Northwestern’s all-pink coed a cappella group, X-Factors, is home to a unique group of students passionate about music. The X-Factors was formed in 2001 by a small group of students to “produce amazing music while maintaining the individuality of each member,” according to the group’s website. “In X-Factors, we have anything from theater to biomedical.
Medill sophomore Angela Zhang said she never imagined committing to singing when she arrived at Northwestern. But watching the Treblemakers, NU’s premier East Asian-interest acapella group, perform at Rock the Lake last year changed her mind. Zhang said growing up, she did not see much Asian American representation in music. “There was something really special.
The Evanston Reparations Committee hosted a town hall Saturday to address concerns about the city’s reparations program. The committee invited Buddhist Council of the Midwest President Rev. Asayo Horibe, local historian Dino Robinson and Reparations Committee member Ald. Bobby Burns (5th) to answer questions about the reparations program at the Second Baptist Church. Evanston’s Restorative.
Evanston might start rolling its reparations payments out faster after a motion introduced at Wednesday’s Reparations Committee meeting. Instead of releasing the payments in intervals, the committee hopes to provide them to the next reparations recipients as soon as it gets enough money from tax revenue to do so. Committee member and former Ald. Robin.
Sixteen Evanston faith leaders gathered in Fountain Square Monday afternoon to sign a formal commitment to support the local reparations fund. “We as religious leaders have moral suasion and responsibility to lead in this area by figuring out a process of reconciliation and atonement, and to help them to lead our community towards healing,” Beth.