All W.K. Kellogg Foundation staff and contractors are invited to join facilitated racial healing conversations on the National Day of Racial Healing 2024. This event will be facilitated by the National Equity Project and will give staff the opportunity to recommit to or to launch their racial healing and racial equity journeys.
This event will showcase an appreciation for caregivers worldwide!
The Region 8 Community Action Partnership / RPIC will be holding a virtual racial healing circle as part of national events talking place on the 2024 National Day of Racial Healing. Join facilitators from Community Action Partnership of Utah and Colorado Community Action Association as we deepen relationships with one another, listen to each other's stories, and value our shared humanity.
WHAT IS RACIAL HEALING?
The W.K Kellog Foundation defines Racial Healing as:
"Racism affects all of us where we live, learn, work and play. We experience these effects when we take our children to school, when we apply for jobs, when we try to rent or buy a home, when we shop, when we interact with the police and more. Racism can affect us both as individuals and within our systems and institutions. It affects our ability to know, relate to and value one another. Systemically, it can be one of the biggest obstacles to solving the challenges we face in our communities because it often keeps us apart.
Racial healing recognizes the need to acknowledge and tell the truth about past wrongs created
by individual and systemic racism and address the present consequences. It is a process and tool
that can facilitate trust and build authentic relationships that bridge divides created by real and
perceived differences. We believe it is essential to pursue racial healing prior to doing change
making work in a community. Because, before you can transform systems and structures, you
must do the people work first."
RACIAL HEALING CIRCLES…
• are experiences that engage the heart
• require the heart to be open and expansive
• reaffirm the humanity in all of us
• acknowledge that unconscious bias lives in all of us
• are the spiritual work of affirming and loving ourselves
• acknowledge (by “listening”) the harms of the past through people’s stories
This virtual event will last approximately two hours. Participants are expected to engage (this is not an event that can passively listened to in the background), turn on their video cameras, turn off other distractions (emails, phone calls, and honor the touchstones that create a safe space for connection.
Virtual seats are limited. Because of the limited size, we request you only sign up if can attend and fully participate.
I am interested in exploring and sharing our personal roles in pursuing racial justice in our own lives in in our community.
DC Unity and Justice Fellowship is hosting our annual MLK Jr. Event on Sunday, January 14th at First Rock Baptist Church located 4630 Alabama Ave SE, Washington, DC 20019 from 3:00pm – 5:00pm.
The Office of Equity and Human Rights and the Iowa City Public Library (ICPL) will host a community screening of The Road to Justice to recognize National Day of Racial Healing, on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. The event will take place from 6-7:30 p.m. in ICPL Meeting Room A. The screening will be followed by a facilitated discussion led by Dr. Negus Sankofa Imhotep.
The Road to Justice
The Road to Justice follows two groups on a civil rights tour through the American South as they reckon with our painful legacy of racial injustice. The first, a group of predominantly Black middle school students from Chicago: and the second, a group of older Americans who lived through the 1960s Civil Rights era. They come face-to-face with the leaders and everyday heroes whose courage and perseverance paved the way for future generations. View the trailer here.
Our organization will include a conversation about this National Day of Racial Healing during our all-staff meeting on January 19th. We may or may not watch a brief video followed by a discussion about what we can do individually, and collectively, to contribute to universal racial healing.
On January 16, 2024, the Raleigh Human Relations Commission is inviting residents of Raleigh to an uplifting evening to come together, contribute to a collective art project, and participate in healing discussions with their neighbors on how we recognize and appreciate each other.
In a county, Orleans, NY, in which religious congregations were divided in support or against the abolition of slavery before the United States Civil War, the first, now Annual, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Commemorative Celebration and Lecture was held on January 13, 2023. This year this Celebration will be followed by a Film Series, "Eyes on the Prize", sharing the roots and processes of the Civil Rights Movement, and preparing the way for ecumenical and interfaith conversations on "Compassion in Community: a Response to Hatred", part of the national and international healing responses to the current crisis in Israel/Palestine.
We are hosting a discussion on the meaning of a National Day of Racial Healing and what developing an action plan for Clinton, Missouri.