Truth, Racial Healing, and Transforming Systems of Racism

What is it about?

This article stemmed from an acceptance speech for the Global Alliances’ 2022 Presidential Award made by Dr. Gail Christopher and her daughter, Heather McGhee. Heather McGhee is a New York Times best selling author of the book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. The history, transformative impact, and importance of the truth, racial healing and transformation (TRHT) movement in exposing and eradicating the fallacy of a hierarchy of human value is outlined. Dr. Christopher shares insights into the past and provides hope for the future through her Rx Racial Healing model for authentic storytelling and changes in perspective. The article also discusses the momentum of public health jurisdictions declaring racism as a public health crisis and presents a resource, Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice, that has been developed to assist jurisdictions in related work.

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Photo by Chang Duong on Unsplash

Photo by Chang Duong on Unsplash