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Last Update:
May 9, 2008
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Center for the Healing of Racism
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Upcoming!
A fundraising Tea on May 18! Reconnect with other Center members!
Tea Time! Long time Center members Ife Mawusi and Felecia Jordan will hold a fundraising tea in their home on May 18 from 3-6. This fundraising tea has been a favorite annual event for all the years Ife has been putting it on. It gives Center members a chance to reconnect and to recommit themselves to the work of the Center. Please, join us and bring a friend!
Email the Center for information and directions.
10th Anniversary Tribute to James Byrd Jr. of Jasper, Texas on June 7
On June 7, 1998, James Byrd Jr. was murdered when he was chained
to a truck and dragged three miles through the outskirts of Jasper, Texas by
three white supremacists. The Center for the Healing of Racism in Partnership with James Byrd Jr Family and James Byrd Jr Oral History Project Presents: "Nooses:
A History of Lynching"
Monday, June 2nd at 7:00 p.m.
Cullen Oaks Community Center
4600 Cullen Blvd. Houston, TX 77004.
Located within the Cullen Oaks Apartment Complex.
Performances by Jimmie L. Moore Jr., Vocalist, Composer and Pianist.
Speakers are family members of James Byrd Jr., Lani Silver, director of James Byrd Jr. Oral History Project, from San Francisco, CA., Michael Ingram and Cherry Steinwender, Co-Director Center for Healing Racism.
This event is free and open to the public we always welcome donations to keep our work going. Please reply to this email if you and your friends are planning on attending.
Spring Dialogue:Racism from March till May 2008
The Spring Dialogue:Racism workshop, held in an eight-week format, began on Monday, March 24, at 7PM at the Metropolitan Community Church at 2025 West 11th Street. It will continue on Monday evenings until its last meeting on May 12. Click here for the flier.
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
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
* You will need Acrobat Reader for many links throughout this website. If you do not have it, you can get it here .
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"