After a summer of racial justice protests, a critical election and wildfires across the country, several prominent activists and movements have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
American politician...
OAK PARK, Ill. — Residents and community leaders gathered outside Live! Cafe Thursday evening for a candlelight vigil in response to a suspected hate crime that targeted the Black-owned business the...
2020 has seen men’s sports begin to embrace social justice movements and try to bring attention to issues like police brutality and racial inequality in America. Following the killing of George Floyd...
On Nov. 4, Alexis Hadac, 19, and Haylee Sandoval, 19, of Berwyn, were babysitting when they took the kids to get some fresh air at the Chicago Women’s Park and Gardens, which ended with a physical altercation...
Election Day was quite different this year. Businesses were boarded up in anticipation of potential protests, results took longer than we normally experience and on top of that, a global pandemic accompanied...
President A. Gabriel Esteban was in attendance at DePaul’s SGA meeting on Nov. 5. Students were able to ask the president pressing questions around its relations with Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police,...
Cole Bursch, Contributing Writer
• October 18, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS—Outside the Cup Foods next to where George Floyd was killed at the knee of former Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, a memorial for Floyd is still flourishing...
Eiman Navaid , Contributing Writer
• October 18, 2020
During the midst of the death of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, the television show "Cops" was canceled after 30 years of being on-air, with a spokesperson from Paramount...
This past summer saw America face two major challenges: the Covid-19 pandemic and the continuation of social injustice and police brutality.
In May, a video emerged of Minneapolis police officer Derek...
From making her a meme to using her for social capital, Breonna Taylor was taken advantage of. We took advantage of her name and threw it around inappropriately. We didn’t focus on getting her justice...
Led by DePaul professor Matthew Girson, the DePaul community took a step towards opening up discourse surrounding racism in a Racism Teach In on Sept. 8.
Girson was compelled to start a conversation...
Professor Matthew Girson will be holding a teach in for the DePaul community to discuss racism and related topics on Tuesday, Sept. 8 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Presenters are from a wide variety of disciplines...
