Racial healing circles provide a transformative space for personal growth, fostering open discussions, healing, education, and progress toward racial justice.  These circles create a secure environment that empowers individuals to become catalysts for positive change. 

This event is exclusive;  if you are interested in bringing this program to your organization, please contact either Sonia Lopez, slopez2@illinois.edu or Maria Gutiérrez, maraiza@illinois.edu

The series will be delivered in Spanish.

Join us for a transformative day dedicated to healing and reconciliation within our community. The Healing Circle: Day of Racial Healing is a safe and inclusive space where individuals from all backgrounds can come together to acknowledge, understand, and address the impacts of racial injustice. Through guided discussions, storytelling, and reflective activities, we will explore the complexities of race relations and work towards fostering empathy, understanding, and healing. Together, let's commit to creating a more equitable and compassionate society. All are welcome to participate in this essential journey towards unity and healing.

We served over 500 pallets to 65 different organizations with different backgrounds so they can go into the underserved communities with supplies, shoes, clothes, food washing, detergent, free pharmacy, free therapy Can we talked about the barriers? The minority non-profits have when it comes to fundraising, but those that are boots on the ground. There was raised in the minority communities and a racial discrepancies that big donors cannot give to minority non-profits directly with long RFPs that are difficult to fill out. But the world keeps using minority faces on commercials and shelters. But we don't have tangible buildings, cars, trucks, food trucks, disaster relief, but we're hit more often with a national disaster and losing our jobs. We want to make sure that large companies understand that in order to help crime and health, you must serve directly funding for BIPOC COMMUNITIES

In-Lak'ech Ala K'in: "Tu eres mi otro yo," I am you; you are me.
A Mayan term that explains how the "other" is me and I am the "other" simultaneously. As I care for them, I care for myself.
I am you; you are me." On the National Day of Racial Healing, it is time to reflect on our shared values and create collaboration, reflecting ourselves on the "others." We placed students in front of each other and asked them to identify similarities and differences.
At Raíces, we believe that a different world is possible, and we must open our hearts to recognize ourselves in the other. We understand these values and practice them daily at school. EQUALITY, RESPECT, DIFFERENCE, DIVERSITY, SOLIDARITY, UNDERSTANDING, FREEDOM, JUSTICE.

Join #HipHopEd for our weekly Twitter (X) spaces discussion. Tonight we are discussing how Hip Hop and Education can be viable vehicles for imagining and then working towards what racial healing can look like in our classrooms and communities. Follow us on (X) @therealhiphoped, @chrisemdin, and @tdj6899

In-Lak'ech Ala K'in: "Tu eres mi otro yo," I am you; you are me.
A Mayan term that explains how the "other" is me and I am the "other" simultaneously. As I care for them, I care for myself and vice-versa.

I am you; you are me." On the National Day of Racial Healing, it is time to reflect on our shared values and create collaboration, reflecting ourselves on the "others." We placed students in front of each other and asked them to identify similarities and differences.

NOTE: This is a video link to be watched at any time. K-5 Students and teachers discuss differences and similarities between each other based on Respect, Empathy, and Love.

E Pluribus Unum is hosting a special screening of ORIGIN, written and directed by Ava DuVernay. ORIGIN chronicles the tragedy and triumph of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she investigates a global phenomenon of epic proportions. Portrayed by Academy Award nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (“King Richard”), Isabel experiences unfathomable personal loss and love as she crosses continents and cultures to craft one of the defining American books of our time. Inspired by the New York Times best-seller “Caste,” ORIGIN explores the mystery of history, the wonders of romance and a fight for the future of us all.

E Pluribus Unum (EPU), nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to build a more just, equitable, and inclusive
South, uprooting the barriers that have long divided the region by race and class. EPU is focused on changing the divisive narratives that perpetuate systemic and interpersonal racism, cultivating and empowering courageous leaders who are advancing
racial equity, and championing transformative policy change.

The National Day of Racial Healing (NDORH) Viewing Party will be an informal gathering of W.K. Kellogg Foundation Detroit Team members and grantee partners to view the NDORH televised video and engage in discussion around our racial healing journeys.

The Mississippi Public Health Association (MPHA) is pleased to invite you to a webinar,
entitled “A Look at Cultivating Healthy Relationships Across Dividing Lines” to be held
on January 16, 2024, from 6:00-7:00 pm, in observance of National Day of Racial
Healing. Our guest speaker will be Brian Crawford, the President of Mission Mississippi,
an organization dedicated to the work of Christian reconciliation across racial and
ethnic lines in businesses, schools, and churches in Mississippi and beyond. Brian is also
the lead pastor of City Light Church, an intentional multiethnic church plant in
Downtown Vicksburg, Mississippi. Brian and his wife, Candi, are natives and long-time
residents of Vicksburg and have a passion to share the love and Gospel of Jesus Christ
with the city they hold dear. Brian is also committed to the work of assessing, training,
and coaching church planters across the US through his work with 242 Network and
MyBlvd. When Brian isn’t engaged in the work of Mission Mississippi or City Light, you
will find him either dating his wife, reading books, watching Marvel movies with his
boys, or watching sports of any kind.

You can register for this free webinar at the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvcemhqTstHdY-HcFj-s5OW1Rr8iIDkRG

You do not want to miss this! We look forward to your participation.

Join us for an in-depth conversation with LIVE FREE USA Executive Director Pastor Mike McBride, Selma Center for Nonviolence Executive Director Ainka Jackson, and Violence Intervention Street Outreach Specialist Christi Harris focused on the connection between America's violent past filled will racial violence to our current state where mass shootings lead news reports on a regular basis. We will explore our nation's history, the impact of epigenetics, and what reparations could look like in a healing America. Log on. Ask questions. Comment. Share.