In honor of MLK Day and the National Day of Racial Healing, join us for two story circles as tellers share tales of reckonings, reflections, and reconciliations on Tuesday, January 21 at 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm CT.

Racism infects all our lives and the stories we tell — or don’t — literally create our world. We must write new stories and share our truths with each other if we hope to build trust and develop authentic relationships. These circles will hopefully inspire more stories — and conversations — and encourage us to listen and learn from one another as we forge a future of equity and justice for all people.

Begun in 2017, The National Day of Racial Healing builds upon the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s long-standing commitment to racial equity and grew out of the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) initiative — a comprehensive community-driven effort to bring about transformational and sustainable change while addressing the historic and contemporary effects of racism.

RSVP today at bit.ly/MG-NDRH to join us on Tuesday, January 21 at 12 pm and 2:00 pm CT for these inspiring and transformative stories.

Sponsored by Morten Group, LLC and Creative Curriculum Ventures LLC.

Margaret Wheatly reminds us that "conversation is the way that humans think together." Join us in conversation to move towards racial healing in this virtual event. Share your story and let's work together towards healing. All ages are welcome.

The Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation at College Unbound invites all students, faculty and staff to join us for Unbound Healing in Higher Ed, a virtual conversation on the 9th annual National Day of Racial Healing on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from 7:30 to 8:30 PM EST.
On January 20, 2025, Martin Luther King Day, the U.S. will inaugurate the of 47th President of the United States. Colleges and universities are currently confronting growing movements to dismantle programs and curriculums that include diversity, equity and inclusion language. The Chronicle of Higher Education DEI tracker has tracked changes dismantling DEI efforts at 215 campuses in 32 states. We want to join in community and healing circles to explore how we can and should respond to these threats.

As we reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s enduring vision of justice, freedom, and belonging, we are reminded that his dream for a better future was not only about what is possible in the distant future horizon—it was also about how we imagine and create the world in the here and now. To commemorate this year’s National Day of Racial Healing, Dr. Wenimo Okoya and Dr. Crystal Martin of the Institute of Healing and Belonging in Schools (IHBS) at NYU Metro Center, will explore how freedom dreaming, a process rooted in radical imagination, empowers educators to transform our schools into spaces of equity, joy, and liberation, reflecting—Dr. King’s vision of a society where all individuals can flourish without barriers.

What would it look like to build schools where every student has the opportunity to thrive, feel valued, and experience the fullness of their potential? How can we create educational spaces where equity and belonging are not just ideals but lived realities, especially for historically excluded students, including students of color, and those with learning differences?

Presented by the Institute for Healing and Belonging in Schools (IHBS) at NYU Metro Center, this session will introduce you to our peer-to-peer professional learning model, which empowers educators, counselors, and school leaders reimagine their schools through the lens of radical imagination. Together, we will explore how this collaborative learning journey can empower educators to co-create schools that are inclusive, antiracist, and filled with joy.

The 2025 National Day of Racial Healing (NDORH) will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 21. It is an annual observance that follows Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

This year, the ELCA, in partnership with Augsburg Fortress, will join the movement of racial healing for our church and the nation. On Jan. 21, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Central time, the ELCA will feature a free online educational event that centers the voices of ELCA leaders of color. We invite you to join us in this collective effort for a more just and equitable world. This event is open to all ELCA rostered ministers, lay leaders and members. We welcome all ELCA synods, congregations, colleges, universities, seminaries, separately incorporated ministries and antiracism teams, as well as the church’s affiliate organizations and ecumenical and interreligious partners.

The day is designed to:

Raise awareness of the need for racial healing.
Inspire collective action to build common ground for a more just and equitable ELCA and world.
The NDORH is hosted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and encourages community organizations, institutions and individuals to participate in this national day. It was created with and builds on the work of the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation community partners.

Right To Be is offering this interactive, and experiential learning experience that will teach you how to author your own resilience, using Right To Be’s resilience methodology: sit with what is, create your story, and be in choice.

We’ll start by talking about what resilience really is, and how it’s different (and harder) than self-care. Using guided practices, we’ll learn how to hold our pain and still find joy. We’ll explore how we’re making sense of this moment — and how that’s shaping our experience of it. And we’ll learn practices to recover quickly when we’re knocked down by the world.

ALA invites you to attend National Day of Racial Healing 2025: Transforming Collective Communities with Mental Health Practices, a virtual panel discussion made up of ALA committee members, partners, and round table representatives, on January 21st, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. CT. This panel is organized by the Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services (ODLOS). Moderated by a mental health professional, leaders from ALA divisions will take the hour to answer questions about their perspectives and experiences involving racial healing and equity.

Artists commission with the city of Detroit to paint a mutual on a security wall, about the history of the automotive company and the neighborhood around the surrounding areas. This was part of the community agreement with a automotive company in a eastside of Detroit neighborhood. The second artists work is a structure to monitor air quality from the newly built automotive plant , the output of odors when painting new vehicles. This work was funded by non profits in Detroit.

Dr. Howard Stevenson, the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education and Professor of Africana Studies in the Human Development and Qualitative Methods Division of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania directs the Racial Empowerment Collaborative. He will present on his work on racial literacy as a means to address the harm from hate and belonging.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy calls us to create the Beloved Community—a world where justice, love and healing are at the center of our shared existence. As we continue the journey toward realizing this vision, spaces for authentic connection and compassionate listening are more critical than ever. Join our virtual Community Building Circle on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, from 6 to 8 p.m. PST, where we will honor Dr. King’s vision by fostering empathy, mutual respect and the transformative power of collective healing. Together, we can find strength within ourselves and others, moving closer to the Beloved Community we strive for. Register to attend.