This facilitated dialogue, sponsored by our Board, will examine structural racism through the lens of whiteness and privilege. We will pose questions encouraging self-reflection and discourse upon issues of fragility, microaggressions and personal and collective responsibility. It will conclude with sharing strategies for working towards reconciliation and justice. One of many that will be held nationwide during the National Week of Racial Healing, our dialogue circle is coordinated by Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Los Angeles, and is open to the Los Angeles community. Initiated by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, TRHT is a comprehensive, 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. TRHT seeks to unearth and jettison the deeply held, and often unconscious, beliefs created by racism – the main one being the belief in a “hierarchy of human value.”

A light lunch will be served prior to the circle. Participants must register at https://www.racialequityla.org/programs-events/2020/1/20/confronting-structural-racism-in-traditionally-white-spaces-a-facilitated-dialogue. 

For further information, please contact Audrey Lyness.