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14 posts tagged "racial justice"

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Ministry workers speak on racial justice for Walk the Walk Week

Annemarie Foy | Tuesday, February 23, 2021

As one of the first Walk the Walk Week virtual events, the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion hosted “The Lamentations of Jeremiah: An Intergenerational Conversation on the Crises of Our Time” in honor of Black History Month Monday afternoon. Moderated by the Ansari Institute’s Charles Powell, the Zoom webinar featured panelists Rev. Dr.

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Walk the Walk Week to feature virtual panels, workshops reflecting on race

Siobhan Loughney | Monday, February 22, 2021

The University’s sixth annual Walk the Walk Week will feature panels from scholars, poets, theologians and students discussing racial biases, systemic racism, and other societal issues. Usually occurring the week of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, this year’s events will take place from Feb. 22 through Feb. 28. Members of the Notre Dame community

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Journalist speaks on experience covering Ferguson in racial justice lecture series

Trinity Reilly | Monday, February 22, 2021

Wesley Lowery, journalist at CBS and author of “They Can’t Kill Us All” spoke about the events at Ferguson as a part of the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights’ lecture series “Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary” Friday. Lowery said he was on the field at the beginning of the events at Ferguson, soon after

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Annual Mendoza, Deloitte Center Ethics Week focuses on empathy

Isabella Volmert | Monday, February 22, 2021

The 24th annual Ethics Week sponsored by the Mendoza College of Business and the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership concluded Friday after a week of panels, presentations and discussions focused around this year’s theme: Beginning with Empathy: Listening and Learning from Others.  The concept for this year’s theme emerged last summer in the

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‘Black history is American history’: Community discusses importance of Black History Month

Gabrielle Penna | Wednesday, February 17, 2021

In celebration of Black History Month, Notre Dame professors have pledged themselves to educate students of all studies on issues related to art, monuments and material culture, segregation and integration, civil rights, race and politics, race and ethnicity and race and human behavior. One of these professors, Dory Mitros Durham, associate director of the Klau

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Fordham University professor speaks on racial injustice in lecture series

John Salem | Monday, February 15, 2021

Fr. Bryan Massingale spoke on the role the Catholic Church plays in battling racial injustice during the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights’ lecture series “Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary” on Friday.  Massingale is a professor of theology and social ethics at Fordham University and a leader in the field of theological ethics. He opened

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Gender studies professor speaks on women’s roles in fight for peace

Genevieve Coleman | Thursday, October 22, 2020

The Saint Mary’s Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership (CWIL) hosted Notre Dame gender studies professor Ashley Bohrer who spoke in a presentation titled “Disturbing the Peace: A Feminist Defense of Conflict in a Time of Rebellion“ on Wednesday as a part of International Education Week. The talk was co-sponsored by the gender and women’s studies

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Lessons in solidarity and the common good from a virtual SSLP

Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, October 20, 2020

This summer, the six of us undergraduate students had the opportunity to participate in the Virtual Summer Service Corps through the Center for Social Concerns. We worked with Faith in Indiana, a coalition of faith leaders throughout Indiana that advocates for social justice and voter engagement, and NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby based in

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Activist Angela Davis addresses economic, racial inequalities in annual Hesburgh Lecture

Mia Moran | Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Author, professor and activist Dr. Angela Davis was the keynote speaker at the 27th Annual Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy Tuesday, which honors former University President and founder of the Kroc Institute Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh. During the virtual lecture, Davis discussed the struggles of economic, racial and gender justice. The panel included

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From the Archives: Reevaluating the racial justice of the Hesburgh administration

Evan McKenna, Jim Moster, Sarah Kikel and Adriana Perez | Monday, August 31, 2020

As the American civil rights movement enters periods of resurgence, Notre Dame often enters — and exits — the conversation by invoking a familiar image: former University President Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, hands interlocked with civil rights champion Martin Luther King Jr. at a 1964 rally. For many, the legacy of Fr. Hesburgh is inextricably linked

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