2025 2025
January 21

NATIONAL DAY OF RACIAL HEALING

The National Day of Racial Healing is a time to contemplate our shared values and create the blueprint together for #HowWeHeal from the effects of racism. Launched on January 16, 2024, it is an opportunity to bring ALL people together in their common humanity and inspire collective action to create a more just and equitable world.

Nationwide

Nationwide (Virtual)
January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025

Indiana

January 21, 2025

Louisiana

January 25, 2025

Maryland

January 15, 2025

Massachusetts

Michigan

January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025

Minnesota

December 14, 2024
January 20, 2025

North Carolina

January 21, 2025

Virginia

January 21, 2025

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Planning an event for National Day of Racial Healing? These guides provide ways to engage kids, professionals and policymakers in memorable events.

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This annual observance is hosted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) and was created with and builds on the work and learnings of the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) community partners. Fundamental to this day is a clear understanding that racial healing is at the core of racial equity. This day is observed every year on the Tuesday following Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.


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WHAT IS

RACIAL
HEALING

Racial healing is the experience shared by people when they speak openly and hear the truth about past wrongs and the negative impacts created by individual and systemic racism.

Racial healing helps to build trust among people and restores communities to wholeness, so they can work together on changing current systems and structures so that they affirm the inherent value of all people.

RACIAL
EQUITY

Racial equity is the condition where people of all races and ethnicities can live in a society where a person’s racial identity does not determine how they are treated nor predict life outcomes.

Achieving racial equity requires both systems transformation and racial healing.

Our partners at NBCUniversal are documenting powerful stories from communities across the country where people are working together to create lasting change. We invite you to watch the digital series “Changing the Narrative.”

This introductory episode hosted by Zinhle Essamuah features an exclusive interview with W.K. Kellogg Foundation President and CEO La June Montgomery Tabron on the origins of racial healing and the ongoing work required to achieve racial equity.

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