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Anti-Racism Statements--Department Of Communication

June 19, 2020 Communication

Anti-Racism Statements--Department Of Communication

Department pledges to act against Black and African-American racism on campus and in the community.

The Department of Communication pledges to deliberate and act against Black and African-American racism on our campus and in our communities. The following two statements reinforce our social justice principles and provide a path forward in taking principled actions to erode such systemic racism. One was drafted by tenure-track faculty members in the Department and the second was drafted by graduate students and signed by a diversity of community members. The graduate students invite people to add their names to their statement.
We also would like to invite our undergraduate students to sign the graduate student statement and to notify Dr. Catherine Knight Steele (cksteele@umd.edu), Assistant Professor in Communication, if they would like to join the Department's Black Communication Society.