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May 1, 2009
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Center for the Healing of Racism
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Upcoming!
The Center for the Healing of Racism in partnership with the City of Houston Downtown Library will take part in
The Living Library, a mobile library set up as a space for dialogue and interaction. Visitors to the Living Library are given the opportunity to speak informally with “people on loan.” The Living Library enables groups to break stereotypes by challenging the most common prejudices in a positive and humorous manner.
It is a concrete, easily transferable and affordable way of promoting tolerance and understanding.
Houston will be the fourth city in the USA to hold this event.
Location: City of Houston Downtown Library
Date: Saturday June 6, 2009
Time: 9:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M.
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The Center will conduct a Dialogue:Racism Workshop for HopeSprings, a 130-acre Retreat Center in Ohio's Southern Appalachian foothills providing intentional space for mindful, creative and healthy private group retreats, in Peebles, Ohio. Click here for the registration link.
Read a poem written by the young poet, Steven Cortez, inspired by his processing of his experiences during one of the Dialogue:Racism workshops. Click here to see the poem.
Find the new Center Newsletter on the Resources link!
"[People] hate each other because they fear each other, and they fear each other because they don't know each other, and they don't know each other because they are often separated from each other."
—Dr. Martin Luther King
Past Events
Dialogue on Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" January 19, 2009
Workshop dialogue on Healing the Hurts of the Campaign: Where do we Go From Here? November 2008.
Fall Dialogue: Racism workshop, September 27 and October 4, 2008
The Center for the Healing of Racism was honored by the Anti-Defamation League as Building a Community of Respect. See the pictures by clicking here.
Winter Dialogue:Racism workshop, February 9 and 16, 2008
Workshop on Racism: The Crazy-Making Disease, November 3, 2007
Two-day Fall session of Dialogue:Racism, October 6 and 20, 2007
Workshop on Latin People of African Descent, September 25, 2007
Workshop on Silent Racism, August 25, 2007
Juneteenth Ally Award Luncheon, Saturday, June 16, 2007
Spring session of Dialogue:Racism workshop, Tuesday Evenings, March 20 through May 15, 2007
Dialogue on The Children's March, the Award-winning Documentary, Thursday, February 22, 2007
Winter session of Dialogue:Racism, Saturday February 17 and 24, 2007
Dialogue on Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Special workshop, Dialogue:Racism Presents Systemic Racism, Saturday, October 28, 2006
Dialogue on Race: The Power of an Illusion, a three-part documentary, Thursday Evenings, October 5 through 19, 2007
Dialogue:Racism, Tuesday Evenings, September 26 through November 14, 2006
Juneteenth Ally Award Luncheon, Saturday, June 17, 2006
Dialogue on Race: The Power of an Illusion, a three-part documentary, May 10 through 24, 2006, Houston Tx
Read the most recent newsletter
October-December 2007 issue of Dialogue, the Center newsletter
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Letters & Speeches
Read notes from Barbara Hacker's inspiring journey of Healing Racism , September 2004
Jackie Newberry's speech at the Center for the Healing of Racism's 2002 Juneteenth event
Barbara Hacker shares her thoughts about the tragic events of September 11, 2001
Barbara Hacker's 1999 speech for the Tenth Anniversary of the Center for the Healing of Racism "Ten Years Later"