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UCI Black Thriving: Making a New Black History
UCI Black Thriving: Making a New Black History A message from Vice Chancellor Douglas M. Haynes, Dear campus community, I welcome you all to join me in commemorating February as…
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Daunte Wright – A Death in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota ♥ ★ ✚
Dear campus community, Daunte Wright joins a lengthening and disheartening list of unarmed Black people who have been killed in police custody. The time and place may be different, but…
UC President Michael V. Drake reflects on Black History Month ♥ ★ ✚
This Black History Month, UC President Michael V. Drake reflects on the Black workers, scholars, artists and activists who have propelled the University of California-and the world-forward and the work…
SCIENCE MAGAZINE | ‘A time of reckoning.’ How scientists confronted anti-Black racism and built community in 2020 ♥ ★ ✚
‘A time of reckoning.’ How scientists confronted anti-Black racism and built community in 2020 Science Magazine | December 21, 2020 One of those institutions is the University of California, Irvine,…
UCI Solidarity Statements
Change Aligns the UCI Police Department with the Campus Commitment to Inclusive Excellence
<<Back to Black Thriving Initiative Change Aligns the UCI Police Department with the Campus Commitment to Inclusive Excellence As the current national reckoning has underscored, policing is definitely a major…
Recognize and Interrupt Microagressions
<< Return to Change the Culture Recognize Microaggressions and the Messages They Send Racial Microaggressions as a Tool to Understand Everyday Racism in Academia Interrupting Microaggressions Racial Microaggressions – Annotated…
Office of Inclusive Excellence | Why Juneteenth Matters in 2020 ♥★✚
Dear campus community, Today the campus observes the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth or National Freedom Day. It refers to the date when enslaved Black men, women and children in the…
Office of Inclusive Excellence | Inclusive Excellence and the UCI Police Department ♥ ★ ✚
To the Anteater community: We are writing to announce several actions to further align the UCI Police Department with our commitment to inclusive excellence and confronting anti-Black racism. This commitment…
School of Humanities | Events this week on anti-blackness and racism ♥ ★ ✚
Events this week on anti-blackness and racism The events of the last two weeks following the police killing of George Floyd have galvanized ongoing protests and calls for action…
School of Medicine | Stand Against Racism: A Call-to-Action ♥ ★ ✚
Dear Community, Today, our hearts are broken. As two members of a small number of African-American faculty in the UCI School of Medicine, we find ourselves in tears yet again.…
School of Law | UCI Law Community Statement ♥★
Dear UCI Law Community, I have been ripped apart by the events of the past few weeks. Not because the issues are new, but precisely because they are not. I…
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory | Black Lives Matter | A message from Director Michael A. Yaasa, Ph.D. ♥★✚
Friends, We have watched in horror and grief as the events of the last few weeks transpired, exposing systematic anti-Black racism as persistent, pervasive, and lethal. It is a…
Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Science | An Act of Solidarity ♥ ★ ✚
Dear UCI community, I think we can all appreciate that this has been a difficult week. UC Irvine Health came together this afternoon to kneel for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. We…
UCI Libraries | Library Resources on Racism and Diversity
New Ebook Collection: Understanding and Combatting Racism The UCI Libraries stands in solidarity with the campus in its stance against anti-blackness, and as allies against racism. To support the campus educational…
UCI Cross-Cultural Center: Black Life is Sacred.
Black Life is Sacred. Our spirit is truly with all of our Black community members at this time. We mourn and grieve for the families and loved ones of George…