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In the 1300s, Mali's Mansa Musa set out for Mecca with an entourage of 60,000 people and thousands of pounds of gold. What would that gold be worth today?

The works on view serve to memorialize the many lives lost, allowing space and resources to mourn those individuals, and to process both the dark histories of the United States as well as the bold acts of resistance. Hopefully the exhibition moves visitors beyond rage or grief or empathy into action.

Scholars from Northwestern University and beyond will gather June 2 and 3 to celebrate the contributions of professor emeritus Hamid Naficy, a global authority on Iranian cinema and diaspora studies.

Filmmaker Marion Hill (Communication ’16) presented their film “Ma Belle, My Beauty” at the Block Museum of Art on Friday. The Department of Radio, Television and Film, its advanced directing program, Studio 22 and the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies sponsored the event. “Ma Belle, My Beauty,” which won the 2021 Audience Award winner...

Illinois Chief Equity Officer Sekile Nzinga and Northwestern professors hosted a teach-in on the implications of Samuel Alito’s leaked draft majority opinion striking down Roe v. Wade on Monday. “There are certain liberties that governments can deprive without due process of law,” said legal studies Prof. Joanna Grisinger.  “Among those liberties is the right to...