NAACP president and CEO speaks at ND Notre Dame hosts Black Excellence dinner with Derrick Johnson as part of Walk the Walk week

By BELLA LAUFENBERG notre dame news editor

on Thursday evening, hundreds of notre dame students, staff and faculty weathered the northern indiana winter to gather in the morris inn smith ballroom.

From the other side of the nation, president and ceo of the national association for the advancement of colored people derrick Johnson and other activists traveled to join them.

Together, they all joined in a celebration of black excellence as one of the final events of notre dame’s annual walk the walk week.

a lthough the goal of the week has been to consider realistic