Black Community Solidarity

Below you'll find our post category archive. Note that many titles will have , , and at the end of the text. These help identify pages, posts, and events representing our three core values: Community, Thriving, and Wellness. To learn more about this, read about our Action Plan. These also all help support our #ActForInclusion.

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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. We are filled with sadness, anger, and frustration. Emotions that truly are not served well by these words alone as we reflect on painful thoughts of the future and the safety of not only each of our Black sons and daughters, but also our colleagues, mentees, students and friends. As we experience the plague of racism in a form as palpable as the coronavirus pandemic, we acknowledge a key difference….

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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 am a Black, Korean, female dean. I have spent my entire career fighting for racial justice, for police reform, and for diversity, equity and inclusion. Both personally and professionally, I recognize that Anti-Blackness and racism (explicit, implicit, institutional, structural, and systemic) have existed for centuries in this country, too frequently aided by the force of law. I care very deeply about these issues. I have given them serious thought, not…

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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 fundamental issue that plagues our society and reminds us that our work is far from done. While we can look back on the progress made since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s, the senseless murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others remind us that we still have a long way to go to ensure that our society ceases to dehumanize…

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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 knelt at our desks, in clinic halls, on hospital wards, and outdoors. We all took a knee in solidarity, humility, and awareness. We came together in remembrance of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless others who lost their lives to racism in this country. We came together to declare Black Lives Matter. While today’s demonstration was powerful, tomorrow, and in the days thereafter, we must all work to ensure that the momentum…

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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 role and intellectual discourse on this timely topic, the Libraries offer a new ebook collection in OverDrive: Understanding and Combatting Racism. To access this collection, login with your UCInetID to read ebooks online, download titles to your device or read on your Kindle or ereader. Borrow up to five books at a time and select either 7 days or 14 days to borrow. Ebooks will be returned automatically, there is…

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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 Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery and acknowledge many local racist and anti-Black incidents that have not received the same amount of national attention. The movement for Black Liberation requires that each of us interrogate how deep-seated racism, anti-Blackness, systemic oppression and white supremacy are at the core of each incident leading to the loss of Black life. We must break these cycles of dominance and work diligently towards…

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UCI Health Affairs | A reaffirmation of our commitment to social justice and equity ♥ ★ ✚

A reaffirmation of our commitment to social justice and equity To our College of Health Sciences community, Recent national events compel us to consider the ongoing injustices that disproportionately affect communities of color and the unmet need to build respect and peace among all members of society. George Floyd’s death was not an isolated incident. It is instead a raw reminder of the terror that Black people have experienced in this country for over 400 years. To effectively address these issues, we must begin by acknowledging that racism exists and that the pain and trauma it causes have profound effects…

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School of Humanities | A message from Dean Tyrus Miller:

A message from Dean Tyrus Miller: Dear UCI School of Humanities faculty, staff, and students, I write, as dean, to express my outrage and sorrow for the violent and brutal death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. This was not an isolated incident by a rogue policeman nor a local event involving a badly governed police department. It was the latest in a nation-wide, decades-long pattern of police killings of black men and women, the deadly expression of institutionalized racism and anti-black fear and hatred, with deep roots in the history of…

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School of Medicine | Uncertainty and Unrest in Unprecedented Times ♥ ★ ✚

Dear friends and colleagues: Recent events have added to uncertainty and unrest in our country. So much is going on in our world today, and while we have heroes we can celebrate, sadly we are also seeing the worst side of our society, as incidents of racism, hate and xenophobia are pervasive and present in the everyday lives of many of our students, faculty, staff and those they love. This past week, the systemic challenges within many of our police departments across the country has become, yet again, very apparent. This is not a new problem, but one that we…

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UCI Health | UCI Health is committed to equality ♥ ★ ✚

  UCI Health is committed to equality Dear colleagues, Over the weekend, our nation was shaken by the violence following the senseless death of George Floyd. His death, and the deaths of others, are sad reminders that bigotry and racism are more prevalent in our society than we would like to admit. Racism is contrary to the oaths and moral responsibilities we accept as health professionals who have dedicated our lives to advancing the health of all, especially those living in vulnerable communities. Over the past three months, the coronavirus pandemic has exposed health inequities that disproportionately harm minority communities,…

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