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MLK Dream Week events will be held online

Signature events, the candlelight vigil and keynote address, have moved to Zoom

‘A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence’ coming to the Block Museum

Five years in the making, the exhibition stakes a claim on the power of the visual to make change

Northwestern continues Racial Equity and Community Partnership grants

‘Our first year of funded projects is already having an impact’

Honoring Emmett Till’s life — and his mother’s legacy

Medill professor announces the creation of a new institute to “reach one another, to teach one another”

The Black House reopens with reflections on the past and a look to the future

After renovations, a new design and feel to a critical space for Black connection and community

Northwestern expands social justice and anti-racism learning

What is the best age to talk with children about race?

Q&A with psychology professor and IPR research fellow Sylvia Perry

Student activists reflect on growth and change over Northwestern years

Four community-centered students recognized by annual campus change award

Northwestern receives Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award

Honor comes from the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education

The Graduate School announces social justice mini grant awardees

Twelve student organizations and individuals awarded grants of $2,500

Northwestern scholar of Black education to study Evanston reparations

kihana miraya ross has received a $250,000 Spencer grant to support her work

Bienen School of Music launches ‘Black Composer Showcase’ series

Juneteenth reminds us just how far we have to go

Human microbiome could shed light on higher morbidity rate in minoritized populations

The link between environmental inequities and disease may lie in the gut

Northwestern funds 21 projects to advance racial equity in Evanston and Chicago

Racial Equity and Community Partnership grantees announced

One year later: Faculty panel on impact of George Floyd murder

Panel on June 1 will discuss social justice and transformational change

How do people make change?

Northwestern experts share the keys to effective social movements

Practicing restorative justice at Northwestern

Q&A with TiShaunda McPherson of the Office of Equity

Tracing the American civil rights movement that started long before the Civil War

In her new book, historian Kate Masur examines the early activists who envisioned the United States as a multi-racial nation

Powerful stories of wrongly convicted supports the push to abolish death penalty nationwide

Northwestern students, alumni and faculty take part in a new reading of the acclaimed play “The Exonerated”