Bronzeville apparel shop honors the Negro Baseball League in a place where it started
By Ebony JJ Curry Medill Reports In 1992, Bruce Gage saw a young man wearing a Negro League Baseball cap at a Cubs game at Wrigley Field. “I was like wow,” he said. “If they’re going to wear baseball caps, I’m going to introduce [more people] to the Negro League baseball caps.” Since then, Gage […]
Chronic pain patients experiencing a side effect of new opioid guidelines
By Jessy Zhou Medill Reports Chronic pain patients say they are having their medications tapered down and face stricter evaluations when changing doctors since the Centers for Disease control and Prevention (CDC) changed its guidelines for opioid drugs. According to the CDC, opioids were responsible for more than 60 percent of drug overdose deaths in […]
Medill reporters celebrate #BourdainDay with video stories from Buenos Aires
A reporting trip to Argentina results in stories inspired by Anthony Bourdain’s television work By Craig Duff Medill Journalism Professor Every year, graduate journalism students at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University pause their regular studies for a mid-winter trip. In a program called Medill Explores, students spent a […]
Food offers a bridge between distant cultures in Buenos Aires’ Chinatown
By Valerie Shuang Chen, Shijia (Miley) Sun and Tianqi Gou Medill Reports BUENOS AIRES — Argentina is the furthest country in the world away from China, and the differences are immediately noticeable to a Chinese reporter. From vibrant street murals, to stifling heat, the city combines faded European architecture with Latin passion. But we found […]
Artists talk freedom in Buenos Aires, a city that embraces street art
Clara Seung Lee and Karleigh Michelle Stone Medill Reports BUENOS AIRES — The city of Buenos Aires bares its beauty in multi-faceted ways, from the sensuous tango dancers luring tourists in the streets of Caminito, to the aroma of Porteño cuisine that triggers an immediate appetite to anyone walking by during lunch or dinner time. […]
Wushu master brings martial arts and Chinese culture to Buenos Aires
By Carolyn Chen & Tianqi Gou Medill Reports BUENOS AIRES — Chen Min, a former national Wushu champion in China, opened a martial arts school in Buenos Aires 11 years ago. In this video story, we see the ways Chen Min tries to create a special chemistry between Chinese and Argentine cultures — at her […]
Jail bond reform heats up as Illinois lawmakers push for abolishment
By Nadia Adams Medill Reports On this episode of Medill Newsmakers, Illinois lawmakers are considering doing away with cash bond to reduce incarceration rates and reach economic fairness for low-income individuals charged with relatively minor offenses. Opponents argue that if this law is imposed it leaves domestic violence victims at risk to be attacked again. […]
Art and technology in Chicago and beyond
by Cyan Zhong Medill Newsmakers What happens at the intersection of art and technology? Chicago has the answer. From the world’s largest public art display, a tech-infused interactive museum to educating the future generation of artists, the windy city provides a rich cultural landscape for interdisciplinary creativity. On this episode of Medill Newsmakers, we explore […]
In the ‘City of Neighborhoods,’ a summer of fun
By Ebony JJ Curry Medill Reports Chicago is the third largest city in America and also one of the most visited. Last year, nearly 58 million people visited the Windy City, according to a projection by Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism bureau. Those numbers peak in the summer months. And for locals who endure the […]
Despite launch delay, NU undergrads plow ahead with redesign for NASA freeze-casting experiments
By Lauren Robinson Medill Reports Young scientists are racing to deliver by October a satellite payload of instruments to test freeze-casting — technology that could free space explorers from expensive, time-consuming deliveries of supplies from Earth. The team of Northwestern University undergraduates building the innards for a small satellite called a “CubeSat” missed the launch […]