Community Healing Network, Inc.
In August of 2019, the Truth Tour will arrive in Richmond, Virginia, where we will host the 2019 Valuing Black Lives Global Emotional Emancipation Summit. We will join in observances of the 400th anniversary of the first forced arrival of Africans in the United States to reflect on our past, and we will focus on shaping our future by issuing a Call to the African Union and the Diaspora to join the movement for emotional emancipation-- for complete freedom for Black people. The next stop after Richmond will be Ghana, West Africa.
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The Truth Campaign and Tour
Happy Tuesday, CHN Friends. And Happy Juneteenth.
For the last three Tuesdays, we have been talking about our vision of a transformed future for Black children. This Tuesday, on the 153rd anniversary of Juneteenth, we want to share with you CHN’s plans for making that vision real.
August 2019 will be the 400th anniversary of the first forced arrival of Africans in the colony of Virginia. Since 2006, when we launched CHN, our aim has been to engage a critical mass of Black people in the journey toward emotional emancipation by August 2019, so that by the year 2020, we as a people will begin to see ourselves in a whole new light.
Toward that end, we are preparing to launch a multi-city global Truth Campaign and Tour. The goal of the Tour is to equip Black parents, teachers, and leaders of community-based organizations across the African Diaspora to help Black children “defy the lie of Black inferiority and embrace the truth of Black humanity.”
The Tour will be launched from New Haven, Connecticut, CHN’s birthplace, this September. With our principal ally, the Association of Black Psychologists, we will travel to key cities across the Diaspora—presenting a weekend retreat for Black parents and teachers, and workshops for leaders of community-based organizations, and inviting Black people to sign our pledge to “Defy the Lie and Embrace the Truth.”
In August of 2019, the Truth Tour will arrive in Richmond, Virginia, where we will host the 2019 Valuing Black Lives Global Emotional Emancipation Summit. We will join in observances of the 400th anniversary of the first forced arrival of Africans in the United States to reflect on our past, and we will focus on shaping our future by issuing a Call to the African Union and the Diaspora to join the movement for emotional emancipation-- for complete freedom for Black people. The next stop after Richmond will be Ghana, West Africa.
June 19th is the day on which, it is said, the last enslaved Black people in the United States (in Galveston, Texas) learned that they had been “emancipated.” Ever since, June 19 has been celebrated in many places across the country as “Freedom Day” or “Emancipation Day.”
Today, June 19, 2018, we are witnessing alarming changes in the political climate in the country, a growing national indifference to the struggle for civil rights, a resurgence among proponents of White supremacy, and nearly daily, traumatizing reminders of the degree to which we, Black people, are not yet completely free. In light of all these developments, the Truth Campaign and Tour could not be more timely.
The Truth Tour is designed to dramatically increase the number of people of African ancestry who are firmly on the road to emotional emancipation and able to more effectively deal with the challenges before us as a people. Emotional emancipation is about us finally freeing ourselves and our children from the anti-Black narrative grounded in the lies of White superiority and Black inferiority--lies that have burdened us for centuries and are still limiting us today. Emotional emancipation is about complete freedom for Black people.
We will have more information on the Truth Campaign and Tour in the weeks and months ahead. If you would like to sponsor a Truth Tour stop in your city, please contact us at info@communityhealingnet.org (after June 26, as our website is currently being redesigned so we can better serve you.)
Thank you.
The struggle is ending. Victory is certain.
--Enola G. Aird, Founder and President, Community Healing Network
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