Walk the Walk

Modern Women’s Prints includes over thirty works drawn from the permanent collection of the Snite Museum, some of which have never been on public view in the Museum. The selected prints are by female artists whose styles are drawn from many cultural traditions, and reflect the full array of printmaking techniques. Among the artists represented are Jennifer Bartlett, Deborah Muirhead Dancy, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Koo Kyung Sook, and Emmi Whitehorse.

This exhibit runs from January 14th through March 18th.

As part of South Bend’s 32nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration and Notre Dame’s Walk the Walk Week, this screening will allow for a community exploration of the pivotal role historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have played over the course of 150 years in American history, culture, and identity. Directed by documentary filmmaker and MacArthur Genius Fellow Stanley Nelson, the film reveals the rich history of HBCUs and the power of higher education to transform lives and advance civil rights and equality in the face of injustice.

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To commemorate the life of Dr. King, the Notre Dame family is invited to a Candlelight Prayer Service on Monday, Jan. 15. Post-event (complimentary) late-night breakfast provided at South Dining Hall.

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Multicultural Student Programs and Services in partnership with the Center for Social Concerns and the Department of Africana Studies will welcome writer, activist, speaker, and filmmaker Bree Newsome to campus on Tuesday, Jan. 16. Ms. Newsome will facilitate a small student workshop about mindful protests before delivering a larger keynote address to the campus community.

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Social concerns seminars are academic courses that create opportunities for students to engage in social analysis, work with community partners around the country, and reflect on their experience and its impact on individuals and communities.

Attend an information session to learn more about the spring 2018 seminars.

Multicultural Student Programs and Services in partnership with the Center for Social Concerns and the Department of Africana Studies will welcome writer, activist, speaker, and filmmaker Bree Newsome to campus on Tuesday, Jan. 16. Ms. Newsome will deliver a keynote address to the campus community titled, "Tearing Hatred from the Sky." All are welcome to attend.

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Social concerns seminars are academic courses that create opportunities for students to engage in social analysis, work with community partners around the country, and reflect on their experience and its impact on individuals and communities.

Attend an information session to learn more about the spring 2018 seminars.

Please join the Department of Africana Studies panel discussion on fall break travel to Washington, D.C. to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The panel will include students and faculty. Refreshments available.

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This Learning Beyond the Classics Series offers the chance to view 14 films over the course of three months. The year 1968 stands as one of the most tumultuous in modern history. In the U.S., 1968 was marked by the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, by the escalation of the war in Vietnam, by protests in the streets and at national political conventions, and by an election that carried Richard Nixon back into power. Globally, civic protests in Paris nearly brought down the government, and the push against Soviet power created the Prague Spring, which ushered in political liberalization.

Media were intertwined with these events as media in various forms shifted radically. Television news in the U.S. expanded to 30 minutes and added color, and prime-time programs dramatized narratives that incorporated the civil rights movement and other social changes. In Hollywood, the studio system and decency codes that dominated American cinema since the 1930s dissolved as independent producers and documentarians pioneered new forms of storytelling and visual representation.

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Social concerns seminars are academic courses that create opportunities for students to engage in social analysis, work with community partners around the country, and reflect on their experience and its impact on individuals and communities.

Attend an information session to learn more about the spring 2018 seminars.

Honor the life and legacy of Dr. King with a momentous community celebration. Join a unifying drum circle, talk with members of the community about their lives and the role that art plays in them, create a work of art that will bring beauty and healing into the world, and learn more about the history of and resources in your community.

Filmed with vérité intimacy for almost a decade, this documentary is a longitudinal portrait of an American family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, parents Christopher "Quest" Rainey, and his wife, Christine'a "Ma Quest" Rainey, raise a family while navigating the poverty and strife that grips their neighborhood. They nurture a community of artists in their basement home music studio, but even this creative sanctuary can't always keep them safe from both local and more global pains. Epic in scope and seen by some as an American Apted film or a documentary parallel to Boyhood, the film is a vivid illumination of race and class in America, and a time-lapse picture of President Obama’s time in the White House.

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ND students are invited to attend a grand opening event to celebrate the new Duncan Student Center from 8:30 p.m. to midnight. The event is being held in collaboration with Walk the Walk Week, and will feature a variety of multicultural student group performances and instructional entertainment in addition to taste testings, giveaways and facility tours. 

Join Professor Mark Sanders of English and Africana Studies for a discussion of Carrie Mae Weems' 2014 print Untitled (Listening Devices). After the discussion, continue the conversation over lunch from Jimmy Johns in the atrium. 

