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Report on the leadership of russian president boris yelton and Vladimir Putin and nashville authored local authors to take in the city at literary sites. That is just some of what you will see this weekend on booktv. For complete Television Schedule go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. We kick off the weekend with a panel on the history of race in chicago. It is from last weeks printers row lit fest. [inaudible conversations] welcom...

On March 4, the annual LEON FORREST Lecture Series will return with an innovative twist.  Rather than featuring distinguished speakers, the event will feature a collaborative Jazz performance from eight experienced musicians: Greg Ward, Marquis Hill, Brandee Younger, Jeff Parker, Makaya McCraven, De’Sean Jones and Ben LaMar Gay. The performance, which will take place from...

With Thanksgiving in the rear view mirror, Hyde Park has plunged into the holiday season. But fear not, we’ve put together a handy small business neighborhood shopping guide.

Last year, the African American Studies Department celebrated its 50th anniversary, 54 years after Black students demanded acknowledgement of Black art, culture, literature and history during the Bursar’s Office Takeover in 1968. Following the demonstration, Northwestern hired two visiting professors, including historian Lerone Bennett, who would go on to serve briefly as the first African...

Eight members of the Northwestern University faculty have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.

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The department of African American studies at Northwestern University (AfAm) is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a daylong in-person and virtual event series on Friday, May 20 featuring talks, panel discussions, and a dinner reception and award ceremony that are open to the public, with registration.

Mortality-aware syntax, friends on camera, covers, and ‘Blade Runner’ ballet.

  I can’t hit the page without hearing Hendrix, his psychedelically bluesed guitar journeys I bathed in for at least an hour every day for four or five years of my early twenties until I’d memorized every solo, him fingering feedback and folding wah wah into sonic ambulances of soul. I can’t hit the page without the echo of Muddy Waters’s Mississippi guitar that found its way to an electrified Chicago, without hearing the “I’m a Man” foundational blocks with his legendary harmoni...