NU Hillel and Religious Action Center host teach-in on civic engagement,...
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism legislative assistants Jacob Greenblatt and Joshua Burg emphasized getting out the vote amid the current landscape of voter suppression at a Thursday event...
View ArticleThe Chicago 400 highlight need to reform registry and banishment laws
The Chicago 400 Alliance and the NU Center for Civic Engagement looked at how public conviction registries and housing banishment laws disproportionately force Black men into homelessness and...
View ArticlePanelists discuss implications of 2020 presidential election, possibility of...
Panelists discussed the significance of the 2020 presidential election in a historical and global context in a Monday roundtable hosted by Northwestern’s Center for International and Area Studies and...
View ArticleFMO to host activist Angela Davis at this year’s State of the Black Union
For Members Only, Northwestern’s premier Black Student Alliance, will host activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis at its annual State of the Black Union on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. A major figure in the...
View ArticleA&O to virtually host comedian Sarah Cooper on Nov. 11
Writer and comedian Sarah Cooper will participate in a virtual Q&A and discussion Nov. 11 at 8 p.m., A&O Productions announced Thursday. Cooper is the second guest in the group’s virtual fall...
View ArticleFatimah Asghar urges audience to speak out against injustices in poetry...
Writer and educator Fatimah Asghar spoke about partition, the political climate in the United States and her creative process in a Thursday poetry reading and Q&A co-hosted by Rainbow Alliance and...
View ArticlePanelists discuss impact of 2020 presidential election on BIPOC communities
Expert professors conveyed the importance of voter turnout and grassroots organizing in a Thursday panel hosted by the Asian American Studies Program. The panel was part of a two-part series examining...
View ArticleMedill alumni discuss 2020 election coverage and impacts on journalism industry
One week after Election Day, the Northwestern Alumni Association hosted a post-election panel of Medill alumni covering politics at major news organizations who offered their insights on the election....
View ArticlePanelists discuss racism and impact of coronavirus on marginalized communities
Northwestern’s Health Professions Advising and Multicultural Student Affairs co-hosted a panel Wednesday where scholars discussed how racism and racist practices have made historically marginalized...
View ArticleAngela Davis engages community, student abolitionists in annual State of the...
Activist and scholar Angela Davis discussed systemic racism, political activism, police and prison abolition Thursday during For Members Only’s annual State of the Black Union. Over 1,600 people logged...
View ArticleMohamed Ghilan encourages students, offers advice on integrating Islam into...
Scholar Mohamed Ghilan discussed how secularism has caused many believers to “compartmentalize” their religion at a Friday event hosted by Northwestern’s Muslim-cultural Student Association. Ghilan...
View ArticleProfessors discuss institutional and gendered Islamophobia
Salman Sayyid, professor of Social Theory and Decolonial Thought at the University of Leeds spoke with African American Studies Prof. Barnor Hesse in a Tuesday webinar hosted by the Buffett Institute...
View ArticleSociology Prof. Andrew Papachristos disputes “bad apple” phenomenon,...
Chicago’s police violence is a systemic issue, not the result of a small number of problematic officers, sociology Prof. Andrew Papachristos said at a One Book One Northwestern event Wednesday....
View ArticleAbolition activist Mariame Kaba to deliver MLK keynote address
Abolition activist Mariame Kaba will give the keynote address during Northwestern’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Week in January. Kaba, who studied sociology at Northwestern and has taught...
View ArticleKeith LaMar addresses Northwestern community from solitary confinement on...
Keith LaMar, a death row prisoner currently in his 27th year in solitary confinement, spoke to Northwestern community members in a virtual event hosted by the Northwestern Prison Education Program...
View ArticleExperts discuss the problematic assumptions behind solutions to menstrual...
Reproductive health experts critiqued an Oscar-winning documentary on menstrual equity in India at a discussion hosted by Menstrual Equity Activists and Northwestern University Women Filmmaker’s...
View ArticleIbram X. Kendi talks antiracism and policing in FMO- and PU-sponsored event
For Members Only and Northwestern Political Union hosted author and professor Ibram X. Kendi for a conversation on antiracism and policing Thursday night. African American Studies Prof. Nicole A....
View ArticleMedill Black History Month panel discusses race reporting, objectivity
Medill alumni at various news outlets discussed their experiences as Black journalists, as well as race and identity within the media landscape, at Wednesday’s Medill Black History Month panel....
View ArticleActivist and author Virgie Tovar discusses body positivity, diet culture for...
Body image activist Virgie Tovar spoke to the importance of an intersectional approach to health and weight discrimination in a guest lecture Thursday. In an event organized by NU College Feminists a...
View Article‘We are disproportionately abused’: Formerly incarcerated activist, scholars...
Evie Litwok — a formerly incarcerated queer activist, lesbian and daughter of Holocaust survivors — has only been out of prison for five years. Litwok was arrested in 1997 on allegations of tax...
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