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An Evening with Social Activist and Best-selling Author Patrisse Marie Cullors

University of Houston Student Center Theater 4455 University Drive, Houston

The Houston Coalition Against Hate (HCAH) in collaboration with University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work invite you to attend a day of perspective with Patrisse Marie Cullors.

Patrisse Cullors is an artist, organizer, educator, public speaker, social activist, New York Times best-selling author, and co-creator of the viral Twitter hashtag and movement, #BlackLivesMatter. A Los Angeles native, she is a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and founder of grassroots, Los Angeles based organization Dignity and Power Now.

Free

From Jamestown, Ghana to Jamestown Colony and Back

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Please join us for a panel discussion and dialogue about the continuing impact of slavery. Center member Barbara Paige will share her reflections on her family’s 2019 Year of Return trip to Ghana in memory of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the Jamestown Colony. Panelists will connect the dots between practices developed to sustain slavery and continuing inequities in our current economic, healthcare, and criminal justice systems.

Free

Waking (Let’s Talk) News

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Come share an article with us on the last Friday of the month. Bring a sack lunch and articles clipped from newspapers, magazines, journals or online publications. Anything related to discrimination, oppression and all forms of racism. Join us in a lively discussion and contribute your ideas and materials to the Center's tool kit.

$520 – $8226

“Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North”

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

The Center for the Healing of Racism will celebrate Black History Month with a screening of the film “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North.” The documentary follows filmmaker Katrina Browne as she discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain powerful new perspectives on the black/white divide.  The film will be followed by a dialogue.

Free. RSVP required. Donations appreciated

Dialogue: Racism

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Dialogue: Racism is an intensive workshop that provides a safe, respectful, and loving atmosphere where participants can learn about racism, share personal experiences, dispel fears and guilt and get to know one another.

$40

Waking (Let’s Talk) News

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Come share an article with us on the last Friday of the month. Bring a sack lunch and articles clipped from newspapers, magazines, journals or online publications. Anything related to discrimination, oppression and all forms of racism. Join us in a lively discussion and contribute your ideas and materials to the Center's tool kit.

Free

Lunch & Learn Dialogues: Racism in K-12 Education

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Bring your lunch to the Center for the Healing of Racism for a presentation by local education activist and school psychologist Sarah Becker.  The talk will be followed by a dialogue.

Free. Donations appreciated. RSVP required

Fifth Annual “Dialogue on the Plantation”

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

The fifth annual “Dialogue on the Plantations” includes guided tours of three Louisiana plantations: St. Joseph, Laura and Whitney Plantation. The latter is the site of the acclaimed Whitney Plantation Museum that pays homage to all of the enslaved Africans and their descendants who lived in the US South. The cost includes transportation on a video/WIFI bus equipped with a restroom, snacks on the bus, admission to all plantations, dinner, breakfast and an amazing learning opportunity.

$299

Waking News!

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Come share an article you found in a magazine, journal, or online resource relating to discrimination, oppression, or any forms of racism. Then join us in a lively discussion where we engage in the complexities of racism and how we can all heal from it.

Free. RSVP required. Donations appreciated

Lunch & Learn Dialogues: Racism Higher Education

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Bring your lunch to the Center for the Healing of Racism on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 11:45 AM to 1:15 PM, for a presentation by Stephen Cherry, PhD, a sociology professor at UH Clear Lake, about Racism in Higher Education. The talk will be followed by a dialogue.

Free. RSVP required. Donations appreciated

Waking News!

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Come share an article you found in a magazine, journal, or online resource relating to discrimination, oppression, or any forms of racism. Then join us in a lively discussion where we engage in the complexities of racism and how we can all heal from it.

$2019

the black SIT

the black SIT
gather. grieve. rest. restore.
w/ Zen teacher Rev. angel Kyodo williams

Waking News!

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Come share an article you found in a magazine, journal, or online resource relating to discrimination, oppression, or any forms of racism. Then join us in a lively discussion where we engage in the complexities of racism and how we can all heal from it.

$2019

Waking News!

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Come share an article you found in a magazine, journal, or online resource relating to discrimination, oppression, or any forms of racism. Then join us in a lively discussion where we engage in the complexities of racism and how we can all heal from it.

Free. Donations appreciated. RSVP required

Waking News!

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Come share an article you found in a magazine, journal, or online resource relating to discrimination, oppression, or any forms of racism. Then join us in a lively discussion where we engage in the complexities of racism and how we can all heal from it.

Free. Donations appreciated. RSVP required

Waking News!

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Come share an article you found in a magazine, journal, or online resource relating to discrimination, oppression, or any forms of racism. Then join us in a lively discussion where we engage in the complexities of racism and how we can all heal from it.

Free. Donations appreciated. RSVP required

MFAH Virtual Films: Native Son

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1001 Bissonnet, Houston

Richard Wright’s widely praised 1940 novel exposed the injustices of Black urban life. Bigger Thomas,in prison for murder and sentenced to death, reflects back on the circumstances that led to his incarceration. This new restoration of the 1951 screen adaptation, in the film-noir genre, stars author Richard Wright as Bigger Thomas, and is being released in its original length for the first time. This new restoration of the 1951 film version is preceded by a special filmed introduction by film historians Eddie Muller (Film Noir Foundation) and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, courtesy of Turner Classic Movies.

$10

MFAH Virtual Films: Nationtime – Gary

Museum of Fine Arts Houston 1001 Bissonnet St, , Houston

In March 1972, an estimated 10,000 Black politicians, activists, artists, and performers congregated at the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana. Attendees included Amiri Baraka, Dick Gregory, Isaac Hayes, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, and Bobby Seale. William Greaves (1926–2014), the established documentarian of Black history, culture and politics, directed a camera crew and captured it all. Narrated by Sidney Poitier with poetry recited by Harry Belafonte, the film was thought at the time to be too radical for television broadcast and was drastically edited. Now restored to its original length, this essential documentary reveals a rousing, at times contentious, yet undeniably significant historical event.

$10

Waking News!

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Come share an article you found in a magazine, journal, or online resource relating to discrimination, oppression, or any forms of racism. Then join us in a lively discussion where we engage in the complexities of racism and how we can all heal from it.

Free. Donations appreciated. RSVP required