“E pluribus unum” was adopted as the motto of the United States in 1782, appearing on the Great Seal as a symbol of unity. Yet, for generations, this unity did not extend to all.  Enslaved individuals...

Medill Prof. Ava Thompson Greenwell (Medill ’84) doesn’t remember having any Black woman as her professor while she was an undergraduate student at Northwestern, she said.  Her latest project,...

In 1968 and 1985, student demonstrators at universities across the United States made history. In both years, a nationwide mass uprising involving hundreds of thousands of students took over the front...

Fifty hours in, the 'Northwestern Liberation Zone' entered its third day with no signs of imminent escalation from administration or University Police. Around 10:15 p.m. Friday night, Josh — a representative...

It was the Spring of 1970; The War in Vietnam was in full force and U.S. troops were going into Cambodia. American college students went full bore into protest mode, and four students at Kent State (as...