In celebration of 

Jewish American Heritage Month

Presents

Black Jewish Americans

Just about every person who is Black and Jewish has inevitably been met with surprise upon sharing their identities.

Widespread misconceptions linger among Jews and non-Jews who believe that Jews cannot be Black, or that there are vanishingly few Black Jews. In fact, Black Jews have lived and made history in the United States and Canada since the 17th century. According to W.E.B Du Bois’ A Chronicle of Race Relations, the first Jewish resident of New England was Sollomon, a Black Jew who arrived in England in 1668.

May 1, 2025 at 6:30 pm

3412 Crawford Street, Houston Tx 77004

The sessions are free and open to the public. Park in HCC lot #9. Donations welcome to keep the work going. Pre- registration is required.

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Four out of five indigenous women are affected by violence today, with murder rates more than 10 times the national average. So why don’t we hear more about this shocking issue?

Join us as we close out Women’s History Month with an important discussion on the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women’s (MMIW) crisis that has been a problem through generations. An issue the Indigenous community has been fighting for decades. Jodi Voice Yellowfish and Christy Swimmer McLemore of MMIWTX Rematriate will discuss the crisis – past, present and future. From the Indian Relocation Act, federal policies, current issues faced by the Native community, and share resources. A facilitated dialogue will follow.

Free and open to the public with donations encouraged. To donate click here.

Online registration is closed. To receive a Zoom link please email cfhr2019@yahoo.com before 5:00PM Central Monday March 28.

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Join us for a presentation facilitated by Cherry Steinwender, Executive Director of the Center for the Healing of Racism, and Stephen Cherry, associate professor of sociology at University of Houston Clear Lake.  To register, please email cfhr1@juno.com.

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27th Annual Juneteenth Ally Award Celebration

Please join the Center for the Healing of Racism as we celebrate Juneteenth 2020 with

– The history of Juneteenth, presented by Madison Trice

– Blues Music by Marcy Jowosky Sweet Mama Cotton

– Spoken Word Artist Performance by Calvin King

– Presentation of our 2020 Ally Award to, and acceptance speech by, KEVIN LOCKE
(Tokeya Inajin is his Lakota name, meaning “The First to Arise”) is known throughout the world as a visionary Hoop Dancer, the preeminent player of the indigenous Northern Plains flute, a traditional storyteller, cultural ambassador, recording artist and educator. Says Kevin: “Indigenous North American tradition lacks the concept of arts as entertainment. As an Indigenous North American residing and performing mostly in North America it is challenging to operate in a dominant culture with values and esthetics so diametrically different to the millennia old spiritual heritage of this land. At this late point in my career, it is enriching to present at school settings conducive to educating around underlying spirit, long established in pre-immigrant North America. So often in the contemporary culture of North America, the arts are used as a distraction, something trivial, superfluous or relegated to a means of escaping reality. In Indigenous North America the arts, especially music, is the primary means of connecting to that which is universal, eternal, holy and good… the means of connecting to that which is real and escaping the shadow world of imagination which is destined to fade and disappear. I aspire to present the authentic North American artistic traditions used to connect humankind to the natural world, to meld the physical and secular to the sacred and eternal, to bridge the perceived gap that separates the generations, to bring all people into hoop of life. Every people and culture has folk arts; expressions that have been passed down intergenerational and over time have come portray universal human values of beauty, balance, symmetry, unity. During my 40 year touring career to nearly 100 countries I have found that folk arts have universal validity and appreciation that transcend the vortex of pop culture. It is as if our ancestors are calling out to us and enabling us to offer these gifts as contributions to an emerging global civilization.

My aim as an artist who reaches a primarily younger (school age) audience is to encourage and inspire this younger generation to a global vision in which they see themselves as integral and active participants.”

You will have a chance to meet our Board of Directors and hear from our Executive Director Cherry Steinwender.

The event is free and donations are greatly appreciated. To donate click here. Pre-registration is required.

Learn more about Juneteenth

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Explore emotions and responses to current events in a safe environment utilizing art therapy exercises for the healing of racism. Facilitators: Helen Spaw, MPS and Rev. Nataly Negrete

 Monthly on the following Thursdays

January 16, 2020

February 20, 2020

March 19, 2020

April 16, 2020

To RSVP email Helen Spaw at hspaw@stpaulshouston.org

Healing Circles help us step out of ordinary time into a safe and accepting environment in which to explore our healing. We treat each other with kindness and respect. We listen with compassion and curiosity. We honor each other’s unique ways to healing and don’t presume to advise or fix or try to save each other. We hold all stories shared in the Circle confidential. We trust that each of us has the guidance we need within us and we rely on the power of silence to access it. We practice: Listening with attention. Speaking with intention. Tending to the well- being of the circle.

