TOWARDS PEACE & JUSTICE: BRINGING HEALING TO UTAH THRU RECKONING W/HISTORY

295 1500 East,Salt Lake City UT 84112

14 March, 2023

Description

This panel event features contemporary leading thinkers, civil rights activists, community organizers, and Utah’s Black History organization who on June 11, 2022 provided the opportunity for all Utahns to come together in broader awareness and understanding of injustice, violence, and racism present in Utah’s past. Come learn about their experiences organizing a Soil Memorial Ceremony in Salt Lake City, hear what the soil ceremony represented, and the type of history that necessitated the healing. Panelists are: Robert BurchExecutive Director, Sema Hadithi African American Heritage& Culture Foundation J.R. HardmanAssociate Producer, PBS Utah James TaberyProfessor of Philosophy, U of U Jamie McGriffJournalist, KUTV News Moderator:Alice Faulkner BurchBoard Member, Utah State History Records Advisory Board This event will take place in-person as well as being broadcast live at this link through the J. Willard Marriott Library of the University of Utah: https://blog.lib.utah.edu/towards-peace-justice-bringing-healing-to-utah-through-reckoning-with-its-history-of-racial-terrorism/?fbclid=IwAR29E5FRx7eT9IUhEbSSe7jStqgvs-0Q4LP7OF6PfQgWu81QZrtYcUGECg4