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YWCA Evanston/North Shore’s Equity Institute presents Racial Healing Week

A week of free events and reflection centered on the work of Mariame Kaba who offers another vision of leadership, another vision of community, another vision of safety, and another vision of care.

What work can we do within our community to end systemic inequity, restore wholeness, and repair damage? Invite your network of family, friends, colleagues, and community members to participate with you as we build upon our shared values and raise necessary questions.

Inspired by the National Day of Racial Healing, launched in 2017, YWCA Evanston/North Shore’s Equity Institute presents Racial Healing Week – a week of events and reflection dedicated to elevating the work needed to end systemic inequity, restore wholeness, and repair damage. This week-long series is an opportunity to bring people together and inspire collective action to create a more just and equitable world. Let’s shift mindsets together through the expansion of our understanding and imagination of the communities we want to live in.

We encourage you and your network of family, friends, colleagues, and community members to participate as we build upon our shared values and create the blueprint together for #HowWeHeal from the effects of racism.

2023 Racial Healing Week Virtual Events

Wed, Jan 18, 2023 12-1 PM CST
You are invited to join YWCA Evanston/North Shore for this special virtual edition of our monthly Let’s Talk at Lunch series, where we learn and practice talking THROUGH the issue of racism (instead of around it).

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Wed, Jan 18, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CST & Wed, Feb 1, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CST

“Let’s ask, ‘What can we imagine for ourselves and the world?’ If we do that, then boundless possibilities of a more just world await us.” -Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba’s book, We Do This Til We Free Us explores social transformation and liberation. In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle. Join YWCA Evanston/North Shore’s Equity Institute to discuss how we can use these ideas of transformative change to make a difference in our community.

We encourage all attendees to purchase the book here.

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Thu, Jan 19, 12-1:30 PM CST

Join YWCA Evanston North Shore’s Equity Institute as we welcome organizer, educator, archivist and curator Mariame Kaba. Kaba’s work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice and supporting youth leadership development. She will be joining us to discuss racial healing and the impact of healing work on our community.

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Other events in the community

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