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Texas politician Beto O’Rourke discussed his campaign experiences, how to remain hopeful while fighting for political change and the state of Texas politics Tuesday evening in front of more than 200 attendees at the Northwestern College Democrats’ fall speaker event in Norris University Center.  SESP Prof. Tabitha Bonilla moderated the discussion and asked O’Rourke, a...

Northwestern College Democrats will host Texas politician Beto O’Rourke for its fall speaker event, the group announced Monday. O’Rourke will speak at 7 p.m. on Nov. 14 in the Louis Room at Norris University Center. O’Rourke was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 and subsequently represented Texas’ 16th Congressional District for three consecutive...

Over 60 percent of every ethnic and racial demographic surveyed thinks reparations are good policy for the Chicago suburb.

Northwestern established a research collaborative last year to study Evanston’s first-of-its-kind reparations program passed in 2019. The Evanston Reparations Research Collaborative — spearheaded by the University’s Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy — found widespread support for the program in its first public opinion survey, released Tuesday. Results showed the program enjoys overwhelming...

Rep. Ilhan Omar vowed to continue to speak up in a fiery after being silenced by the GOP who ousted her from the House Foreign Affairs committee.

In a streak of first-day order of business items, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders bars the state from using Latinx when referring to Latinos.

Trump’s former White House press secretary, now the state’s governor, issues executive order targeting gender-neutral term

Former Trump administration Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was sworn in as Governor of Arkansas this week. Like so many other governors and presidents, she immediately signed a flurry of seven...

Though Evanston broke its voter turnout record in the 2018 midterms, low showings at the city’s primary elections in August and non-contentious races make turnout rates in the upcoming midterm election unclear.  In the 2018 and 2016 elections, Evanston led Cook County in voter turnout. In the last midterm election, when congressional and gubernatorial seats...

The tomatoes, chives and peppers in Evanston’s oldest school garden received visitors Tuesday night as parents gathered at Dawes Elementary School to discuss the garden and learn how to stay engaged with future programming. Lynn Hyndman founded the Dawes garden 17 years ago. At the time, she was a Dawes science lab teacher, and she...