This year marks the sixth annual campus-wide observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Walk the Walk Week, a week-long series of University and department sponsored events designed to help us consider how we—both individually and collectively—might take an active role in making Notre Dame even more welcoming and inclusive. University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. invites you to participate in one or more of the week's offerings. All are welcome!
This year, thanks to a proposal originally developed by Student Government, Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be a University holiday for students, faculty, and staff. Walk the Walk Week will be held in the week following MLK Day from January 17 - 23, 2022.
Information about Walk the Walk Week events, including those campus departments and groups planning and sponsoring each event, can be found below.
To submit an event for inclusion on the site, please email president@nd.edu.
Main Building Rotunda
The Notre Dame community is invited to a Candlelight Prayer Service to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. King and to reflect on how we can - individually and collectively - address racism and inequality, and build a community that is welcoming and inclusive.
In honor of the 75th anniversary of Frazier Thompson, the first Black student-athlete, competing in a varsity sport, track & field, at the University of Notre Dame, the series "Signed, the Irish" shares the stories and experiences of Black student-athletes. These installments celebrate 75 years of Black student-athletes’ academic, athletic and postgraduate impact on the University and broader community.
Black@ND is a talk show created and co-hosted by Emorja Roberson, Euda Fils, Daut'e Martin, and Blake Woods. It seeks to be a forum for an open and honest conversation that gives greater visibility to the experience of black students, faculty, staff, and alumni at the University of Notre Dame. Its purpose is to foster constructive self-criticism and awareness within the University community in order to contribute to the University’s mission to promote a spirit of diversity and inclusion.
As the national conversation about race and policing took shape over the summer of 2020, questions began surfacing about how police departments would respond. At Notre Dame, they were already working on an answer. With guests Keri Kei Shibata, Chief, Notre Dame Police Department; Mike Seamon, Vice President for Campus Safety and University Operations; and Matty Aubourg '21, Frontline ND and Vice President of Multicultural Pre-Health Society
In partnership with the John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy and University of Notre Dame Archives, the Klau Center seeks to give voice to the Notre Dame community on issues of race and racial identity. Through written, spoken, or visual stories, our community reflects on how we experience race, how it shapes our lives, and how we navigate relationships within it.
Retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page, ND '67, joined G. Marcus Cole, the Joseph A. Matson Dean of Notre Dame Law School for a conversation on Jan. 18. They discussed the challenges facing the country and Page provided advice for making society more inclusive.
This year, since we are not able to gather in person, we encourage you to take a few moments to watch this video, and to join us in prayer and reflection as Walk the Walk Week begins and we mark the first Sunday of Lent.
