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 in 2017, it is an opportunity to bring ALL people together and inspire collective action to build common ground for a more just and equitable world.


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.


WHAT ISWHAT ISWHAT IS

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.

WHAT CAN I DO?

GET YOUR ACTION KITS!

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

NBC News embarked on a journey of discovery to learn how racism touches all of our lives, regardless of skin color or background and how we can start the process of healing.

NBC News traveled across the country listening to candid, raw and real conversations about race. The series hopes to challenge viewers to answer the question – what can you do to end racism?

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Alaska

Anchorage (Virtual)
January 16, 2024

Arizona

January 13, 2024
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Arkansas

February 8, 2024

California

Boulder Creek (Virtual)
January 16, 2024
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Sacramento (Virtual)
January 18, 2024
Los Angeles
November 13, 2023
Los Angeles
October 9, 2023
West Sacramento
January 16, 2024
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Hawaii

January 16, 2024
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Illinois

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Freeport (Virtual)
January 13, 2024
Chicago (Virtual)
January 16, 2024
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Macomb
January 23, 2024

Indiana

Michigan’s city
January 21, 2024

Iowa

January 16, 2024

Louisiana

January 18, 2024
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Maryland

Upper Marlboro
May 18, 2024
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Michigan

January 19, 2024
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Wyoming
January 16, 2024
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Detroit (Virtual)
January 16, 2024
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Minnesota

January 16, 2024
January 14, 2024
Minneapolis (Virtual)
January 16, 2024

Mississippi

Gulfport
December 9, 2023
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Missouri

April 7, 2024
Clinton
January 16, 2024

Montana

January 15, 2024

Nebraska

Nevada

January 27, 2024

New Jersey

New Mexico

Albuquerque
January 18, 2024
Albuquerque
January 15, 2024
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New York

January 16, 2024
Albany (Virtual)
December 16, 2023
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North Carolina

Haw River (Virtual)
January 16, 2024
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Charlotte
January 16, 2024
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Ohio

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Alliance
January 16, 2024
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Oklahoma

January 20, 2024

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

January 16, 2024
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South Carolina

January 16, 2024
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Tennessee

January 16, 2024
January 29, 2024
January 16, 2024

Utah

January 16, 2024

Wisconsin

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