebration and protest of SROs in D219

June 15, 2021

About 50 community members gathered with Skokie Schools Equity Collaborative and the Abolition Coalition of Skokie outside Niles Township High Schools District 219 offices before a June 8 Board of Education...

Defining Safe: One teacher’s battle for Asian American studies

Defining Safe: One teacher’s battle for Asian American studies

April 28, 2021

Albert Chan, a social studies teacher at Niles North High School, teaches one of the only high school Asian American studies classes in the country. The class was finally approved in 2016, more than ten...

Angela Williams’ mixed-media prints - inspired by African Andira symbols - bring together modern and traditional African art. Williams will speak about her work as a part of the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre’s 24/7/365 Black history broadcast series.

24/7/365 broadcast series highlights community artists, Black history

February 10, 2021

Dr. Elisha Hall is neither a stranger to the recording studio, nor to storytelling. He released his first instrumental album last month, and his three children often clamor for bedtime tales, which he...

Panelists Melissa Isaacson, Connie Erickson Brown and Amy Eshleman discuss topics in Isaacson’s new book, “State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation.” Isaacson’s book was published earlier this year.

Medill Prof. Melissa Isaacson speaks on panel about new book

October 13, 2019

Prof. Melissa Isaacson still remembers her first day at Niles West High School in 1975 and how all she wanted to do was find her place. Isaacson quickly found that place on the girls’ basketball team,...

The Illinois state champion 1979 Niles West women’s basketball team.

Medill Prof. honors high school basketball team’s legacy in new book

October 9, 2019

When Medill prof. Melissa “Missy” Isaacson sat down to write a new book about her high school basketball team, her first interview was with Becky Tuecke. During the team’s historic run to become...

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