Each year, students across Evanston’s public school system learn about the destructive, racist system found throughout our country when Jim Crow laws started in the 19th century. Although these laws...

159 years ago, Gen. William T Sherman proposed the Special Field Order No. 15 that 400,000 acres of abandoned Confederate land be seized and granted to the thousands of newly free Black families. Those...

When Evanston announced passage of its historic reparations program in Mar. 2021, the national media was quick to latch on. “Evanston is the first U.S. city to issue slavery reparations. Experts say...

“I want solutions-based ideas only,” reparations leader Robin Rue Simmons told the crowd. As Evanston residents gathered to express their opinions on the city’s reparations program, the serious,...

In 1994, as a young Dino Robinson entered the Evanston History Center and walked into the archival area, he had no doubt that there would be plenty of reference information for his article on Black history...

Kenneth “Dos” Wideman’s quaint one bedroom apartment on Ridge Avenue—nestled among some of the city’s most beloved restaurants—has everything he could want in a home. Within the apartment’s...

After his mother-in-law became sick in 2011, Kevin Brown traveled back and forth between Sacramento and his wife’s hometown of Evanston, searching for a job position in the Chicago suburb. Brown’s...