CARRBORO, NC -- Mayor Barbara Foushee has proclaimed Jan. 16, the Tuesday following Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as the National Day of Racial Healing in Carrboro and encourages all residents to share ideas, knowledge, and points of view related to truth, racial healing, transformation, and racial equity.
As part of the proclamation, Mayor Foushee invites residents to attend the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration on Saturday, Jan. 13, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Carrboro Century Center, 100 N. Greensboro St. Learn more at https://www.carrboronc.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2603
National Day of Racial Healing is an annual observance initiated as part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation program and promoted by the program’s many community partners across the United States. It is a way to promote relationship-building, truth telling, and racial equity; healing and solidarity; and transformative action.
The Carrboro proclamation states: “We understand and recognize that we all must work earnestly and intentionally to heal the wounds created by racial, ethnic, and religious bias and build an equitable and just society in which all people can thrive and in which children have the opportunity to learn and grow in nurturing environments that safeguard their safety, dignity and humanity.”