Dear Friends and Colleagues – The events of the past few weeks have brought sadness and outrage to communities across our nation. The senseless killing of black men and women demonstrates that as a nation, we need to make further and strong progress toward our aspirations of a diverse and inclusive society. The College of […]

Statement of Support Against Racism and Violence I am repulsed by the horrific deaths and injustices that the Black community continues to endure. Systemic racism, violence and oppression of People of Color must not be allowed to continue. I aspire to do more personally and within the Department to support our Black students and colleagues […]

As a community, we stand with those demanding justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and an end to the police brutality, systemic racism, and anti-black violence that led to their deaths and the deaths of so many others. We as a department refuse to be silent about hatred, racism, and violence against […]

Dear Colleagues – The pain, sorrow, and outrage of the last week in the United States has been profound. We are faced with yet another series of horrific events. The terrible, unwarranted death of George Floyd has again highlighted the long history of racial injustice in our country. I echo the statement of President Katsouleas […]

Public Statement on Anti-Black Violence* Africana Studies Institute (ASI), UConn, Storrs We live, seemingly, in unprecedented times. People face daily crises and agitation because of pandemic, economic insecurity, and floundering national leadership whose institutions and actions lean as much toward violence and inhumanity as they do ineptitude. Yet, as Africana Studies scholars who for decades […]

To my UConn family, students, staff and faculty: In the wake of recent events, I wanted to reach out to make sure we are in dialogue, despite our physical distance. The world suffered another immense loss of life with the unjust killing of George Floyd this past Memorial Day. His death is a tragedy of […]

Dear UConn Health family, On August 28 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C,. in front of 250,000 black and white people and delivered a speech titled “I Have a Dream.” He spoke of African Americans never being satisfied as long as they are “the victims of the […]

A message from the Directors of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center & Human Rights Institute Black lives matter. We share the grief, sadness, and anger at the loss of George Floyd, whose murder follows so closely on that of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many others. Each of their lives, like each and […]

Sent on behalf of Dean Kersaint: Dear Colleagues, As an African American woman and as the dean of the Neag School, I’ve been thinking about what I might say to the Neag School community at this time. I am struggling, so I decided to follow the advice that I often give to those with whom […]

Dear UConn Nation, The last several months have been wrought with disappointment and disruption due in large part to the scale and severity of a public health crisis that our country, and the world, have not experienced in a century. Disappointment and disruption have more recently transformed into exasperation and distress after the more recent, […]