US Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Movement

04/18/2024

Honored to work alongside Marcus Hunter. You inspire me to keep pressing towards the mark. Special thanks to Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and Science Museum of Minnesota.

04/16/2024

Just landed in Minnesota honored to be worrking alongside Marcus Hunter Christian Green and Alex Jones.…Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and Science Musuem Of Minnesota.

The Science Museum of Minnesota and the Smithsonian Institution have partnered to host a three-day convening centered around racial justice, coming April 2024.

09/25/2023

I’m honored to have been invited to speak at the Global Summit Sept 27-29 in Pittsburgh. The Summit brings together experts from across the globe to change the way we combat hate and extremism. To learn more and join me in Pittsburgh, visit https://eradicatehatesummit.org.

08/28/2023

06/05/2022

From our National Co-Chair Charles L. Chavis Jr. “Today the Truth was told and we moved one step closer in the fight for racial healing and Justice. Deeply honored to co-lead the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission alongside Dr. David Fakunle . We are forever grateful to the descendants of Howard Cooper and his story will not be forgotten. “ Maryland Lynching Memorial Project The John Mitchell Jr. Program for History, Justice and Race

The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission held a hearing on the 1885 lynching of a Black boy Saturday.

03/18/2022

On February 28—the last day of Black History Month 2022—supporters of H. Con. Res. 19 (to establish a US Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Commission) and H.R. 40 (to establish a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans) are joining with the movement for a national call-in day asking President Biden for immediate executive action on these commissions. And they are asking that he signal this intention during the March 1 State of the Union address.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joined the US Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Movement (TRHT) movement in 2021 and fully supports executive action to create these two, mutually reinforcing commissions. In particular, research libraries support the mission to “properly acknowledge, memorialize, and be a catalyst for progress toward jettisoning the belief in a hierarchy of human value, embracing our common humanity, and permanently eliminating persistent racial inequities.” ARL member institutions are trusted sources of information and data, and curators of the historical and cultural record. Our collections are filled with source material and evidence that can inform and shape a Truth Commission, and we stand ready to contribute our expertise to shaping the envisioned US Archive of Racial and Cultural Healing.

Please consider taking action on Monday, February 28!

https://www.arl.org/news/day-of-action-to-urge-white-house-to-create-truth-and-reparations-commissions-via-executive-action/

03/18/2022

03/18/2022

Events around racial justice still present themselves in divisive ways including our health care system, rampant racialized policing, the dismantling and suppressing of voting rights. Help and push for the creation of a US TRHT Commission via the US Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Movement

03/18/2022

ASALH is excited to present, on March 30th, the virtual screening of "Hidden in Full View," with Charles L. Cha is, Jr., national co-chair of the US Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Movement & author of "The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State." https://bit.ly/3pgVNdJ

Chavis will discuss the process of researching and writing "The Silent Shore," outline a vision for a distributed Archive of Racial and Cultural Healing, and engage in a panel discussion with national leaders in the & community: Lopez D. Matthews, Jr., Howard University Libraries HUL , and Elaine Elaine Westbrooks, UNC University Libraries.

Please register for this screening by March 23: https://bit.ly/3pgVNdJ


This event is sponsored with the Association of Research Libraries, Howard University Libraries HUL, American Library Association, Association of College & Research Libraries, Society of American Archivists, and the 1890 Land-Grant Institutions and TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY Library Deans/Directors Association, Inc. https://bit.ly/3pgVNdJ