Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Events
Introduction to White Accountability
Thursday, January 30, 2025
2:30–3:30 p.m.
Open to faculty, staff, students, and community members of all races and ethnicities
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White Accountability Groups are for people who identify as white and/or have white skin privilege to explore how to recognize whiteness and white privilege, identify and interrupt internalized dominance, and collectively develop strategies for liberation and change. We utilize a methodology developed by Dr. Kathy Obear to make whiteness more visible and explore real strategies for social change on our campus and in our broader community.
Race-Conscious Dialogues Workshop
Thursday, February 6, 2025
5:00–6:00 p.m
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Open to faculty, staff, students, and community members of all races and ethnicities
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This workshop will introduce participants to having conversations about race from a place of critical consciousness and cultural humility.
Critical Whiteness for BIPOC folks
Thursday, February 13, 2025
5:00–6:00 p.m
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This is an Affinity Space open to faculty, staff, students, and community members identifying as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Person of Color)
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This session is for BIPOC individuals to understand racism as a system built on the myth of white supremacy and to develop the tools to dismantle that system. This is affinity-based work open to individuals who identify as BIPOC.
Radical Love Event with Hip Hop F.I.R.M
Friday, February 14, 2025
12:00–1:00 p.m.
Open to faculty, staff, students, and community members of all races and ethnicities
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The Radical Love Institute is a training intended for faculty, staff, and community stakeholders to build Justice, Equity and Inclusion (JEI). We explore Critical Race Theory (CRT), Trauma Informed Practice & Care (TIPC) and The Hip Hop Phenomenon with the founder of the F.I.R.M., Cortez Watson. Participants develop revolutionary consciousness, critical cultural consciousness and critical self-identity to support a more inclusive campus climate through Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation.
Black Legacy Project
Thursday, February 20, 2025
5:00–6:00 p.m. Racial Healing Circles
Open to faculty, staff, students, and community members of all races and ethnicities
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Rx Racial Healing Circles are an experiential process by which, through story-telling and deep listening, we can embrace our common humanity, learn to see ourselves in one another, and approach difficult issues through the lens of empathy and compassion. Rx Racial Healing Circles provide opportunities to engage with perceived others to build trust and deepen relationships, enabling self-reflection and acknowledgment of one’s previously unquestioned assumptions and biases.
Black Legacy Project Concert
Thursday, February 20, 2025
7:30–8:30 p.m.
Lund Auditorium
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Celebrate Black history and foster racial solidarity, equity, and belonging at Dominican University Performing Arts Center with the Black Legacy Project (Black LP). Produced by Music in Common, this inspiring musical event has toured seven U.S. communities, bringing together artists from diverse backgrounds to reinterpret and create songs central to the Black American experience.
Join us for an unforgettable evening featuring an extraordinary lineup, including Krishna Guthrie, Jessica Joy Harned, Everett James Harrell, Zoe Moff, Tyvaurus Owten, Ashley Rose, Jakob Schaffer, and Page Williams. Together, they will deliver powerful performances that echo the calls for change of our time.
Immerse yourself in the universal language of music, and witness the collective voices of the Black LP Experience come alive. Don’t miss this chance to be part of a nationwide movement that strengthens, empowers, and connects communities through song.
Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation at Dominican University
Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) is a nationally recognized, community-based initiative for racial justice. Dominican was named a TRHT Campus Center in 2020 by the AAC&U.
Dominican University is a small, Catholic, Liberal Arts and Hispanic Serving Institution. Some of the major barriers to becoming an antiracist HSI have been a lack of critical consciousness and cultural humility, as well as a need to understand how white supremacy culture operates. Dominican is grappling with: How do we disrupt ideas, policy and practices that maintain racial inequity within our community? How do we do so through a theological lens that is grounded in our Catholic, Dominican charism? One of the pillars of Truth Racial Healing, and Transformation is narrative change, which impels us to take a critical look at whose stories we center, how we construct space, and what traditions we uphold. Through this work, we’re examining previously marginalized narratives and finding that many of our stories, traditions, and spaces are reflective of a colonial and hierarchical framework that delegitimizes perspectives and ways of being that are not white, European, or Christian. Antiracism requires complete and accurate stories that honor the full complexity of our humanity.