On Sept. 15, Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, spoke at NEIU and gave the invaluable advice “not to prop your ladder against the wrong wall.” Before she appeared on stage, the atmosphere seemed to promise another boring and pompous event, as five minutes before it started there […]

The Independent has criticized the university administration for a “don’t make waves, don’t rock the boat” mentality. A mentality that often caused administrators to fear taking action to solve what might be universally accepted as a big problem. Finally there is one who has, for all the right reasons, rocked […]

Excellence. Access. Diversity. Community. This alluring promise that is NEIU finds today’s administrators scurrying to carry its proud banner as the Midwest’s Most Diverse University. As the higher-ups cling to this cherished title, few of us actually manage to walk away with a college diploma in our hands. Admittedly, hearing […]

Los Angeles-based artist and satirist Eduardo Lopez, known as cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz, continues to garner attention for his gripping political cartoons which demand equality and justice for immigrants, Latinos, and so-called minority communities. A son of Mexican immigrants, Alcaraz has drawn editorial cartoons for L.A. Weekly since 1992. He is […]