Creating New Opportunities for Racial Healing

By Ashanti Bryan | Word In Black (WIB) – On Dec. 31, my family and I rang in the new year watching movies, eating pizza, playing board games and talking. Yet something about  the arrival of 2024, and all that faces Black America in the year ahead, was sobering. From growing white extremism and backsliding on democracy to the demolition of affirmative action and destruction of Black history in schools, our community stands at a crossroads in our collective journey toward the American dream.  RELATED: In Florida, This Is What it Takes to Stop Book Bans Without a doubt, 2024 presents a number of opportunities to reflect on the state of our kids and families — including the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling and 10 years since a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.& The impacts of systemic and individual racism on the Black community are devastating. Yet& while we work to disrupt the status quo, we cannot minimize nor neglect creating spaces that foster listening, healing and new narratives for how we relate in our communities.& Since 2017, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has sponsored the annual& National...