COMMEMORATION OF THE ENSLAVED
On April 30, 2024, Wake Forest University community members gathered at Wait Chapel to commemorate the enslaved individuals who worked for or were sold to benefit the institution that would become Wake Forest University.
During the event, faculty, students, and alumni read aloud the names of those enslaved individuals.
Originally called the Reading of the Names Ceremony and now referred to as the Commemoration of the Enslaved, the event was started by students and faculty in Wake Forest’s Department of Sociology and School of Divinity, who on May 7, 2019, gathered for the first time on the steps of Wait Chapel to remember the enslaved. The event is now annually sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion under the leadership of TaShaun L. Elliott and with collaboration from campus partners. The Slavery, Race, and Memory Project guides the research, preservation, and communication of an accurate depiction of the University’s relationship to slavery and its implications across Wake Forest’s history and the history of the United States.
You can access the recording of the event as well as footage from previous years here .
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ODI ANNUAL REPORT | JULY 1, 2023 - JUNE 30, 2024
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