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Check back next October for more information on Black Lives Matter Day

Fifth Annual Black Lives Matter (BLM) Day

Holistic Wellness and Health Promotion: self, family and community

The event was held on Monday, November 4, 2024, 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM in the Campus Center Ballrooms at UMass Boston. 

This event will featured a panel of health researchers and practitioners, a keynote speaker over lunch with remarks from the Chancellor, and a health fair. BLM Day is open to the entire campus community. For more information, please email blacklife@umb.edu.

We recognize that social and racial justice require healthy people and communities, and that our individual and collective health require that our homes, neighborhood, work, and school environments be health-promoting. BLM Day 2024 will empower participants to take actions to improve their individual wellness and family health, and to advocate and organize for improved social, physical, and administrative systems that affect our health.

In November 2020, Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco declared that UMass Boston will observe Black Lives Matter (BLM) Day every year on the first Monday of November. This day at UMass Boston is an integral step toward enhancing our campus environment and our commitment to advocating for racial justice locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. As an institutional leader for equity and social justice, UMass Boston understands BLM as a human rights issue and declaration. Thus, the establishment of BLM Day serves as a model for all colleges and universities to follow as an example of transformational equity-minded leadership in action. BLM Day is dedicated to those who have been unjustly harmed and/or killed as a result of police brutality, acts of anti-Black racism, and systemic oppression.

Black Lives Matter 2024 Agenda  |  Details on Speakers