Racial Healing:
the Heart of
Racial Equity
Connect. Build Relationships. Bridge Divides.
Connect.
Build Relationships.
Bridge Divides.
Watch the 2023 Townhalls
Again or for the First Time
National Day of Racial Healing: An MSNBC Town Hall can be seen on MSNBC’s YouTube channel. MSNBC’s Joy Reid, Chris Hayes and Trymaine Lee were joined by Minnijean Brown-Trickey, activist and member of the Little Rock Nine, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times Magazine and creator of the landmark 1619 Project, and White House Infrastructure Coordinator former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, among others.
Noticias Telemundo’s Johana Suárez and Lori Montenegro moderated Foro contra el Racismo: Día de Sanación, a Spanish-language town hall, now available on Noticias Telemundo’s YouTube channel.
Racial Healing
Racial healing restores individuals and communities to wholeness. Racial healing repairs the damage caused by racism. It facilitates trust, builds authentic relationships and bridges divides.
Racial healing is at the heart of racial equity – the people work that leads to community, organizational and systems transformation.
Engage in Racial Healing Year-round
Racial healing takes more than one day. Any time is a good time to bring people together, cultivate trust, build relationships or tell true stories about your community or organization’s racial past.
Bring racial healing to schools, libraries, parks and recreation centers, and faith communities – or use these ideas as inspiration for your brainstorming.
Use these ideas and resources to bring racial healing to your company or local business sector, foundations & nonprofits and healthcare settings. Plus – tips for how artists & media-makers can honor the day.
Policymakers and decisionmakers play a critical role in building fair and just communities. Find ideas for using your voice as a leader, inviting community input for racially equitable policy planning and much more!
Facilitation tips and prompts for meaningful racial healing conversations. Ideal for dinner parties, coffee outings and breakout groups.
Watch Changing the Narrative
A 14-part digital series, Changing The Narrative, explores the subject of advancing racial equity through the experience of racial healing, produced by NBCUniversal News Group, and sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
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