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With participation in the test returning to normal this spring, the results are among the strongest evidence available of the academic fallout from the pandemic. ....
Credit Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation in Kalamazoo Today at 5 pm, Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Kalamazoo will present the 5th annual National Day of Racial Healing Celebration. It will be livestreamed on Facebook, Youtube, and the Public Media Network pages from the stage of the Kalamazoo State Theatre. Emily Olivares, coordinator for TRHT in Kalamazoo, and Ed Genesis, a TRHT Leadership Team member, activist and performer, spoke with Cara Lieurance about the group s goals and gave a preview of the online celebration. It will feature prominent performer/activists Gabriel Giron, Yolanda Lavender, and the Rootead Youth Dance Company. Listen ....
Kalamazoo Artists Featured in Upcoming Racial Healing Concert In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a crowd gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. He spoke not only to the 250,000 people at the memorial, but to the entire nation, sending a message of hope, strength, and unceasing perseverance. 58 years after sharing his dream, our country still finds itself grappling with inequity. The senseless deaths of so many people of color have opened old wounds. Hard conversations have been had. It is time to heal. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ....
Pilot program launched to connect Black and Brown therapists to clients of color Updated Dec 24, 2020; Facebook Share KALAMAZOO, MI Two Kalamazoo organizations have joined forces to pilot a program that would match people of color seeking mental health treatment with providers whose life experiences more closely match their own. Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Kalamazoo (TRHT) partnered with Rootead Enrichment Center to launch the Black & Brown Therapy Collective with the goal of connecting residents to therapists of color. Destigmatizing mental health for the Black and Brown community is a personal passion for Rootead Executive Director Kama Mitchell. Connecting people of color with each other helps eliminate microaggressions or misunderstandings that can be roadblocks during a therapy session, Michell said. ....