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-31 posts tagged "Civil Rights"
Letter to the Editor | Monday, September 30, 2019
Your homophobic discourse soiled my air supply your ivory tower theology slit my loved ones’ throats I’m trying to go to class without dead friends in my backpack just trying to touch my girl’s shoulder in the grass you want to un-affirm me to “lobotomize me with a crowbar” well the murdered trans angels (18
Patrick Witteman | Monday, January 21, 2019
For Walk the Walk week, the Snite Museum of Art has curated a small collection of Civil Rights photography that focuses on the life, death and impact of Martin Luther King Jr. The photographs include work by photojournalists Charles Moore, Dan Budnik and Ernest Withers, among others. While touring the collection, I met with David
Serena Zacharias | Friday, January 18, 2019
Notre Dame will kick off the fourth-annual Walk the Walk Week on Jan. 20 to encourage diversity and inclusion on campus with a series of events open to all members of the Notre Dame community. The week will begin with a candlelight prayer service in the Main Building Rotunda on Jan. 20 at 11 p.m.,
Gina Twardosz | Thursday, October 4, 2018
The Civil Rights Heritage Center hosted community members who gathered to hear monologues from Saint Mary’s students and faculty about the struggles marginalized groups have faced in the pursuit of liberation Wednesday night. Professors Stacy Davis, Phyllis Kaminski and Jamie Wagman read their monologues, as well as sophomores Zoe Ricker and Micaela Enright, juniors Jalyn
Maeve Filbin | Tuesday, August 21, 2018
This summer, Saint Mary’s sent four students and four student leaders to Washington, D.C. to participate in the 2018 Study of the U.S. Institutes, or SUSIs. While there, this group of English, communications, political science and global studies majors joined students from around the world in exploring American culture, history and policy. The SUSIs invite
Teagan Dillon | Tuesday, April 24, 2018
The differences between human rights and civil rights can be subtle. Defining and identifying these concepts can be a difficult task. Investigating this difference was the central topic during a five-week community engagement project with seventh and eighth grade students at Marshall Intermediate Center in South Bend. Led by three Notre Dame seniors and associate
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Thursday, April 5, 2018
Forty-eight years before former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeled in protest of police brutality in America during a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, John Carlos and Tommie Smith — who had just won bronze and gold medals respectively in the 200-meter race in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City — also
Maria Leontaras | Friday, February 9, 2018
Experience part of the past that affects the present through Mad River Theater Works’ latest production “Freedom Riders” at Saint Mary’s. The new play, written by Jeff Hooper, features original music by Grammy winner Bob Lucas, and tells the moving tale of what some view as one of the most influential portions of the Civil
Gina Twardosz | Thursday, November 16, 2017
On Wednesday night, Saint Mary’s professors and students presented and reflected on the life and work of Audre Lorde, a writer, feminist and civil rights activist. The presentation commemorated the 25th anniversary of Lorde’s death. Ann Marie Short, professor of English and gender and women’s studies, emphasized the key aspects of Lorde’s writings. “Lorde’s work demands
Ciara Hopkinson | Tuesday, January 24, 2017
The Snite Museum held a special exhibition on Monday afternoon of 17 photographs that capturing some of the touchstone moments of the Civil Rights movement as part of Notre Dame’s “Walk the Walk” Week. “On view are some of the seminal images that we have come to know as the images that tell the story