Racial Healing Circle
The Power of Sankofa: Reframing Our Past to Heal
Facilitated Racial Healing Circle
To mark the eighth annual National Day of Racial Healing, we are joining together as AAC&U Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Centers—Spelman College, Sewanee: The University of the South, and Mount Holyoke College—along with the Joseph and Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights and the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership at Morehouse College to host award-winning author Clint Smith in conversation with undergraduate students eager to deepen our understanding of how we can hold the pain and possibilities of racial healing together.
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
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.
Dr. Crosby-Weeks' and the ECE Club are thrilled to invite you to a special event, "Let's Talk: Embracing Diversity on National Day of Racial Healing," hosted by Dr. Crosby-Weeks and the ECE Club. This enlightening session will be held on January 16, from 5:00 PM to 5:45 PM, in Room 12 and available through Zoom.
Our goal is to foster meaningful conversations around the rich diversity within our campus community. To guide our discussion, we'll be using the "Learning for Justice: Let's Talk" guide, a resource designed to encourage open and thoughtful dialogue, as well as several prompts from the book, "How We Ended Racism" Realizing a New Possibility in One Generation" by Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski.
This event is particularly recommended for students enrolled in CD314, as it promises to be an invaluable learning experience. However, it's open to all who wish to participate and contribute to this important conversation.
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.
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
Please join us in community to contemplate our shared values, celebrate our common humanity, and inspire collective action to create a more just and equitable world.
Our featured speaker is author, activist, and jazz singer, LaTosha Brown. Brown is a contributor to The New York Times and a Senior Practice Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. As co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund organization, LaTosha is dedicated to increasing the political power of Black people.
Free parking in the Campus Center Garage
Please join us in person or by livestream to participate.
The livestream link can be found here and on the Office of Equity and Inclusion homepage on the day of the event.
RSVP Required
Join us as Winter Unverzagt, Student Government Association Vice-President of Justice, Equity, and Inclusion and Kaitlyn Crisantos, Student Government Association Speaker of the Senate speaks to us about student-based advocacy on the top of Latin American immigrants in the United States which will pertain to the Washington D.C. advocacy trip on November 13 – 15, 2023, also with regards to Macomb and WIU community immigrant sentiments, and how we can move forward in our larger goal of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with regards to the campus Latin American community.
Join us as WIU’s 2023 Rev. Dr. C.T. Vivian Scholar, Tamera Izlar for a Diversity Storytelling Workshop. An interactive workshop embracing memory and community. This experience held in conjunction with the National Day of Racial Healing will provide campus and community members’ interactive opportunities to embrace personal storytelling journeys, sharpen listening skills, and create, uncover or join ongoing advocacy opportunities in your community.