The League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson & the YWCA of Southern Arizona are hosting a National Day of Racial Healing Community program. Everyone's invited for an afternoon of discussions, recognition to high school essay contest participants, cultural Performances, and activities for the whole family. The event is scheduled on January 13th, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the YWCA of Southern Arizona, 525 N. Bonita Ave. Tucson, AZ 85745

We’re commissioning artistic monuments and markers at sites relevant to the transatlantic slave trade in New Orleans, also constructing a sister arch to the door of no return and door of return used in Benin on their National Vodun Day. On the 14th of January, we will lead a spiritual procession with elders and priests/priestesses from different faiths (Like Vodou and Ifa as well as Mardi Gras Indians) along with drummers & will travel from the Mississippi river to Congo Square, stopping at relevant points for healing rituals, pouring of libations, spiritual songs & other cleansing ceremonies. All this will be for the sake of spiritual reparations and energetic healing and acknowledging the suffering of the ancestors that persevered through terrible times. When we arrive at Congo Square we will have an altar set up that the public can add to and we will have a large Vodou ceremony, as well as free food available and people there to register citizens to vote.

Intimate conversation among friends and neighbors using the Racial Healing Conversation Guide, hosted by the Baha'i community of Woodbury, MN

This event is marking the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. birthday through a community organized event to help facilitate racial healing and cooperation to make our community a better place for us all.

African Americans have a long history of Christianity as their belief system, however many African Americans in current American society question Christianity as the “healing balm” for their souls and/or answer to life in a society embedded with racism against African Americans. Dr Antipas Harris, Black History Month speaker, enlightens African Americans through social, theological, and historical examination of Christianity as it relates to justice, identity, culture, and racial healing.

The City of St. Louis Park, St. Louis Park Community Education, St. Louis Park Public Schools and Benilde St. Margaret's are partnering to host the second annual National Day of Racial Healing event. This program is an opportunity for children, teens, neighbors, and community members to learn about each other’s diverse backgrounds, cultures, perspectives and lived experiences. All are invited to participate in the community conversation. The program is free, and dinner will be provided. Please register in advance.

The University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service Center on Community Philanthropy will announce the recipient of the 2024 Advancing Equity Award at the 7th Advancing Equity Awards Gala, commemorating the National Day of Racial Healing on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, at 5:30 pm CST at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, AR. The Advancing Equity Award is a national award given to grassroots organizations, nonprofits, for profits, individuals or faith-based groups, who demonstrate innovative ways to promote equity and inclusion in their communities. This award seeks to encourage those who, are working to address inequalities and advance progress towards racial equity.

As a Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center and a campus committed to becoming a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning, we intentionally pause each year on January 17th to mark the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. During this time, we also honor the National Day of Racial Healing and the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. With all this to guide us, let’s collectively explore what it has meant, continues to mean, and could mean in the future to experience Hawai‘i as our home aloha, our beloved home.

We do this by engaging in the following questions:

What has made it both beautiful as well as challenging to call Hawai‘i home:
Historically?
Currently?
What can the lessons from these experiences mean for the Hawai‘i we want to shape as home for our children and grandchildren?
We will pause and engage together January 16-18, 2024 by sharing stories, listening deeply, creating art, making connections, building relationships, and sharing meals together.

Our pause is inspired and shaped by the following quotes:
“Never cease to act because you fear you may fail.” – Queen Liliʻuokalani

“…the end is the creation of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opposers into friends. It is this type of understanding goodwill that will transform the deep gloom of the old age into the exuberant gladness of the new age. It is this love which will bring about miracles in the hearts of men.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“What will your community look like when racism has been jettisoned?” – W. K. Kellogg Foundation

Austin Public Library Celebrates Third Annual 2024 National Day Of Racial Healing !

GovState National Day of Racial Healing event will include a keynote speaker, racial healing beads, a little book on racial healing, and a racial healing circle.