Cardinals to Attend ACC Unity Tour
July 10, 2024 | Community & Culture
The four-day event will take place in Charleston, S.C.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Atlantic Coast Conference is sponsoring a Unity Tour event this weekend and the Cardinals will be well represented. A total of four student-athletes and two staff members will attend the four-day event that begins on Thursday, July 11 down in Charleston, S.C.
Football student-athlete TJ Quinn Jr., women's soccer student-athlete Maya Maxwell, cross country student-athlete Zach Crader and women's basketball student-athlete Olivia Cochran will be attending along with Associate AD for Inclusive Excellence Derek Cowherd and Vice President of Community Engagement Dr. Douglas Craddock Jr.
The tour is part of the ACC's commitment to supporting student-athletes through meaningful educational opportunities, including in the area of social justice. This annual event is a component of the league's social justice platform, ACC UNITE. This year, the ACC Unity Tour is in collaboration with Ally and Gatorade – official sponsors of the ACC and supporters of league initiatives. In addition, the Capital One Orange Bowl, which continues to be a significant league partner, is once again supporting the event as they have since its inception.
The theme of the tour is Journey of Resilience: Cultivating History through Community, Culture, and Cuisine. Participants of this tour will engage in an immersive educational experience in "The Holy City." Among the planned activities, the attendees will visit key sites throughout the city such as the Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, the International African American Museum and the McLeod Plantation Historic Site. The trip will be highlighted with a Gullah Geechee Tour, which offers a one-of-a-kind experience for locals, tourists, and anyone interested in true slave history in Charleston.
One of the many significant activities during this year's Unity Tour will be the opportunity to visit Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church - the oldest black church in the southern United States. On June 17, 2015, it was the site of the Charleston church massacre where nine people were killed, and one was injured, during a Bible study at the church. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting at a place of worship in U.S. history and it remains the deadliest mass shooting in South Carolina history.
This marks the third ACC Unity Tour, which began in 2022 when ACC student-athletes and administrators visited Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, for an immersive journey to one of the centers of the civil rights movement. In 2023, the event was held in Washington, D.C., with the attendees visiting key sites of the civil rights movement and engaging in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Title IX.
ACC UNITE is part of the ACC's Committee for Racial and Social Justice (CORE - Champions of Racial Equity) C.O.R.E was created in June 2020 to support the ACC's commitment to social justice and racial equity. Members of C.O.R.E. include conference office staff members and campus representatives from each of the league's 15 institutions. C.O.R.E.'s mission is to promote and encourage inclusion, racial equity and social justice through education, partnerships, engagement and advocacy.
Football student-athlete TJ Quinn Jr., women's soccer student-athlete Maya Maxwell, cross country student-athlete Zach Crader and women's basketball student-athlete Olivia Cochran will be attending along with Associate AD for Inclusive Excellence Derek Cowherd and Vice President of Community Engagement Dr. Douglas Craddock Jr.
The tour is part of the ACC's commitment to supporting student-athletes through meaningful educational opportunities, including in the area of social justice. This annual event is a component of the league's social justice platform, ACC UNITE. This year, the ACC Unity Tour is in collaboration with Ally and Gatorade – official sponsors of the ACC and supporters of league initiatives. In addition, the Capital One Orange Bowl, which continues to be a significant league partner, is once again supporting the event as they have since its inception.
The theme of the tour is Journey of Resilience: Cultivating History through Community, Culture, and Cuisine. Participants of this tour will engage in an immersive educational experience in "The Holy City." Among the planned activities, the attendees will visit key sites throughout the city such as the Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, the International African American Museum and the McLeod Plantation Historic Site. The trip will be highlighted with a Gullah Geechee Tour, which offers a one-of-a-kind experience for locals, tourists, and anyone interested in true slave history in Charleston.
One of the many significant activities during this year's Unity Tour will be the opportunity to visit Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church - the oldest black church in the southern United States. On June 17, 2015, it was the site of the Charleston church massacre where nine people were killed, and one was injured, during a Bible study at the church. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting at a place of worship in U.S. history and it remains the deadliest mass shooting in South Carolina history.
This marks the third ACC Unity Tour, which began in 2022 when ACC student-athletes and administrators visited Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, for an immersive journey to one of the centers of the civil rights movement. In 2023, the event was held in Washington, D.C., with the attendees visiting key sites of the civil rights movement and engaging in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Title IX.
ACC UNITE is part of the ACC's Committee for Racial and Social Justice (CORE - Champions of Racial Equity) C.O.R.E was created in June 2020 to support the ACC's commitment to social justice and racial equity. Members of C.O.R.E. include conference office staff members and campus representatives from each of the league's 15 institutions. C.O.R.E.'s mission is to promote and encourage inclusion, racial equity and social justice through education, partnerships, engagement and advocacy.
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