Join us for an evening of dialogue, desserts and doodling. The event is free and open to the public.

Transform your story into community power! Join us for an evening of connection, healing, and shared experiences. Enjoy dinner on us, bring the kids (free childcare!), and connect with neighbors. Spanish interpretation available.

Join us for community conversations around racial healing and progress in the community through collective engagement and action. This will not only be a conversation but a chance to utilize your energy and efforts for strategic actions toward progress. Food will be served.

Join us for Building Bridges, a transformative event dedicated to fostering racial healing and equity within New Orleans' diverse and dynamic workforce. This gathering will bring together employers and leaders from key sectors—hospitality, education, environmental, and non-profit—to engage in open, honest, and collaborative conversations about how to address racial disparities, promote inclusivity, and create lasting change in
our communities and workplaces. Through facilitated dialogue, participants will explore the unique challenges
and opportunities each sector faces in advancing racial justice. Together, we will share best practices, identify actionable strategies, and build a collective vision for a more equitable and inclusive New Orleans.

Join us for a day of racial healing!

We'll have conversations, games, color stations available for you to unplug, connect, and heal.

In partnership with Our Voice Nuestra Voz and Dream House Wellness Foundation, this event is intended to build solidarity and love amongst our communities.

The Dharma of Being Antiracist is an intensive class created by Reverend Liên Shutt, a Zen Buddhist priest with a social work background who combines Zen with Insight teachings to make Buddhist teachings accessible to all, particularly BIPOC and oppressed groups in the Western Convert Buddhist world. Co-teaching this iteration of DBA in 2025 with Willie Mukei Smith and Dawn Haney, students will be studying the Engaged Eightfold Path, Rev. Liên's own framing of the Buddhist Eightfold Path developed over years of teaching in diverse spaces. Through the framework of this path, students will learn to recognize their racial conditioning through heart-mind trainings and practice antiracism that is not as an external concept, but as an embodied cultivated path of Buddhist non-harming. The core text will be Rev. Liên's book "Home is Here: Practicing Antiracism with the Engaged Eightfold Path" which includes exercises, meditations, and real-world examples of how to engage with difficult and charged scenarios, particularly for BIPOC, Asian Diaspora, and Queer folx. Students who are interested in the program are asked to attend at least 10 out of the 12 live class sessions in order to create a safe and brave group dynamic and reap the benefits of the intensive self-reflection based curriculum. Registration is by February 10th! The series is from February 17th to May 12th, meeting weekly on Monday nights. All classes are conducted online through Zoom. There are readings and homework assigned before classes that students will be expected to complete for maximum engagement with the course material. The class is welcome to all BIPOC, all Asian American/Diaspora, and white folx. There will be affinity groups to foster deeper and braver spaces. No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please share this offering with your network!

Bahamas Junkanoo is more than festive parading. It is a universal language, illustrating
the message that difference is normal. It encourages respect and understanding for others. Storytelling in a healing circle will share how we heal through appreciating "difference is normal."

Educational Sustainability Mobilization connecting youth and adults in low-income families ages (3-26) to ensure academic achievement to encourage success in high school, career and job readiness information and demonstration through Life skills in online after school programs.

MSU Erickson Kivva: The 4th Annual Malcolm X Muslim Studies Community Forum featuring Ilyasah Shabazz (author, activist, and daughter of Malcolm X), with lecture and book signing.

The 4th Annual Malcolm X Muslim Studies Community Forum will be held in the Kiva room at Erickson Hall for those who would like to join in person. For those who have registered, a livestream link will be sent closer to the event date if you would prefer to join virtually.

We invite Behavioral Health Services Department Staff to join us in community for National Day of Racial Healing as we look forward to the future while calling on the wisdom of the past and our inner strength as storytellers. Watch and Wonder Film and Discussion Series: Celebrating National Day of Racial Healing with Native Stories – Wednesday, January 29 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm.