We invite you to join One Love Global on Tuesday, January 16 from 6:30-8pm for a conversation on our health as a society seven years since the 1st National Day of Racial Healing. How We Heal is an invitation to connect to the work of building stronger relationships, creating more humane policies and a collective commitment to truth-telling and accountability.

We are excited to share a vision for the civil rights legislation of our time – The Michigan BREATHE Act! We welcome you to join us and take action as a community co-sponsor. Learn about community healing circles and more ways to be a part of the transformation.

Register for the Zoom event: https://bit.ly/OLGNDRH2024

Collaborations between diverse communities can be incredibly beneficial, fostering unity, shared understanding, and mutual support. Through partnerships, different groups can pool resources, skills, and perspectives to address common challenges, promote inclusivity, and create stronger, more resilient communities. This can involve cultural exchanges, joint projects, advocacy efforts, or educational initiatives, all aimed at building bridges and enhancing the collective well-being of the entire community. We will discuss, plan, and most importantly schedule various events and programs that will bring our vision of a thriving collaborative community to fruition.

SUNY Plattsburgh is pleased to work with several collaborative partners to host the 2024 National Day of Racial Healing on the theme of "The Heart of Racial Equity Starts with Courage." There will be a variety of in-person and virtual events hosted on this day. All events are free and open to the public. Please review our schedule for additional information and to access Zoom links for events. For questions, please feel free to email diversity@plattsburgh.edu or call 518-564-5410.

Link to more information on sessions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GniZep7ktZkXt5uGYqb7Ixws9QqNvY22nigQxzrOMC4/edit#heading=h.s4188dlyxuq5

Join the Sloan Museum and the Community Foundation of Greater Flint for a special event in the Owning Our Truth, Embracing Our Change informational series. On January 17, at 10:00am at St. Michael's Conference Center, nationally-renowned speaker and author Rich Harwood brings his national civic campaign ("Enough. Time to Build.") to Flint for a special keynote address followed by audience Q&A. This event is free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE EVENT
Rich's campaign calls on community leaders and active citizens to reclaim the public square from the most divisive voices and unleash our capacity as builders and doers. This event will explore how the Flint community can forge a new pathway forward, create a can-do narrative, and catalyze action using the most basic parts of Harwood's road-tested Turning Outward approach to community-led, community-driven change.

In honor of the National Day of Racial Healing, we celebrate with LOVE. Cooking is a beautiful way to connect with others and bond over a delicious meal, a wonderful way to bring everyone to the table knowing they will have a seat at the table. Chef Bryant Currie will be doing a live demonstration at Austin Community College's Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Center.

City of Lauderdale Lakes National Day of Racial Healing Candlelight Ceremony, presented by Commissioner Karlene Maxwell-Williams, with special guests Broward County State Attorney Harold Pryor and Dr. Felicia DeHaney Russell, director of strategy and programming at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

We will be painting a peaceful picture on a canvas. We will supply 1 canvas, easle, paint, paint brushes and flower stencils. We only can accommodate 30 people in the community room.

Youth Action Counsel of Rhode Island for Community and Justice is hosting a community panel with discussions based on racial healing.

The Black Orchestral Network is committed to its mission to champion the acknowledgment and fair treatment of Black orchestral musicians in American orchestras.

We are grateful for your pivotal support during our inaugural Day of Solidarity in May of 2022, which exponentially propelled our impact and expanded our platform for justice. Thousands joined our call to action for American orchestras to honor and center their moral and artistic commitments: to build and sustain spaces where Black musicians and communities belong and thrive; to hire Black musicians and support their development; and to fully embed and be accountable for practices that promote respect, fairness, grace, and equity.

This year, the call for justice and equal treatment continues with increased urgency. Barriers and biases persist and are manifest in explicit and tangible ways, including the unfair denial of tenure to Black musicians. The community of Black musicians across the country shares critical concerns about dignity, equity, and inclusion in the tenure process. There is more work to be done.

We will soon unveil a comprehensive action plan to spotlight the challenges in the tenure process and catalyze actionable solutions for a more inclusive orchestral landscape, and we hope we can count on your support once again.

Year-over-year support from major supporters like you and your organization provides crucial momentum and increased pressure on orchestras to make meaningful change.

Please save the date of Monday, January 29th to once again stand in solidarity for equitable experiences of Black orchestral musicians across the country.

Community Celebration and March for Peace 2024
SAVE THE DATE
January 15th 2024
St Anthony’s Church at 217 Tremont Street
4-6 pm followed by The Community Dinner
March for Peace 3:15 pm
Memorial Rose Garden-800 Brooks Street
“We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers”
~Martin Luther King Jr.

Presented by the MLK Day Planning Committee and EmpowerMT