‘Orange is the New Black’ actress shares her experience with immigration...
“Orange is the New Black” actress Diane Guerrero began her speech Tuesday night by calling attention to those affected by natural disasters in Latin America, the Caribbean and the southern United...
View ArticlePoet Kavi Ade performs as part of Rainbow Week
Spoken word poet Kavi Ade said after they came out as queer and transgender, their mother did not speak to them for years. “The last time we spoke, she says, ‘You are killing my daughter,’” Ade read...
View ArticleAcademy Award-winning playwright shares experiences as black, queer artist
One day after watching Thursday’s premiere of the Northwestern student production “In the Red and Brown Water,” Academy Award-winning playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney shared how his experiences as a...
View ArticleTrevor Noah talks comedy career, racial tensions
Early in his comedy career after immigrating to the United States from South Africa, Trevor Noah said he didn’t understand why black Americans aspired to visit Africa. Noah said he found the desire...
View ArticleFormer Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers reflects on career in political,...
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers compared his roles in politics and academia at an annual department of economics lecture Wednesday. Summers, who served as director of the White House...
View ArticleCTSS to host panel of acclaimed journalists
The Contemporary Thought Speaker Series will host a panel of three journalists — Doreen St. Félix, Rembert Browne and Wesley Morris — at an event Oct. 26, CTSS announced Thursday. The event, titled...
View ArticlePoet discusses challenges transgender people of color face at APAC, SASA event
Alok Vaid-Menon said they did not start to identify as transgender because they wanted to be a woman, but because they wanted to reclaim their femininity “from the women who stole it.” “There’s a...
View ArticleSteve Forbes, Charles Murray to visit NU as College Republicans’ fall speakers
Steve Forbes, editor in chief and chairman of Forbes Media, will be the annual fall speaker for Northwestern College Republicans, the group announced Thursday. The event, titled “Business, Media and...
View ArticleJournalists speak at panel about diversity in newsrooms
Three journalists spoke at Northwestern as part of a Thursday panel, discussing patterns in the changing media landscape and their experiences with diversity in newsrooms. The event, hosted by...
View ArticleAuthor Matt Taibbi talks police brutality, Eric Garner at Chicago Humanities...
New York Times bestselling-author Matt Taibbi discussed racial tensions and civilian-police interactions in Cahn Auditorium on Saturday as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. About 600 people...
View ArticleHillel to bring actor Josh Peck as fall speaker
Actor Josh Peck will speak at Northwestern on Nov. 9 in Cahn Auditorium as Hillel’s fall speaker. Peck, known for his role as Josh Nichols on the Nickelodeon television show “Drake & Josh,” will...
View ArticleNU, Emory professors discuss non-traditional narratives of history
Professors from Northwestern and Emory University discussed Monday their efforts to find non-traditional narratives of history through scholarship and poetry. Emory African American studies Prof. Carol...
View ArticleFormer Italian prime minister proposes strategy to defeat populism
Brexit negotiations are well underway, and a far-right German party gained seats in the parliament. But at a keynote address Tuesday, former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said there was reason...
View ArticleControversial political scientist Charles Murray talks Trump, criticizes...
Political scientist Charles Murray, whose appearances have sparked rowdy protests on some college campuses, spoke Wednesday about the conditions that led to President Donald Trump’s election and...
View ArticleQuestBridge co-founder discusses growth, program’s importance at Northwestern...
As a first-generation college student, Ana Rowena McCullough said she would have been a QuestBridge scholar if the program existed when she was in school. To give students the opportunity she never...
View ArticleJournalist E.J. Graff addresses activism, reporting in wake of #MeToo movement
The #MeToo movement is a “wildfire moment” for the nation as emerging women have exposed the pervasiveness of sexual harassment, journalist E.J. Graff said at a Monday event. “They have been wandering...
View ArticleFormer White House staffers talk gun control, tax reform
Considering how President Donald Trump has reversed several Obama-era reforms and initiatives, Don Graves, director of domestic and economic policy for former Vice President Joe Biden, said it feels...
View ArticleFor Members Only panelists discuss history, future of black community at NU
The past, present and future of For Members Only, Northwestern’s black student alliance, gathered in the Black House on Tuesday night for a panel discussion about the evolution of the black community...
View ArticleMuslim scholars discuss faith as motivation in Discover Islam Week keynote
Northwestern Muslim-cultural Students Association invited keynote speakers Imam Zaid Shakir and Imam Omar Suleiman for a conversation Thursday about reconstructing the perception of achievements by...
View ArticleSecond year of ‘Black Lives, Black Words’ to feature food drive, musical...
After helping bring black students’ work to the stage in last year’s “Black Lives, Black Words” play festival, Communication Prof. Aaron Todd Douglas said he is expanding the event this year to...
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