The National Day of Racial Healing takes place annually on the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The observance grows every year as people across the country work to create connections and share a sense of belonging. The League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson and the YWCA of Southern Arizona are again partnering on an event to celebrate NDRH. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, January 18, 2025. The NDRH planning committee met on June 2 to discuss the event and volunteers are needed for all event activities including Educational Panel Discussion ~ Cultural Performances ~ Essay Contest ~ Food and Hospitality and Youth Activities. Volunteers are also needed to help with Fund Raising and Publicity. Our next committee meeting will be held on Saturday, July 13, 2024, at the League office at 800 N. Swan Rd., Suite 126, at 11 am. If you missed the event last year you can view a video recording on the League website at Members/You Tube Library/click videos and it is the first two videos in the fourth row down. View NDRH 2024

Please join us on July 13 and help make the NDRH event an opportunity to gather children, teens, neighbors, and community members together to develop and grow relationships built on trust and mutual respect. 

• Oct. 3 Shange, Ntozake. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide (1997). 
• Dec. 5 TBD. Four-way tie between (1) Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time (1963; Vintage reissue, 1992); (2) Brown, Adrienne Maree, and Walidah Imarisha, editors. Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements (2015); (3) Greenhouse, Linda. Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court (2021); and (4) Stewart, Katherine. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (2022).