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Spoken Word, Native American Dance, Racial Healing Circle

This event will be to help heal the pain from stressful years of being treated with no respect.

Free and family-friendly way to celebrate the legacy of Dr. King! Food provided. All are welcome to celebrate and connect, to love, to uplift and teach, to honor, and to remember Together.

Join Sweet Potato Comfort Pie in honoring Martin Luther King’s 95th birthday and our 10 years of Origins. We are looking forward to coming together and sharing stories — uplifting one another through our shared commonalities and differences, all while enjoying a delicious catered meal and a slice of sweet potato comfort pie. We recommend registering soon, as seats will fill up fast!

Pre-Program Reception: A pre-program will begin promptly at 1:15 PM with a special poetic tribute during the “Character Values: Upholding Our Beloved Community” photo exhibit, all while you enjoy live music.

The Main Program: the main program will begin at 2:00 PM with the Pie Procession of 95 pies led by community members to honor Dr. King. This simple but powerful act of preparing and sharing sweet potato pie is a revered practice for comforting one another and strengthening our human connection. There will be presentations, awards, and critical racial dialogues among participants — all done in the spirit of Ubuntu to remind us that each of us is who we are because of our beloved community. Our keynote speaker is television news anchor and Emmy-award-winning television news reporter Shayla Reaves. Other entertainment includes Mari Harris, and the Heart and Soul Drum Academy.

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 Jan. 17, 2017, 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. 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.

All events will be in person at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center and streaming via Zoom. You are registering for the afternoon events.

JANUARY 16, 2024

7:30-9:30 join the Environmental Professionals Network for a keynote and dialogue with Dr. Gail Meyers. Dr. Myers will present a talk, “Recognition of historical injustices in agriculture and the importance of environmental experiences for racial healing”

11:30-12:00 Lunch

12:00-1:15 Dr. Alia Dietch, Associate Professor, presenting, “The healing power of nature and public lands”

1:30-2:45 Kip Holley, presenting, “Cultural Humility as part of racial healing”

We will unfold and the root causes of Prejudice and how to mitigate its harmfulness through Knowledge, Mitigation and Education. Our project efforts show how we are organized to begin achieving these goals. We are all also explaining how those of interest can become involved.

For three years Equitable Dinners has been inspiring positive action through art and courageous conversation.

Equitable Dinners is a transformative city-wide event bringing together people of diverse backgrounds in a facilitated conversation about complex issues, like racism. Equitable Dinners unique approach combines
– a short one person play
– facilitated dialogue
– over a meal with neighbors and strangers,
to create an experience where every voice has space and every story is sacred. Guests leave our events inspired to take positive action in their communities, workplaces, and their homes.

We will show how to assimilate and share knowledge about Prejudice, examine the Roots of Prejudice and how it manifests itself in all of us, discuss mitigation strategies and then emphasize the methods by which we can eradicate its major components through Education.

The event will include an interview with some who have experienced discrimination, but have gained strength and hope from it. We will also include the foundations for Prejudice and Mitigation Strategies for those who understand the values of Open-mindedness and are Ready.

We will go back in time on February 17th, 2024 at the Greensboro History Museum. Seven great people will be honored by seven great performers. The time is now, the time is right to honor the legacy of true warriors. The roads they traveled may have been different but their final destination was the same. Equality for Black America. Malcolm X, Ella Baker, Medgar Evers, James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hammer, and Martin Luther King will take us on an unbelievable journey, a journey that defines their greatest strength.

One Love Global will host a hybrid program including a healing circle and opportunities for action. Follow One Love Global on Facebook and visit www.oneloveglobal.org for updates and registration.