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Emma Duffy | Friday, March 18, 2022
Women’s History Month is seeing some changes on the Notre Dame campus this year. A club on campus, Shades of Ebony, was founded in 2002 as an outlet for all women, especially women of color, to come together in a safe space. Each year, the club has put on a Women’s Week to commemorate powerful
Kathryn Muchnick | Wednesday, March 16, 2022
“Race is, and has always been, the oldest wedge issue in America,” journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said. Dissecting that issue has been the goal of her long-form New York Times project “The 1619 Project.” Hannah-Jones ’98 returned to Notre Dame on Tuesday evening to discuss the controversial “1619 Project” for the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics,
Layton Hall | Monday, August 31, 2020
New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones spoke about the foundations of her Pulitzer Prize-winning initiative, The 1619 Project, and the current movement for racial justice as part of the second installment of Notre Dame’s “Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary” series Friday. Hannah-Jones, a 1998 Notre Dame alumna, also discussed her time at the University during the
Maria Leontaras and Mariah Rush | Wednesday, August 12, 2020
When she was in fifth grade, Nikole Hannah-Jones came across a column that she thought was racist while reading her local newspaper. She wanted to speak out against the piece, so she wrote to the editor. That was the very first time Hannah-Jones’ work was published. This May, the Notre Dame alumna won the 2020