In March of 2020, the City of Evanston became the first U.S. municipality to agree to pay Black residents reparations. Black residents can receive up to $25,000 if they were affected by discriminatory housing policies and practices, which the city …
India is currently home to more than 1.3 billion people, but a cultural preference for sons has meant the population has disproportionately more men than women. As a result, India lags behind many countries around issues of gender equality, and …
Larry Irving, president of the Northwestern Alumni Association, is using his platform to focus on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Since beginning his term in Sept. 2020, Irving said the NAA board has been working to build a community …
Marzouq Alnusf, a PhD candidate in Weinberg’s Department of Philosophy, has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow. Nationally, this award is arguably the most prestigious fellowship available for the humanities addressing questions of religious and ethical …
Three doctoral students in Weinberg have been awarded the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2021-2022. The recipients of this prestigious award are Ashley Dennis, Andrea Rosengarten, and Azadeh Safaeian.
This fellowship supports a year of research and writing to …
A new survey reveals the importance of talking about racism with White 8–12-year-olds when Black children start to experience it. Professor of psychology Sylvia Perry and Jamie Abaied of the University of Vermont conducted this survey to understand the extent …
Mónica Russel y Rodríguez, Assistant Provost in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, offered insight in a recent article in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
The article discusses the rise in social activism on campuses across the …
Professor kihana miraya ross, of the Department of African American Studies, has been awarded the Spencer Foundation Large Grant for her research project, “Wrestling with reparations: A historical and ethnographic study of a Black community’s struggle for educational …
James Druckman the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Institute for Policy Research associate director is part of a university research consortium, which includes Northwestern, Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers, investigating attitudes on COVID-19.
A new national survey showed …
Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies and president of the American Sociological Association, explains how social justice movements succeed in the Scientific American article “From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter.”