PARTICIPATE IN ACTIVITIES FOR THE NATIONAL DAY OF RACIAL HEALING TRHT Greater Chicago to host racial healing circles across the city
TUESDAY, JANUARY 21 - THURSDAY, JANUARY 23.
PARTICIPATE IN ACTIVITIES FOR THE NATIONAL DAY OF RACIAL HEALING TRHT Greater Chicago to host racial healing circles across the city
WHAT: The National Day of Racial Healing is Tuesday, January 21. Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Greater Chicago are bringing together people from throughout the city - concerned citizens, business leaders, faith leaders, nonprofit and government leaders, artists, and community organizers - to kick off a citywide effort to confront and heal from racism.
TRHT Greater Chicago will host 3-days of city wide racial healing circles at community centers, government agencies, nonprofits, schools, corporations, and more. Racial healing circles are designed to raise awareness, consciousness and empathy among those who participate.
WHEN:
January 21-23, 2020
WHERE: Various locations. Visit website for more information.
Sign up to host a circle (organizations)
Sign up to participate in a circle (individuals)
RSVP to attend the NDORH culmination event - Solidarity Heals CommUNITY Celebration featuring guest speakers and musical entertainment, by Chicago’s own Funkadesi.
BACKGROUND:
January 21, 2020 is the fourth annual National Day of Racial Healing. The day was established in January 2017 by more than 550 leaders from throughout the United States. All across the country people are marking this day in powerful and moving ways, with events and actions of all kinds.
MORE INFORMATION: So many of the problems plaguing Chicago - violence, troubled schools, health, wealth and opportunity gaps – are rooted in racism that is embedded in our city’s history. The dehumanization of people of color throughout our city’s past and present has caused forced separation, racial inequity, and injustice that impacts our economy, neighborhoods and relationships. This racism is so obvious to some, but not to others.
Racial healing recognizes the need to acknowledge and tell the truth about past wrongs created by individual and systemic racism and address the present consequences. We believe it is essential to pursue racial healing prior to doing change making work in a community. Because, before we can transform systems and structures, we must do the work on ourselves/our people FIRST.
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