National Day of Racial Healing
January 21, 2025
National Day of Racial Healing
January 21, 2025, marks the eight annual National Day of Racial Healing (NDORH). On this day, individuals, organizations and communities across the U.S. come together to explore their common humanity and build the relationships necessary to create a more just and equitable world.
The National Day of Racial Healing is a time to contemplate our shared values and create the blueprint together for #HowWeHeal from the effects of racism. Launched in 2017, it is an opportunity to bring ALL people together and inspire collective action to build common ground for a more just and equitable world.
Racial healing serves as both a powerful tool and a transformative process, enabling communities to celebrate our shared humanity, confront the truths of our interconnected history, and unlock our collective potential. It fosters trust, meaningful connections, and unity, paving the way for systemic transformation and a future rooted in equity for generations to come.
By openly acknowledging and addressing the truths of individual and systemic racism, racial healing creates the space for honest dialogue, understanding, and reconciliation. It’s a practice of coming together to recognize past wrongs and the harm they’ve caused, enabling communities to move forward with strength and purpose.
Through racial healing, communities can restore wholeness, build bridges, and affirm the inherent value of all people. It is essential to racial equity, laying the groundwork to reimagine systems and structures so they reflect justice, inclusion, and the shared aspirations of humanity.
The National Day of Racial Healing (NDORH) is an opportunity for people, organizations, and communities to call for racial healing, bring people together in their shared humanity and take action together to create a more just and equitable world.
NDORH is a part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation effort, a national and community-based process to plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change, and to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism.