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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


Two people stand in the foreground with multicolored signs in front of a crowd of protestors.

Demonstrators gather for rally and march to defend abortion access

October 16, 2022

Music teacher Paula McKernan, locally known as “Paula the Bard,” stepped up to the microphone on Sunday, ukulele in hand, and started to sing her original song “Women Choose.” in front of hundreds...

Illustration of two abortion rights signs with fists raised upward against a green background.

Gender and Sexuality Studies Program talks past, present and future of abortion rights

October 16, 2022

The Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and Center for Legal Studies discussed the historical context behind the reversal of Roe v. Wade at a Friday conversation. Led by legal studies Prof. Joanna...

Mills: The Supreme Court threatens Indian Country

Mills: The Supreme Court threatens Indian Country

October 14, 2022

Native Americans, as you might have guessed, have had a rocky relationship with the Supreme Court. Even the most revered justices, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, have ruled against the sovereignty of Native...

Graphic of five women with pro-abortion protest signs.

Local women-owned businesses raise almost $60,000 for Planned Parenthood IL

September 28, 2022

On a sunny July afternoon, more than 300 Evanston residents took to the streets ― to dance. A crowd of mostly women clad in colorful shirts that read “abortion is healthcare” and “bans off our...

Two signs, one illustrating a shackled uterus and the other reading “Reproductive Rights Now” in green text, are interspersed between human hands held in fists against a light-green background.

NU students discuss past and future work in abortion rights post-Roe

August 2, 2022

When Weinberg junior Vivica Lewis first learned the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, she said she stayed off social media and avoided talking to people about the news because “it just hurt so bad.” Lewis...

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