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Isacc Reilly, better known as Debe, had been filming scenes for a new music video in Northampton when he was detained at gunpoint by armed police.
Northwestern students have a storied history of fighting to make their university and community a better place. From the Bursar’s Office Takeover of 1968, when Black students held a sit-in to demand an improvement to race relations on campus, to Vietnam War protests, students — particularly marginalized ones — have consistently stood up for their...
When I arrived at Northwestern, I had no idea what I wanted to study. I didn’t start off as a journalism major and, prior to the pandemic, I wasn’t even on The Daily’s editorial board. I walked out of our newsroom on March 5, 2020 for what I didn’t realize would be the last time...
Ringing cowbells, clanging pots, pans and bowls and playing music from speakers, about 75 students gathered on the steps of Deering Library Saturday to protest in solidarity with Northwestern cheerleaders and for police abolition. The NU Community Not Cops action came just a day after NU and Evanston community members marched to University President Morton Schapiro’s house to protest the appointment of Mike Polisky as the University’s next athletic director. Polisky was named as a defendant in a sexual harassment case filed in January by a member of NU’s cheerleading team, and membe...
On the sixth anniversary of Chicago’s reparations ordinance, local activists and scholars discussed police abolition, collective approaches to community organizing and healing from state violence in a Thursday discussion. The event, hosted by the Council for Race and Ethnic Studies in its inaugural spring speaker event “Abolitionist Futures,” was moderated by Asian American Studies Prof. Patricia Nguyen. The discussion and Q&A featured founder of Black Lives Matter Chicago and co-executive director of the Chicago Torture Justice Center Aislinn Pulley, and Prof. Dylan Rodriguez, who te...