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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


Local Black medical professionals addressed vaccine hesitancy among the Black community and encouraged community members to get vaccinated at a webinar Monday hosted by Evanston’s Second Baptist Church in partnership with AMITA Saint Francis Hospital Evanston.

Second Baptist Church webinar addresses Black wellness, resiliency amid pandemic

February 16, 2021

AMITA Health gynecologist Riley Lloyd emphasized the importance of building Black community amid the pandemic Monday night. “What helps our community is when we’re better neighbors,” Lloyd said....

 Evanston Hospital manager Bob Watkins kneels at Friday’s vigil. Hundreds attended the event, part of a nationwide movement of medical professionals showing solidarity with the black community.

Evanston hospital workers kneel in solidarity with black community

June 7, 2020

Evanston health workers gathered Friday afternoon in a show of solidarity with black community, joining a nationwide “White Coats for Black Lives” movement. Hundreds of medical professionals, hospital...

Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th). Rue Simmons hosted a Thursday town hall to discuss Evanston’s reparations fund.

City hosts second town hall on Evanston reparations fund

May 21, 2020

Just over 100 participants gathered through Zoom on Thursday for a virtual town hall on Evanston’s historic reparations fund. The fund, established through a city resolution passed in November 2019,...

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...

A man holds a sign outside the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. Over 70 residents gathered outside on Monday to protest a number of proposed budget cuts, chanting “prioritize our people, we shall not be moved.”

Faith leaders demand aldermen put people first in budget

October 29, 2018

Over 70 residents gathered outside the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center Monday to protest a number of proposed budget cuts, chanting “prioritize our people, we shall not be moved.” Attendees at the...

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