NIU has faced a lot of misfortunes over the past several years: the Feb. 14 shootings, the Antinette "Toni" Keller incident, a shooting outside of Stevenson last year, the football player who was recently shot. Despite all of this, I still believe that...

If my picture was removed from this column, would you know I was African-American simply from the name, Taurean? Surely you would think I was black if my name was DeShawn. According to the book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side...

Slavery never ended; it just put on a new face. There are an estimated 27 million people worldwide subjected to modern-day slavery, better known as human trafficking. Thanks to the collaborative efforts of NIU's Wesley Foundation and the Atheists, Agnostics...