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Students uncertain as abroad resumes Study abroad programs to resume Fall 2021 By JACQUELINE GERMAIN
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storytellers and visual artists. “(It’s) a year-round effort … for the Black community to uplift and to teach and to acknowledge all the
After six quarters of canceled overseas trips, undergraduate study abroad programs are currently set to return for Fall Quarter 2021, according to Northwestern’s Global Learning Office website. All undergraduate study abroad programs for the 20202021 academic year were cancelled as a result of COVID19, including those set for Summer 2021. GLO Director Sara Tully, however, said that the office is hopeful that fall 2021 trips will be possible. “Our hope is that the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic will be under greater control by that time and that we’ll be able to see students safely going abroad to study abroad again,” Tully said. The GLO website encourages undergraduates seeking to study abroad to apply for
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Angela Williams’ mixed-media prints – inspired by African Andira symbols – bring together modern and traditional African art. Williams will speak about her work as a part of the FleetwoodJourdain Theatre’s 24/7/365 Black history broadcast series.
24/7/365 broadcast celebrates Black history Fleetwood Jourdain Theatre highlights community artists, Black history with broadcast series By ILANA AROUGHETI
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Dr. Elisha Hall is neither a stranger to the recording studio, nor to storytelling. He
released his first instrumental album last month, and his three children often clamor for bedtime tales, which he draws from his thesis work on West African storytelling. Now he’ll bring the two passions
together to make his storytelling debut on air. “Storytelling is a genre, yes,” Hall said. “But before it is a genre, it is a way of living, it is a way of being.” Hall will join Evanston’s
Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre as the group kicks off its Black histor y project called 24/7/365: A Legacy of Greatness. The series features ten-minute broadcasts by local Black chefs, musicians,
Contract Dino Robinson honored with street name with NU Part of Church St. to be named ‘Morris “Dino” Robinson, Jr. Way” after Black historian reviewed By DELANEY NELSON
NU alum calls for review of contract By WAVERLY LONG
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The University is reviewing its contract with Uline and will make a decision on “how to best move forward” after connections surfaced between the company and the Capitol invasion, a University spokesperson told The Daily. After seeing a WBEZ report that Uline CEO Dick Uihlein contributed over $4 million to the Tea Party Patriots, a conservative political action committee that supported the invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a Northwestern
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The city of Evanston will name a part of Church St. after Evanston historian Dino Robinson for his work preserving the North Shore’s Black history. The section of Church St. between Hartrey Ave. and Grey Ave. will be designated as “Morris ‘Dino’ Robinson, Jr. Way,” after Robinson. Robinson, a lifelong Evanston resident, established the Shorefront Legacy Center in 1995, the North Shore’s only community archive for Black history. The center has since accumulated 350 linear feet of records documenting Black history in the area, Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) said. Robinson’s work providing historical documentation of the city’s discriminatory policies and practices has helped
further Evanston’s reparations program, aldermen said at Monday’s City Council meeting. Robinson also helped create the Reparations Stakeholders Authority of Evanston, a team of Black residents who will expand reparations work to include education, health and wellness and cultural support. Robinson also initiated the city’s African American heritage sites program, which sets apart eight significant sites with historical markers, as well as its annual Black Evanston History Makers program. At the meeting Monday, Robinson thanked the community for supporting his work at Shorefront and for making use of the archives he has helped collect. “I really owe a debt of gratitude toward the city of Evanston’s community, especially the Black community,” Robinson said. “You helped raise me. I’ve been here since
1980, and all I could think of is how strong this community is and what way can I give back to a community that gives so much.” Shorefront Board President Chip Ratliff said during public comment when it comes to Black history, Robinson’s work has put Evanston on the map. Robinson has received several community awards, including the Community Leadership Association “Distinguished Leadership Award” in 2002 and the Evanston NAACP Education award in 2010. Shorefront has also received global recognition for its archives, and Ratliff said organizations from around the world have reached out to the center as a resource. “His vision is that Black history should be common knowledge,” Ratliff said. “He has spent the last 25 years working hours that some of us
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Shorefront founder Dino Robinson stands among archives. The city will honorarily name a portion of Church St. after Robinson for his work preserving Black history in the North Shore.
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