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 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.
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.
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.
The National Day of Racial Healing is part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation efforts. Learn more
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To realize a society free of systemic injustice, we must come together to heal, exploring and unraveling the deeply held racial biases of the past.
Join us for the live premiere of the National Day of Racial Healing on Jan. 19 at 3 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. PST.
The National Day of Racial Healing is part of Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation