This event is a direct connect with the NDORH efforts of WKKF. The National Day of Racial Healing is a time to contemplate shared values and create the blueprint together for #HowWeHeal from the effects of racism.

Mississippi2's mission is to amplify the voices of marginalized communities through
visual storytelling which includes, print & digital magazine as well as community
engagement & outreach. We are the voice of the New South. The Bootjack & Red event is a combination of oral history and documented facts. It also features current award-winning Mississippi storytellers, Wright Thompson, Kiese Laymon, Talamieka Brice and Al White. White is the current mayor of Duck Hill Mississippi where the infamous lynching occurred. He’s also a historian and has been instrumental in bringing this story to light.
The panel will discuss the historic significance of the tragedy as well as it’s impact on modern day history and through examination and discussion plot a path forward for healing and acknowledgement, through the learnings of Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT)

This event aims to seek racial healing by speaking the truth about the tragic deaths of Robert ‘Bootjack’ McDaniel’s and Roosevelt ‘Red’ Townes. Through acknowledgement we aim to build trust through community so that we can work together for a more equitable union and affirm the inherit value of everyone.