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Join us at the Maysles Documentary Center in New York, NY for the 8th Annual National Day of Racial Healing. This in-person event aims to foster unity, understanding, and healing among diverse communities. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with like-hearted individuals and contribute to a more whole society. Let's encourage our young event curators as we work to make change together!
Event Details:
Date: Tuesday January 16
Time: 11:30am-2:30pm
Location: Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027, USA
Join the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for a discussion on race and how it impacts everyone! This will be in honor of the National Day of Racial Healing!
What does it take to wake up a “sleeping” Indigenous language? How do Indigenous nations keep their cultures and environments thriving? Elisabeth Pierite-Mora and Jean-Luc Pierite, both Tunica-Biloxi and Mississippi Choctaw, will speak on “Indigenous People and Social Change” at Northwestern State University at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17 in the Lucile Hendrick Room on the first floor of the Student Union. The event is free and open to the public.
During the talk, the speakers will discuss their family and community’s work on language and cultural revitalization and how it impacts their individual work. Pierite-Mora will address stereotypes of Indigenous peoples and the challenges and successes of shifting an endangered language from extinct to awakening. Pierite will speak on his experiences working with the urban Indian community in New England, including legislative advocacy, environmental justice activism and promoting access to technology. Both will share their collaborative work creating new Tunica-Biloxi content through their contribution to Mitoloji Latannyèr/Mythologies Louisianaises, a multimedia exhibit running now through the end of 2024 at Capitol Park Museum in Baton Rouge.
The event is part of National Day of Racial Healing on campus.
“As stated by the National League of Cities, the National Day of Racial Healing began in 2017 as a call to action for racial healing for all people,” said Brittany Broussard, NSU’s director of Campus Climate and Culture. “It is so important for the healing process to hear from members of marginalized groups to be educated on their culture and support the social action causes they fight for.”
The event is sponsored by the Gail Metoyer Jones Center for Inclusion and Diversity, American Indian and Indigenous Studies Minor offered through the School of Social Sciences and Applied Programs and the NSU Native American Student Association .
A self-care workshop focusing on Historically Excluded and Racially Oppressed (HERO) Graduate Students with Dr. Diandra Prescod.
Soil & Soul invites teens and adults to a special session of Sunday Mindfulness Club. See how inner resources and mental models fueled the Civil Rights Revolution, including stillness, movement, and song. Enjoy light bites after the activity.
Cry Out is a profound practice of surrender and submission, a transformative act where one relinquishes personal will to engage and embrace the divine will of God. It’s a spiritual journey that leads to breakthroughs, restoration, and the transformation of pain, barriers, and obstacles, paving the way toward one’s divine purpose. Through the exercise of faith, courage, wisdom, and the desire to break through and manifest inner strength, individuals not only discover but also unleash their gifts, talents, and abilities dwelling within to overcome life’s challenges and ascend to the next level of divine purpose.
Cry Out serves as a dynamic pathway for individuals to draw nearer to God, empowering them to be guided by an intense personal yearning to break through and triumph, radiating from this transformative experience. It signifies heartfelt recognition and an unwavering desire to shift the seasons of life, ascending to the next pinnacle of spiritual renewal. Through the dynamic act of “Crying Out,” one reveals a resolute commitment to embrace the higher calling, overcome obstacles, and propel through toward a destiny brimming with purpose and spiritual fulfillment.
The Racial Equity Roundtable is marking the 2024 National Day of Racial Healing with Racial Healing Circles facilitated by our community partners in this work. Racial Healing Circles are an opportunity for people of different backgrounds to proactively come together to discuss race and race-related issues. This work is generously supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
It's time! The 8th annual National Day of Racial Healing. Please join us this Tuesday, Jan 16 from 11:30-2:30 for a community event featuring performances, speakers, and a sharing of Tricia Hersey's "Rest is Resistance" concepts of reclaiming power and disrupting white supremacy.
Come by, bring friends, share food and community with us!
Maysles Documentary Center
343 Malcolm X Blvd (btw 127/128th St)
Tuesday, 1/16
11:30a-2:30p
Our Jazz Concert series is on the 1st Friday of every month from May to October, we feature different aspects of cultures weather it be through music, food, art or expressions to educate participants on the diversity of all. We present questions to the audience that will challenge them to examine their beliefs and knowledge of their fellow humans, in hopes of them discovering their own bias, that would lead them to address, improve and correct themselves.
Join us for the National Day of Racial Healing on Tuesday, January 16, in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Campus Center. We will be screening the film “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America” at 10:45 a.m. After the film, stay for a dialogue with Jeffery Robinson, executive director of the Who We Are Project.