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On December 1, 2021, Loyola University Maryland launched a task force with a mission to initiate and guide a university-wide examination of Loyola’s connections to slavery and its ongoing legacies. These legacies include, but are not limited to, the broader experience of Black persons at Loyola and Loyola’s contributions to efforts promoting racial justice on campus, in Baltimore, and across the country.

In launching the task force, interim Loyola president Amanda M. Thomas, Ph.D. and incoming Loyola president Terrence M. Sawyer, J.D. wrote, “History is an evolving understanding of our past, and we recognize the need to research this more deeply. As a university, we must investigate and identify how Loyola’s history might have connected to the profits of slavery so we can address those issues and move forward together as a community.”