Healing town hall, live from studio being new orleans. Now joined now by chris hayes and join all right. Good evening, and welcome to our town hall of the national day of racial healing and event creating, 60 years ago by our sponsor of the w. E. Case kellogg foundation. The specialties held every year on the day after the dr. Martin luther king holiday. If you look around, you will see that we are in this glorious space, incredible room. It is part of a studio b which is a set of former warehouses turn to an Art Experience by the artist brandon be mike odoms, here in the by Water Neighborhood of the great city of new orleans. Our colleague jermaine lee who has been doing some reporting for this project is here with us as well and so is the young fellas the land where we unfortunate to be meeting tonight has made a Gathering Place and trading hub of different backgrounds and cultures going back centuries. And so we want to acknowledge, thank and honor the Indigenous People for hume thi
studio being new orleans. here now is joy reid and chris hayes. [applause] all right. good evening, and welcome to our town hall of the national day of racial healing and event created six years ago by our sponsor, the wk kellogg foundation. this special day is held every year the day at their dr. martin luther king holiday if you look around, you will see that we are in this glorious space, incredible room. it is part of a studio b which is a set of former warehouses turn to an art experience by the artist brandon be mike odoms, here in the by water neighborhood of the great city of new orleans. our colleague trymaine lee who has been doing some reporting for this project is here with us as well and so is the young fellas brass band. fabulous. the land where we unfortunate to be meeting tonight has made a gathering place and trading hub for people of different backgrounds and cultures going back centuries. and so we want to acknowledge, thank and honor
healing town hall, live from studio being new orleans. now joined now by chris hayes and join all right. good evening, and welcome to our town hall of the national day of racial healing and event creating, 60 years ago by our sponsor of the w. e. case kellogg foundation. the specialties held every year on the day after the dr. martin luther king holiday. if you look around, you will see that we are in this glorious space, incredible room. it is part of a studio b which is a set of former warehouses turn to an art experience by the artist brandon be mike odoms, here in the by water neighborhood of the great city of new orleans. our colleague jermaine lee who has been doing some reporting for this project is here with us as well and so is the young fella s the land where we unfortunate to be meeting tonight has made a gathering place and trading hub of different backgrounds and cultures going back centuries. and so we want to acknowledge, thank and honor the i
top line to what that work is, what it looks like. it s all about improving the lives of the most honorable children. but we know that children live within the context of their families. families must support, them communities must be equitable places for families to live and thrive and so our work is all about improving the lives of children and structural racism impairs the ability for children and families to thrive. i am curious, after. i would love for you to explain to me what a healing circle, whether it, is what is it look like. you have conducted them. what does it look like in a healing circle? first we come to recognize the layers that sit within us and they have to consider the reflecting on and then doing. with things that we learned along this? that we learn from our ancestors. we are here because of the sacrifices that they made and how they contributed to our presence today here and one of the things that they left for us was this tradition of gatherin
trymaine, thank you for that. there is a lot of ways to foster healing. the first is that there is always accepting that there is work to do. one way to start that working through a healing circle, a powerful safe space in order to promote healing within a community. it is about getting to know your neighbors, asking questions, maybe even changing your mind. and joining us now is lejune montgomery lebran we also have hector sanchez flores national come padres network. and back with us, former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. people not familiar with the work the foundation is done on racial healing. what is your intro top line to what that work, is what it looks like? it s all about improving the lives of the most vulnerable