In honor of the National Day of Racial Healing, join us to make new connections, share personal stories, and practice the art of deep listening. Our circle facilitators are located in Malibu, California and Charleston, South Carolina. We invite everyone around the country and globe to this virtual community-building experience.
This is a highly participatory program. Please come ready to engage!
Hosted by the Social Justice Racial Equity Collaborative of Charleston and the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Centers of Pepperdine University and The Citadel. Learn more and register here:
https://thesophiainstitute.org/racial-healing-circles/
6:00-7:30pm Eastern / 3:00-4:00pm Pacific
The 5th Annual Greater Williamsburg National Day of Racial Healing
Join us on Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 6:00 PM for a powerful event focused on fostering unity and understanding at he Birthplace of America – Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia. The event will take place at Legacy Hall, located on 4301 New Town Avenue in Williamsburg, Virginia.
At this important gathering, we aim to promote racial healing and honor local organizations that are working to bridge racial divides with the "Table Builders Award". Be part of this impactful event as we come together to celebrate diversity and build connections. The evening will include food, music, storytelling and a candlelight service. Each participant will receive a complimentary copy of “The Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding” by Lisa Schirch.
Don't miss this opportunity to contribute to the ongoing dialogue on racial healing. Mark your calendars for the 5th Annual Greater Williamsburg National Day of Racial Healing and be prepared to be inspired!
Since 2017, the Courageous Conversation Global Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, has been forming partnerships with colleges/universities, non-profit organizations, and corporations and helping people advance racial equity through authentic, sustained, dialogue within and between racial groups. Our mission is to elevate racial consciousness through interracial healing. We practice this healing through training and development to deepen our collective understanding of racial justice. Through this practice, the Foundation promotes and supports communities, locally and globally, in achieving racial equity and social justice.
We do our work via three programming areas. Our Courageous Equity Leadership Fellows Program identifies, supports and provides training to college students; on a yearly basis, our Fellows create and facilitate racial healing events on their college campuses. Through our Racial Healing and Transformation Community Groups Program, we provide “wraparound” support and training deep within communities through seminars; community members begin to learn skills and tools to engage across and within racial lines. Through Media Campaigns with our partner ad agencies, we push out campaigns throughout the year that spark courageous conversations and racial justice advocacy via media platforms.
On January 16, join the Courageous Conversation Global Foundation team for a compelling intergenerational conversation around Driving While Black in America as we explore the following ongoing reality: In America, Black drivers are 20% more likely to be stopped and searched by police, and 3x more likely to be killed by officers during encounters. From microaggressions to murder, routine traffic stops are anything but routine when you're Black.
During our time together, you will be introduced to our groundbreaking Driving While Black Media Campaign and hear from the creators, Anthony O’Neill, EVP/Executive Creative Director, and Rony Castor, Group Creative Director. Our College Fellows will enhance the conversation by lifting the voices of Gen Z as they share their stories and perspectives.
By engaging in conversation, we hope to promote racial healing, ignite action and inspire people to get involved in transforming the problematic relationship shared between police and Black folks in America.
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84633485214?pwd=eWFYWnNDMjFldzlCQnlaNmtMa21CUT09
Meeting ID: 846 3348 5214
Passcode: 387765
The East Biloxi Community Collaborative (EBCC) will host a Day of Racial Healing Lunch and Learn. Everyone is welcome to join in the conversation held on Tuesday, January 16th starting at 11:30am, Hancock Whitney Bank building-Second floor Community Room, 888 Howard Ave, Biloxi, MS 39530. Parking in church lot behind the building. Please do NOT park in bank lot.
Using a conversation guide created by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for this type of event, participants will be invited to have conversations to share their thoughts, experiences, and hopes for racial healing.
The format is simple. The possibilities are powerful.
Let us practice listening to each other, celebrating and seeing difference, and create opportunities to develop positive relationships with people different than ourselves.
This event is open to anyone with a positive intention to create racial healing.
This is a mixed gender event, friends and family, all are welcome.
Bringing the arts to nature. Historically, urban communities shy away from nature, in particular, the Forest. This event hope is to decolonize and unstigmatize nature by exploring the things we love most, together, in nature. Speakers from the United States Forest Service will be present, theologians to help diverse communities find Awe in nature, along with tree wrapping and fire pit discussions.
April 5 and 6, Imagining Beyond white Christian Nationalism April 5-7, Camping on the Quad
Mission:
Fulfilling the Dream is a multi-jurisdictional consortium of liked minded community members, grassroots organizations, businesses, media, Civil Rights and Faith-based organizations focused on executing Dr. Martin Luther King's succession plan as outlined in his book, "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community".
Vision:
We believe to rectify a cure to the heal the pervasive ills plaguing our communities we must first identify the historic systemic social constructs driving racial inequities in the community by having open dialog regarding the effects and solutions. Therefore, we will focus on the theoretical framework of economic justice and Civil Rights outlined in Dr. Martin Luther Kings last book as our premise.
Objective:
The event will include a, "courageous conversation", mind mapping session asking the following 3 questions : what has been done to achieve his dream, what have we done well and what do we need to improve. Our National Day of Racial Healing event will end with voting on the top priorities from the mapping session as the action items the consortium will target as action items to fulfill Dr. Marting Luther Kings's Dream for our communities to heal.
Four panelists will engage in a dialogue focused on the theme of the program in 2024, HowWe Heal. The panelists are the CEO of the Capital Region YMCA, a pastor, professor of psychology, an expert in leadership and race equity and a pastor and founder of a nonprofit focused on healing. I will facilitate the discussion. I am a licensed social worker, retired from State Service, a certified practitioner of Healing Centered Engagement and in facilitating race equity learning exchanges.
This event is to provide space to learn from elders and ancestors through the expression of art created by Ms. Julie Dash. Her 1991 independent film "Daughters of the Dust” premiered at Sundance during a time when depictions of Black women were inaccurate and few. Ms. Dash wrote, directed, and produced the film and went on to win the Sundance Award for Best Cinematography. This led Ms. Dash to become the first African American woman to have a wide theatrical release. This year the Black History Month theme for the Southern Illinois University campus is “Ancestral Healing.” The theme is chosen by the Black Resource Center on campus. This movie allows us to step into a portal to learn from parts of our culture that have been forgotten and misplaced. Remembering and recalling the truth is racial healing 101 which supports us in connecting with our Ancestors. We are pleased and grateful to provide space for this course on remembering.
Join us to honor Dr. King's dream of a world free from racial and economic injustice. This conversation between Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and best-selling MLK biographer Jonathan Eig, hosted by Anne Mosle of the Aspen Institute, will explore connections between values, leadership, and social impact. What lessons of the past can guide us to ensure prosperity and well-being pass from generation to generation? How can we create a world — one Dr. King imagined in his lifetime — where all children and families are respected, valued, and encouraged to achieve their dreams?
This special event will live-streamed. Register at: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/in-conversation-with-anne-mosle-honoring-dr-king/.