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#HowWeHeal: Richmond
Richmond, Virginia, is one of the places working on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. As a city steeped in confederate past, TRHT Richmond is using its history as a meeting place for understanding each other and using the arts to unearth the past and envision a new future together for all people.
How can we, using art as a vehicle for connection, communicate our stories and histories to foster understanding and heal? Share your ideas on social media with #HowWeHeal.
#HowWeHeal: Battle Creek
Battle Creek, Michigan, is one of the places working on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Through affinity dinners and by addressing discrimination in housing, racial healing is happening in identity groups and across the entire community. Safe spaces for sharing openly and honestly about racial issues cultivate unique opportunities for racial healing.
How can we create safe spaces so that we can come together to heal? Share your ideas on social media with #HowWeHeal.
#HowWeHeal: Selma
Selma, Alabama, is one of the places working on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Its community history is rich and includes significant moments from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. But the path to justice and racial equity has left many wounds from which the community is still healing. Hope is emerging as they use circles as a way to pursue restorative justice within local schools.
How can we come together to heal? Share your ideas on social media with #HowWeHeal.
HIGHLIGHTS 2020: National Day of Racial Healing
See highlights from our 2020 National Day of Racal Healing event in Washington, DC.
Youth leaders talk about racism, power, democracy and the Census
Hear from inspiring young change-makers who started making a difference as early as age 12. And learn about how Census 2020 gives everyone a chance to be seen and counted. As award-winning writer and president of Demos, K. Sabeel Rahman says, “Racism is about power and policy and we have a democracy that’s been built to systematically exclude Black and Brown people.” Being counted addresses that marginalization.
Together we can bridge the divides to transform communities for our children and future generations. Together, this is #HowWeHeal.
Racial healing through arts and culture
“We are deciding now the kind of ancestors we want to be,” says moderator, writer, speaker and columnist Jamilah Lemieux.
“You are a blessing, no matter what the world says about your culture, heritage or being,” says Jerry Tello, a nationally known writer, educator and healer.
In this incredibly moving discussion, artists describe how they “do it for the culture,” using the arts to tell the truth about present and historic injustices, drawing inspiration from the ancestors and cultivating self-love. Together, this is #HowWeHeal.
Indigenous activist Connie Brownotter talks about racial equity and the power of young people
Indigenous activist and Montana State University student, Connie Brownotter talks with Lindsay Peoples Wagner about the power of young people to initiate racial healing conversations on their campuses. She also reflects on the importance of embracing cultural identity as a part of racial healing.
Through racial healing, we recognize our common humanity, acknowledge our truths from our shared history, and recognize our collective potential and shared values.
The National Day of Racial Healing was established by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in 2017 to promote healing as a critical path for ending racial bias and creating a society in which all children can thrive. This annual outreach grew out of WKKF’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation effort, a national and community-based process designed to bring transformational and sustainable change to communities, while addressing the historic and contemporary effects of racism.
Together, this is #HowWeHeal.
Acknowledging the Indigenous lands surrounding Washington D.C.
The Indigenous lands of the Piscataway-Conoy Tribe surrounding Washington D.C. are acknowledged as the setting for the fourth annual National Day of Racial Healing. Rico Newman of the Piscataway-Conoy Tribe welcomes the audience to the lands and waterways that are “archaeological, historical and spiritual lands integral to the expression and transmission of the living cultural practices and beliefs of the Piscataway people.”
The National Day of Racial Healing is rooted in experiences for truth-telling and trust building that lead to racial healing for a more just, and equitable future.
The National Day of Racial Healing was established by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in 2017 to promote healing as a critical path for ending racial bias and creating a society in which all children can thrive. This annual outreach grew out of WKKF’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation effort, a national and community-based process designed to bring transformational and sustainable change to communities, while addressing the historic and contemporary effects of racism.
Together, this is #HowWeHeal.
#HowWeHeal: Flint
In the wake of the Flint water crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, borne of deep racial inequities, city and community leaders in Flint, Michigan came together to rebuild trust and lay the groundwork to rebuild systems within their city. With the help of racial healing practitioners, the residents of Flint developed a new partnership that would promote public housing initiatives, racial equity in approaches to address COVID-19 and racial healing circles where local police began to do deep reflective work. This is #HowWeHeal.
The National Day of Racial Healing 2021
Watch the live premiere of the 5th annual National Day of Racial Healing. The conversations presented in this program took place before the recent events at the U.S. Capitol and beyond – events that have only validated this movement, and caused many more people to ask: what will it take for our country to heal? You will hear answers to this question, from people doing this work across the nation.
The National Day of Racial Healing, observed annually, is dedicated to exploring the ongoing work of #HowWeHeal from the effects of racism. Launched on Jan. 17, 2017, it is an opportunity to bring all people together in our common humanity and inspire collective action to create a more just and equitable world.
This annual day is hosted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) and was created with and builds on the work and learnings of the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) community partners. It is held every year on the Tuesday following Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.