Actions for Racial Justice at Notre Dame

The Notre Dame Gender Studies Program affirms and supports our Black students, faculty, and staff in their efforts to transform our campus’s racial politics. We stand in solidarity with communities of color and indigenous people, as well as movements against racism, colonization, and state violence worldwide. We are committed to the intersectional study of gender and sexuality that identifies, examines, and challenges injustice while imagining and creating better futures that serve the common good.

The Gender Studies Program is an institutional member of the National Women's Studies Association, which issued a strong Statement in Support of Black Lives and Protests against Police and State Violence on June 4, 2020.

Notre Dame student initiatives and calls to action

• Collaboration of Black student clubs at Notre Dame, "Statement and Call to Action" (June 5, 2020)

• ND Black Student Association and College Democrats, "Joint Statement on the Murder of George Floyd" (June 1, 2020)

• Wabruda, "Statement on Behalf of the Current and Alumni Wabruda Community" (June 9, 2020)

• Black Law Students Association, Statement from BLSA President Naomi Price (June 10, 2020)

• Statements from individual student-athletes (from June 12, 2020)

• "Reparations and Reconciliation at Notre Dame: Opening and Framing the Discussion" (January 22, 2020)

 

Alumni initiatives and calls to action

• Notre Dame Black Alumni Appeal (change.org petition, June 2020)

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Kroc Institute for International Peace panel discussion: "Race, Violence, Protest, and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice"
Summary of event, with links to resources mentioned by the panelists.