North Hennepin Community College is excited to welcome Dr. Tameka Ellington for a virtual, 1-hour keynote for the National Day of Racial Healing. Dr. Ellington will explore Colorism and Texturism: Healing Beyond Societal Beauty Standards.
Join the Truth, Racial Healing and TransformationTM (TRHT) Initiative at Emory University for the 9th Annual National Day of Racial Healing, January 21–23, 2025.
The entire Emory community is invited to engage in safe, brave and responsible spaces to discuss, reflect, experience and imagine a process of healing. The opening session is an interactive livestream Lunch and Learn with keynote speaker Tia Brown McNair, vice president for diversity, equity and student success and executive director of TRHT campus centers for the American Association of Colleges and Universities. She’ll discuss from a national perspective how to implement the TRHT framework within the strategic and innovative work being conducted on both Emory campuses. After her remarks, enjoy lunch and engage in an interactive discussion.
Join the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University for an interactive 90-minute webinar that will change the way you think about racial healing and community building. In honor of the Kellogg Foundation’s National Day of Racial Healing on January 21st, 2025, renowned facilitator Susan M. Glisson will share an overview of The Welcome Table™, a community building process she uses for racial healing, reckoning and repair. Her innovative approach utilizes storytelling and deep listening to foster authentic relationships that create a safe space for acknowledging and reconciling past race-related wounds and facilitate effective collective efforts that transform communities.
Glisson has completed reconciliation projects using The Welcome Table™ in communities with some of the most well-known histories of racial violence and in more than 25 states throughout the U.S. This webinar will introduce several Welcome Table best practices and participants will leave with an awareness of the powerful role storytelling can play in repairing the damage caused by racism and building more equitable communities.
Attendees are encouraged to read about some of Glisson’s impactful work using The Welcome Table™ in her 2019 article, Critical Connections: Trust-building as a Prerequisite to Systems Change.
Culturally “Rapped”: A conversation among therapists of color to learn from one another about how we culturally tailor our behavioral health interventions to address racial and systemic healing in our communities.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a day of remembrance, celebration and action to honor his life and work. To ensure Dr. King’s vision remains at the forefront of our collective consciousness we are hosting a 12-hour prayer vigil on Monday, January 20, 2025 from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm ET. The prayer vigil theme is “Praying Together, Acting Together: Honoring Dr. King’s Legacy Through Justice, Unity, and Hope.” This initiative is part of a broader movement to promote justice, unity and hope.
As a Certified Unbreak My Soul Facilitator, I’ve designed this session to help Black women overcome workplace trauma in a supportive and nurturing environment.
Based on the research of Dr. Carey Yazeed, Black women are struggling both emotionally and physically in the workplace. Many do not feel safe, and are often afraid to share about their work experiences due to the fear of retaliation or experiencing negative consequences. Professional Black women lack community – a support system filled with other like minded women who understand their systemic induced pain and suffering. Our goal is to create safe spaces where Black women can speak freely about their toxic work experiences; a space where they feel seen and heard.
What to Expect:
✔️ A welcoming, judgment-free space to share your story.
✔️ Tools and strategies for healing and resilience.
✔️ Connection with other like-minded women who understand the unique challenges you face.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025…1:30 pm-2:30 pm CDT
Join the Antiracist Conversations Group (ARC) for transformative dialogues/conversations as we host a National Day of Racial Healing!
The National Day of Racial Healing, launched by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, promotes shared humanity and sustainable change to address the legacy of oppression in the U.S.
“The National Day of Racial Healing – initiated by the W.K Kellogg Foundation, is always held the Tuesday after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – centers around experiences rooted in truth-telling, offering people, organizations, and communities a day set aside for racial healing, bringing people together to take collective action for a more just and equitable world.”
During this event”
We will prioritize initiating bridge-building dialogues and conversations, while also creating opportunities and environments for ongoing discussions.
In our effort to dismantle the barriers that separate us, we aim to foster allies who will play a strategic role in advancing the conversation toward healing racial divides.
“Power is the ability to define reality and to have others respond to your (that) definition as if it were (their) own.” W. Nobles, 2006
Excluding perspectives does not erase facts or their truth. It hides them in shame. Neither does covering our eyes make us colorblind. It merely renders us blindfolded, embarrassed by the very realities clearly in sight.
How did we arrive here, comfortable and just mildly disturbed by the facts of who we are and how we became us…and them? Does an end justify the means? Surely not. Native apartheid now does not absolve the genocide that made it so. Racial caste now vindicates not the enslavement nor Jim Crow from which it is birthed.
Rewriting the story of generations past or that of ours presently being made is about the power to define the reality of both to White-wash and control the future.
As we continue Learning to Be Free, Courageous Conversation® invites you to AMERICA ERASED 2025 on Tuesday, January 21st, 2025, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Pacific Time. Facilitators include: Glenn Singleton, Courageous Conversation Founder and President; Dr. Ruby Ababio-Hernandez, Courageous Conversation Executive Vice President of Programming & Development; and Madame Athena Chang, Courageous Conversation Global Foundation Executive Director.
Don’t be a passive observer of history. Be an active participant in shaping the future. Join us for this unparalleled dialogue across generations to “remix the narrative” about the indelible story of us — the people who were here and still are, the ones who came and continue to come seeking, and those who were forced and have stayed in defiance and condemnation.
RSVP today and be a part of the change.
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