The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) and NBCUniversal News Group are partnering to promote the dialogue around racial equity issues and help to advance racial healing. 

The yearlong editorial collaboration will introduce racial healing to a broader audience, illustrate how racial healing is already yielding transformative results across the U.S. and inspire everyday people to work towards racial healing and racial equity in their community. 

Throughout the year, the News Group will engage the nation’s leading voices through coverage to promote racial healing, develop yearlong digital content and produce an English and Spanish-language town hall on the National Day of Racial Healing on January 17, 2023.

“Racial healing is a process that restores individuals and communities to wholeness, repairs the damage caused by racism and transforms societal structures into ones that affirm the value of all people,” La June Montgomery Tabron, president and CEO of WKKF said. “We must reckon with the unignorable and longstanding realities of racial injustice, forged over generations. The collective outcry to change a long-broken status quo, the ongoing racialized violence across the country and the continued disproportionate struggle with the impact of the COVID crisis – highlight the need for racial healing and renewing our commitment to racial equity, together.”

According to a press release, this month NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC and Noticias Telemundo journalists will explore and report on the subject of racial equity through the lens of racial healing. This will include profiles and investigations through an ongoing 14-part digital series on NBCNews.com.

The digital series will explore central themes of racial healing, including the progress individuals and communities make to recognize racism in our history, acknowledge everyday biases and repair our society by building inclusive relationships and transforming systems and structures.     

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