Join us for an impactful facilitated dialogue event on the National Day of Racial Healing. This gathering aims to foster an inclusive and comfortable space where participants can openly discuss and explore the barriers hindering racial healing. Through guide conversation. we hope to encourage understanding, empathy, and collaborative efforts towards dismantling these barriers for more inclusive future.

This event is a two-part series. Part I: "A Conversation to Identify Racial Barries," is intended to make our State College community feel comfortable discussing what they see around them. Part II: "A Conversation to Identify Strategies to Help Break Down Racial Barriers," will allow the community to brainstorm possible solutions and consider the broader national context.

We hope you will consider joining us! Let's break bread and barriers together – lunch will be provided!

Events at WSU-Tri-Cities, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., including: Zen Den to focus on mindfulness, breathing and other stress-relieving techniques, Coug Circle: Racial Healing for Everyone, mental health support services, reflective writing workshop, art for healing workshop

In partnership with Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Centers at Mt. Holyoke College, Spelman College, Agnes Scott College, and the Joseph Lowery Institute of Atlanta, the Sewanee Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center is pleased to announce a virtual collaboration, A Conversation with Clint Smith, to be held on Tuesday, January 16th, National Day of Racial Healing, 6 pm-7 pm CT in Gailor Hall. Refreshments will be provided. Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2021. He is also the author of two books of poetry, the New York Times bestselling collection Above Ground and Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.

As a TRHT Center and a campus committed to becoming a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning, UH Manoa intentionally pauses each January to mark the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. During this time, we also honor the National Day of Racial Healing and the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We will collectively explore what it has meant, continues to mean, and could mean in the future to experience Hawai‘i as our home aloha, our beloved home. We will pause and engage together January 16-18, 2024 by sharing stories, listening deeply, creating art, making connections, building relationships, and sharing meals together.

A documentary screening event featuring "Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity," thoughtfully crafted by World Trust. This documentary adeptly navigates the intricate terrain of racial equity, providing a nuanced exploration of the challenges and intricacies surrounding this critical issue. Our initiative aligns seamlessly with the broader context of National Racial Healing Day, reflecting our commitment to fostering profound discussions and deeper understanding within our community. As we prepare for this event, our goal is to contribute to a comprehensive and enlightening dialogue that resonates with the spirit of unity and shared learning.

Coalition for the Common Good The Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Centers of Antioch University and Otterbein University are collaborating to honor the National Day of Racial Healing on January 16, 2024. From morning until evening and from coast to coast, our teams of train facilitators will co-facilitate Racial Healing Circles.

Join us in-person for a powerful healing circle event dedicated to fostering unity and understanding. One event in Prestonsburg and one in Pikeville.

The BW TRHT Campus Center will hold "Jacket Circles" (Racial Healing Circles) in honor of the day. On Tuesday January 16th, the opportunity will focus on students. On Friday January 19th, an opportunity will be open for faculty and staff. BW's Celebration is also partnered with our Martin Luther King, Jr. Week Celebration and will support the selected theme: "It Starts with Me: The Quest for Peace and Justice 60 Years Later". Reflecting on a speech Dr. King gave when accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, our hope is to focus on how we all can wage peace in our individual and collective spheres of influence. For Students Only.

The National Day of Racial Healing takes place during Agnes Scott College's Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Commemorative Week of Human Rights and Social Justice. To honor both commemorations, we are hosting Dr. Durryle Brooks as our keynote speaker to speak to our community about Operationalizing Love. Dr. Brooks is an interdisciplinary researcher and scholar-practitioner as well as the founder and CEO of Love and Justice Consulting. During his keynote speech, Dr. Brooks will center Black liberation theology and Black feminist thought as he guides community members through an interrogation of Westernized constructions of love, an analysis of how every day notions of love operate as tools of oppression, and mapping out how to hold each other with loving accountability.

NATIONAL DAY OF RACIAL HEALING
Circle Conversation
Donahoo Lounge, Maxwell Student Union • 3 – 4:15 p.m.