“A diverse community is essential to achieve our mission of creating the best possible learning environment and educational experience, because only by exploring issues with people of different backgrounds and viewpoints can we challenge our assumptions, test our ideas and broaden our understanding of the world." — Daniel Linzer, Provost
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Faculty
Historian specializes in African-American history and U.S. socio-legal history
Students
Graduate and McCormick schools showcase efforts at Best Practices Forum
Staff
Alumni
She reflects on her time at Medill, her successful TV sitcoms, her next big projects and what it is like to be one of the most powerful women in television.
News
Northwestern Celebrates Black History Month
Exhibitions, group discussions, lectures and African culture show among campus events
Promote 360 Plans Host of Mentoring Activities for 2013
Promote 360, the SESP student organization that fosters minority access to higher education, will touch the lives of scores of students through their college mentoring activities this year.
Preparing Students of Color for Selective Colleges
Workshop is call for educators to work together on college access, inclusion
Public Voices Fellowship
Northwestern University is partnering with OpEd Project to present the Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship Program beginning in Fall 2012 open to all Northwestern faculty members. We are now accepting applications.
Here's to the Class of 2016
Most academically gifted and diverse class will March Thru the Arch in the fall
Events
Tuesday, February 12 - 5:00 pm
African American Studies Speaker Series
"The Erotic Life of Diaspora: Black Queer Formations in the History of Neoliberalism." Roderick Ferguson, Professor of American Studies and Sociology, University of Minnesota.
Wednesday, February 13 - 7:15 pm
Controversial Black Art Panel
Department of African American Studies Presents Controversial Blackness 2013
Thursday, February 14 - 12:00 pm
“Sister Citizen” Book Discussion
Join a lively discussion on “Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America,” Melissa V. Harris-Perry’s provocative book on the harmful stereotypes of black women that pervade in American culture.
Thursday, February 28 - 5:15 pm
An Evening with Poet and Activist, Sonia Sanchez
Leon Forrest Lecture: SONIA SANCHEZ
Thursday, March 7 - 5:00 pm
Beautiful Urbanisms:The Rise of Mexican Neighborhood Beauty Pageants in Postwar Chicago
Lecture given by Mike Amezcua, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, LLSP
Thursday, March 14 - 5:00 pm
The Remittance Landscape: A Built Environment Perspective on U.S.-Mexico Migration
Lecture given by: Sarah Lopez, Provost Fellow in History, University of Chicago
Saturday, April 20 - 9:00 am
A Day with Northwestern 2013 - Keynote Speaker Patti Solis Doyle (SCS89)
The Rise of Women and Minorities in the Political Arena