New partnership with actor Colman Domingo aims to inspire year-round conversations on racial healing

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(PRNewswire) – BATTLE CREEK, Michigan – As part of its enduring commitment to racial healing, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has launched a partnership with Academy Award-nominated actor Colman Domingo to bring a new voice to its signature National Day of Racial Healing, observed every year on the Tuesday following Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The partnership advances the foundation’s aim to inspire year-round conversation and action to advance racial healing.The Kellogg Foundation established the National Day of Racial Healing to honor people and communities nationwide who are working to heal from the effects of racism, especially the inequities within systems that deeply affect children, families and their surrounding community members – food, health, education and the economy.Racial healing is the “people work” necessary for achieving racial equity. Racial healing is the practice of reflecting on personal experiences, confronting past wrongs and present consequences, and cultivating trustful relationships with the goal of creating solutions to big challenges.“With the systems that support what children need to thrive now at the forefront of national, election-related conversations, it is essential that we commit to doing the people work of racial healing,” said WKKF President and CEO La June Montgomery Tabron.Academy Award-Nominated Actor Colman Domingo...

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