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Just like with any voting bloc, there's still a vast array of diverging opinions, ideologies and issues that are important among Black voters in races. ....
Just like with any voting bloc, there s still a vast array of diverging opinions, ideologies and issues that are important among Black voters in races. ....
The challenges of the last several years, including the upheaval of COVID-19 and the anti-racism movement that followed George Floyd’s murder, have had profound consequences for American theater. In a recent conversation with Yale SOM, three Yale alumni in the industry offered their perspectives on what comes next. ....
July 12, 2021 In the fall of 2019, then-senior Dana Pepowski (Communication â20) sought help from AccessibleNU after symptoms of her chronic illnesses began to worsen. The accessibility counselor she worked with was the first person at Northwestern, and in her life, to ever validate her accessibility needs and illnesses, which are not obviously detectable. Pepowski said she had very little success in receiving accommodations from school leadership. She has numerous chronic illnesses â including gastroparesis, colonic dysmotility and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome â all of which can cause physical pain or fatigue, impacting her daily functions. Pepowski said she would often wake up in the morning with chronic pain. Some nights, she wouldnât sleep at all due to the pain. She said she needed flexibility to miss class or rehearsals when the pain reached an unbearable level. ....
Casting call from Wirtz raises questions on racism in theatre On April 28, the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts sent out a casting call to their email list. The call listed 15 available roles, but only one, at the very bottom, was for a woman of color who the call noted had to be “sensual.” This casting call is neither atypical for the theatre industry as a whole, nor at Northwestern. The Wirtz Center sends out casting calls for both theatrical and outside films or projects nearly every other week. When Communication senior Alessandra Hernández received the April 28 call, she said she scanned the email for a role she could fill when she saw the listing for any woman of color who is “fiery.” For Hernández, the casting call suggested Wirtz didn’t care whether she was Black or Latinx, because they just needed their “token person of color.”. ....