The Professors Pick series is sponsored by the Snite Museum Student Advisory Group to bring students, faculty, art, and ideas together.

Over the last year, it seems that we experienced a more explicit, expansive attempt to revive explicit racism in our politics, our media, and our interpersonal relations than we’ve seen in decades. The reality of racism in America and its pernicious effects have been revealed once again. African-Americans, Muslim Americans, Latinos, Immigrants, Jewish Americans and many others have found themselves directly under attack interpersonally, institutionally, and sometimes violently.

However, this expansive effort at renewed exclusion may have a silver lining: solidarity. From the Women’s March, to the rise in local social movements, to interfaith solidarity efforts like Moral Mondays in North Carolina, coalitional organizations like the Stand As One Alabama Coalition in Birmingham, and resistance efforts by progressive mayors and city councils against political attacks on their residents, many Americans are coming to see their fates as tied like never before. Drawing from her own research on the rise of multiracial coalitions and activism in the South in a context of renewed anti-immigrant politics, Jennifer A Jones (Department of Sociology and Institute for Latino Studies) discusses the importance of political race and minority linked fate, the promise of a new civil rights agenda, the effectiveness of intersectional activism among the youth, and new pathways to peace and progress emerging at the local and state level.

Sponsored by Center for Social Concerns, part  "Living the Challenges of Peace" theme for 2017-18 academic year.  Simple lunch provided.

Winner of the prestigious Olivier Award for Best New Play, The Mountaintop imagines what happened inside the Lorraine Motel’s room 306 the night before April 4, 1968. In the expert hands of L.A. Theatre Works and an experienced touring cast, Katori Hall’s fictional reimagining begins in Memphis in April 1968, as King finishes delivering his impassioned “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. Exhausted, he retires to room 306 at the Lorraine Motel, where he encounters a young hotel maid with whom he forges an unexpected relationship. During a conversation that ranges from the personal to the political, King finds himself confronting his destiny and the fate of the very nation to which he’s devoted his life.

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Led by Kelly Morgan, founder, and director of local dance and theater company UZIMA! and master African drummer James Riley ’94 this popular event celebrates wholeness, joy, purpose, and life.

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Sunday Family Films presents this Disney instant classic that has been heralded as the studio’s return to 2D animation and, most notably, the inclusion of an African-American princess (a first in the Disney pantheon). Hardworking and ambitious, Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) dreams of one day opening the finest restaurant in New Orleans. Her dream takes a slight detour when she meets Prince Naveen (Bruno Campos), who has been turned into an amphibian by the evil Dr. Facilier. Mistaking her for a princess and hoping to break the spell, Naveen plants a kiss on Tiana -- with unintended results. The pair the work together on an adventure through the bayous to seek the help of a powerful priestess.

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The third annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Luncheon, sponsored by the Office of the President and the Oversight Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, is an opportunity for campus-wide conversation. Join students, faculty, and staff at this free but ticketed event. This year, former Student Body President, Corey Robinson, and his father, former NBA star and philanthropist, David Robinson, are keynote speakers. Corey will interview his father in a fireside chat format, exploring the family's motivations for service and sharing insights on how they have worked to serve their communities to make a difference.

Faculty and staff will receive information regarding ticket distribution from their department leaders. Students will be able to pick up tickets at the LaFortune Box Office during the week of January 15. There will be shuttles available for transportation to/from the luncheon.

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Members of the Notre Dame community — students, faculty and staff — who are not able to attend the campus-wide luncheon at the Joyce Center are invited to gather with friends and colleagues for lunch in the campus dining halls to continue the day’s conversations. Lunch is complimentary from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with a Notre Dame ID.

After the MLK Celebration Luncheon, stop by the Snite Museum to explore photographs of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and critical moments of the Civil Rights Movement. The photographs reflect the movement's participants’ struggle, courage, and hopefulness. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described this dynamic as having the faith “to rise from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope” in his October 1963 speech on the Notre Dame campus. Decades later these photographs continue to resonate with, in the words of Dr. King, “the challenges we face” in the ongoing pursuit of a more just society.

These works of art by celebrated photographers dedicated to recording history in the making - including Charles Moore, Dan Budnik, Danny Lyon, and others - will be on temporary view as part of the University's Walk the Walk Week events.

Find new ways to get involved in the South Bend community by connecting with local not-for-profit organizations and service & social action clubs. Learn more and engage in issues such as immigration, sustainability, women's care, homelessness, education, hunger, and health care.