On Tuesday, communities across the state and the U.S. will come together for events and programming for the fourth annual National Day of Racial Healing (NDORH).

The annual day of recognition is part of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s (WKKF) Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) effort, a national, community-based process of transformative, sustainable change, addressing the historic and contemporary effects of racism.

The NDORH website shares: “Racial healing is not only important, it is essential. Because healing is at the heart of racial equity.”

Michigan is home to four of the 14