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‘Our students are carrying weight that is more than books into classrooms’: End Hate at ND panelists discuss University life

Tom Naatz | Friday, February 21, 2020

A group of students, administrators and faculty gathered for “Identity and Belonging: Highlighting Diverse Voices in the Classroom and Dorm,” a panel discussion about diversity and inclusion Notre Dame on Thursday evening in Bond Hall. Sponsored by End Hate at ND, the Film, Television and Theater Department and the Gender Studies Program, the panel featured

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Naaj Harrabi Brings Fresh, Unfiltered Humor in ‘Alien in the Basilica’

Abigail Wager | Thursday, February 20, 2020

The lights of Washington Hall dimmed and a single spotlight illuminated two handmade cutouts of the Basilica and the Golden Dome that sat at the back of the stage. As Najmeddine “Naaj” Harrabi, ND Class of 2019, took his place center stage during the debut of his stand up comedy show “Alien in the Basilica”

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White poverty in Floyd County, Kentucky

Brennan Buhr | Monday, February 10, 2020

It is an abiding truth that poverty cuts across racial lines in the United States. Relatedly, a recent editorial decrying “whiteness” in our nation simply misses the mark. Let me backtrack a bit. Until the summer of 2017, I had always considered poverty only in the abstract. As a child and well into my teenage

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Scholars discuss the Thomas Jefferson conundrum, exploring his thoughts on slavery, race

Tom Naatz | Friday, January 24, 2020

As the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson has always occupied a high place in the American pantheon. But Jefferson is also a complicated and controversial figure in American life: how can the United States reconcile the man’s words — “all men are created equal” — with the reality that he owned

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“With Voices True”: Klau Center aims to collect race narratives through online platform

John Salem | Wednesday, January 22, 2020

On Tuesday, the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights held an event in Hesburgh Library to launch “With Voices True,” an online platform designed to collect the stories of numerous Notre Dame students, staff and faculty. The Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights is an institution based out of the Keough School of

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Students discuss intersectionality between race, gender, sexuality

Serena Zacharias | Friday, November 15, 2019

With the aim of creating a space for vulnerable dialogue regarding questions of gender, race and sexual orientation, a number of groups on campus came together Thursday night to sponsor the second “Let’s Talk About Race” discussion in Geddes coffee house. In order to facilitate small group discussion, organizers prepared a set of questions to

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Response to BridgeND’s ‘Cultural Colonialism’

Katie Hieatt | Thursday, October 17, 2019

I am writing in response to BridgeND’s Viewpoint, “Cultural Colonialism,” published Monday. I disagreed with several of the premises in the article, but I want to focus on one aside that was particularly inappropriate. When criticizing the romanticism of Native American groups, the author wrote: “Those same people [liberals] are all too willing to ignore

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Event fosters racial dialogue on campus

Alexandra Muck | Thursday, September 26, 2019

As part of Race Relations Week, Student Government hosted the event “Let’s Talk about Race” on Wednesday evening. The occasion featured a brief introduction by senior Nick Ottone, student government director of University policy, to frame and conversation, and then students had small group discussions led by a student facilitator. Senior Katie Hieatt, one of

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‘Diversity and Inclusion Conference’ to explore social issue

Genevieve Redsten | Friday, September 6, 2019

Members of the tri-campus community will join together Friday in conversation at the “2019 Diversity and Inclusion Conference” at the Morris Inn from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.. The conference is open to students, staff and faculty, and will explore ideas about race, gender, sexual orientation and identity. Eric Love, director of staff diversity and

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‘Notre Dame: Unfiltered’ presents monologues and advertises campus resources

Nora McGreevy | Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Each spring for the past seven years, through a series of performed, anonymous monologues, Notre Dame’s “Show Some Skin” has provoked and encouraged its audiences to reflect on issues of identity and difference, especially as they intersect with race, gender, class, sexual violence, LGBTQ+ life and mental health. Yet as Samuel Jackson, a junior who

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