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Explore emotions and responses to current events in a safe environment utilizing art therapy exercises for the healing of racism. Facilitators: Helen Spaw, MPS and Rev. Nataly Negrete

 Monthly on the following Thursdays

January 16, 2020

February 20, 2020

March 19, 2020

April 16, 2020

Street parking or parking on Lot 9

To RSVP email Helen Spaw at hspaw@stpaulshouston.org

Healing Circles help us step out of ordinary time into a safe and accepting environment in which to explore our healing. We treat each other with kindness and respect. We listen with compassion and curiosity. We honor each other’s unique ways to healing and don’t presume to advise or fix or try to save each other. We hold all stories shared in the Circle confidential. We trust that each of us has the guidance we need within us and we rely on the power of silence to access it. We practice: Listening with attention. Speaking with intention. Tending to the well- being of the circle.

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Explore emotions and responses to current events in a safe environment utilizing art therapy exercises for the healing of racism. Facilitators: Helen Spaw, MPS and Rev. Nataly Negrete

 Monthly on the following Thursdays

January 16, 2020

February 20, 2020

March 19, 2020

April 16, 2020

10:00 – 11:30 am

3412 Crawford St

Houston TX 77004

Parking on Lot 9

To RSVP email Helen Spaw at hspaw@stpaulshouston.org

For more information about the process:

https://healingcircleshouston.org/

https://healingcirclesglobal.org/

Healing Circles help us step out of ordinary time into a safe and accepting environment in which to explore our healing. We treat each other with kindness and respect. We listen with compassion and curiosity. We honor each other’s unique ways to healing and don’t presume to advise or fix or try to save each other. We hold all stories shared in the Circle confidential. We trust that each of us has the guidance we need within us and we rely on the power of silence to access it. We practice: Listening with attention. Speaking with intention. Tending to the well- being of the circle.

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Join us for a Dialogue and Book signing with Joel Edward Goza, author of America’s Unholy Ghosts. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

America’s Unholy Ghosts examines a philosophical “trinity”–Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Adam Smith–whose works collectively helped to institutionalize, imagine, and ingrain racist ideologies into the hearts and minds of the American people. As time passed, America’s racial imagination evolved to form people incapable of recognizing their addiction to racist ideas. Thus, Ghosts comes to a close with the brilliant faith and politics of Martin Luther King, Jr. who sought to write the conscience of the Prophetic Black Church onto American hearts, minds, and laws. If our nation’s racist instincts still haunt our land, so too do our hopes and desires for a faith and politics marked by mercy, justice, and equity–and there is no better guide to that land than the Prophetic Black Church and the one who saw such a land from the mountaintop.

3412 Crawford Street, Parking in Lot 9
Free but donations are greatly appreciated.
RSVP is required – see below.

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Representatives from Pure Justice will be available to discuss resources
for formerly incarcerated people as well as how individuals can join their movement.

Learn more about Pure Justice here or here

This event is free and open to the public with donations greatly appreciated. After you register, we will email you the Zoom link.

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REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS CLOSED.  PLEASE SIGN UP FOR THE ENCORE EVENT ON JULY 24 at NOON by clicking here

RACISM IN THE ARTS

A conversation with Harrison Guy.  Topics may include disproportional arts funding, black bodies in white spaces, appropriation, inclusion, erasure, or other related topics.

This event is free and open to the public with donations greatly appreciated.  To donate, click here.

Harrison Guy is a native of La Marque, TX. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Urban Souls Dance Company, a modern dance company here in Houston, TX. In 2016 he launched Houston’s first African American Dance Festival and was one of Houston’s 12 Individual artist grant recipients which allowed him to create Between Two Worlds: A Hymn for Black Gay Men on Race, Religion, and Rites of Passage. He currently serves as Director of Arts and Culture for the 5^th Ward Community.

As a Community Organizer, Harrison has served on Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Quality of Life Transition Committee, Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Inaugural LGBTQ Advisory Board (serving as chair of the Communication & Events Committee and now serving as Chair of the Advisory Board), and the Democratic National Committee’s LGBT Advisory Board. He is a member of the Houston GLBT Political Caucus, NAACP (young adult committee), Third Ward Community Cloth (Arts Thread), and is National President of Delta Phi Upsilon Fraternity, the first Greek lettered organization for gay men of color. Of all of his accomplishments, Harrison is most proud of his title as Husband. He married the love his life, Adrian Homer on their 10 year anniversary as a couple, where Mayor Sylvester Turner was present to declare April 15 as Homer-Guy Day in Houston. Last year, Harrison launched the Black LGBTQ Houston History & Heritage Project which includes the Charles Law Community Archives at The African American Library at The Gregory School. The archive seeks to document and preserve Houston’s Black LGBTQ History.

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