racial equity

This project will implement comprehensive strategies to promote healing from internalized racism, and create permanent records to increase Fort Wayne’s community-wide knowledge and awareness of the history and impact of structural racism, personal stories and major accomplishments of African Americans locally, regionally, and nationally.

In order to accomplish these goals, specific program components will include: the development and administration of the Unlearning Internalizing Racism (ULR) curriculum including educational lectures, facilitated dialogues, and action planning for adults and high school students; the development of traveling exhibits, workshops, and presentations that will involve educational lectures, story telling, oral narratives, role plays, and participant engagement to portray Fort Wayne’s history of racial oppression and discrimination and chronicling of local, regional, and national A/A major accomplishments and contributions; and workshops on genealogy and family history research to assist youth and adults in finding and learning about their ancestral roots.