This Tuesday, January 19
th, is the fifth annual National Day of Racial Healing. Battle Creek City Commissioner Boonikka Herring was on the WBCK Morning Show with Tim Collins to talk about what’s planned for the local community. Herring, born and raised in Battle Creek, was elected to the City Commission in November. She owns a business called “Cakes by Boo” and teaches cake decorating and baking for KCC at Lifelong Learning, and she is also a Racial Healing Practitioner for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT). “What we do is we facilitate healing circles for people of different races,” said Herring. “We bring people together and try and help them experience some of the struggles that everyone else goes through to try and a commonality. It’s really beautiful because you get people that normally aren’t in the same spaces, and you get them to open up and talk about the things they’ve experienced or the things that hurt them or the things that bother them and it makes a huge difference. We specialize in helping people build relationships and I think that’s the only way we’re going to get our community to come together.”