Join us for an Instagram Live discussion on what the community of Brownsville can teach us about local and national racial healing. The conversation will be facilitated by Clory Jackson, founder of The Brownsville Project, a grass-roots organization combining transformative justice and live performance to help communities confront and heal from suppressed history. The Brownsville Project advocates for reparations, healing and remembrance for Brownsville, a historically Black community in Maryland displaced by Frostburg State University. Clory will discuss key learnings and struggles from the community's search for racial healing and repair, such as the process of undergoing a Truth & Reconciliation Commission. The IG Live will also include a Q&A. Tune in at 6pm EST to join this discussion!

Mental health and wellness practitioners will share the impact of domestic and global anti-Blackness on individuals, families, communities, schools, and our society at large. They will provide ways to manage your mental health care, enhance your spirituality, and focus on healing and self-efficacy.

This 2-part series is ideal for people with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and those impacted by societal events, systemic racism, and structural injustices. We highly encourage youth and their families to participate in these virtual sessions.

Regardless of your race, ethnicity, nationality, background, etc. ALL are welcome to participate in these sessions to listen and learn. We want to inspire allies and co-conspirators to do the individual and collective work to improve consciousness, break down barriers, and dismantle unfair systems that are rooted in anti-Blackness. We aim for these two sessions to be valuable and life-changing experiences for people to embrace diversity, inclusion, equality, equity, to ensure justice, healing, belonging, hope, and liberation.

We will watch some or all of the NBC News Now program and use it to spur conversation that informs and motivates the work ahead of us this year in Worthington, Ohio.

In solidarity with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation National Day of Racial Healing (January 16th), we invite you to join a discussion on healing and transgressing colorism in the Latino community. Our Executive Director, Angela Mictlanxochitl, will share work and insight from elder in spirit world and scholar Dr. Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, testimonios from Tenoch Huerta's 'Orgullo Prieto', and welcomes the stories of reconciliation in your community. Colorism is the prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group. Colorism due to systemic injustice and colonial influences has become a behavior within many of our customs both private and public. The goal in this discussion is not too shame but to listen to one another's experiences and to learn how we can change our behaviors for racial justice and healing in our community. Leading with compassion and growth!

Sacramento County Public Health staff are invited to Power Hour, an internal type of healing circle where colleagues can come, be their authentic selves and engage in discussion topics and opportunities for advancing racial equity. January's Power Hour will incorporate Conocimiento

The Anti-Racist ERG at Social Current meets on a monthly basis to create space for authentic and vulnerable conversations that encourage reflection and growth on an individual level. We aim to share resources and support individuals to become better allies/advocates for racial equity in ourselves and our communities. We prioritize learning about white-dominant culture, re-learning history and developing our racial identities and making them known to our communities. This is a brave space for conversations, and we want to hear from one another.

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An Authentic Space on the UNESCO 2023 Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Junkanoo -Bahamas.
"A means of free expression and intergenerational dialogue, its cultural value is recognized at national and international levels.
Bahamas Junkanoo is creative dialogue between the past and the present, between the local and the global, between the individual and the collective.”

My name is Icelyn Cate, the CEO of American Bahamian Literary Entities Inc., (ABLE). I am pleased to partner with Unity in Action, International, Inc. in our mission is to publicize the culture of the Bahamas as more than a tourist destination of “sun, sand and sea.” We encourage creatives to see it as place in storytelling, encouraging change for a better narrative for racial healing. In The Bahamas, this unique cultural phenomenon called Junkanoo, is liberated from being regarded as mere parading, and it has become the system we need for a more rapid paradigm shift towards tolerance.

Our topic specifically illustrates how Bahamas Junkanoo is a medium that encourages racial healing. Explore further how we can appreciate our differences and gain an unlimited perspective.

Keynote speaker Dr. Alejandro Covarrubias will share insights and perspectives with the AMDA community on racial healing. This event aims to foster open dialogue, inspire collective action, and create a space for reflection and learning.

In her work as a behavioral scientist, a common factor Dr. Carey Yazeed has discovered is there are few opportunities for Black women to safely discuss their negative experiences in the work place. If and/or when a Black woman does decide to speak up regarding the discrimination, micro aggressions, racism, and harassment she has/is experiencing, she will probably encounter negative consequences such as being labeled angry, difficult to work with, aggressive, or bitter, or she will find herself and her work under a microscope with management looking for a reason to terminate her. Hardly are her grievances taken seriously.

Unlike her white counterparts, Black professional women have the added layers of cultural norms, ongoing societal trauma, and past generational trauma, which they are often navigating unconsciously.

This year Dr. Yazeed is taking additional steps to help Black women to heal, starting with a free seminar on the National Day of Racial Healing, to discuss healing from work trauma. On January 16th at 7pm EST, this seminar will serve as a safe space for Black women to gather and discuss the trauma they have endured in the work place, and learn about solutions to help them as they navigate their healing journey.

Registration is required.

The Coalition4Justice is celebrating both Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service and National Day of Racial Healing by hosting a virtual panel presentation, dialogue, and reflection on race relations in the U.S. and how we can create a culture of acceptance and belonging in America.