The National Center for Race Amity works to advance cross-racial and cross-cultural friendship as the key tool as well as the end goal in achieving access, equity, social justice and unity in our nation.
In pursuit of this mission, NCRA will convene a National Day of Healing Virtual Summit on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, one week after our national elections.
The National Day of Healing Virtual Summit is a call for unity and reconciliation, for renewed hope and inspiration. Respected civic, political, business and religious leaders— representing the diverse spectrum of America—will remind us of our heritage and core values and help us move Toward E Pluribus Unum.
A major call to action during the Summit will be the call for a joint resolution in Congress to establish Race Amity Day as a national day of racial amity and reconciliation annually on the second Sunday in June.
Additionally, the National Day of Healing Summit will offer concrete tools resources to promote unity and reconciliation in personal and professional settings.
Please join our generous sponsors and donors to help make the Virtual Summit possible.
The following individuals have been invited to offer brief remarks during the Virtual National Healing Summit:
Charlie Baker
NCAA President and former Governor of Massachusetts
Ken Burns
Historian and Documentary Film Maker
George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States
John Calipari
University of Kentucky Basketball Coach
Paul Chavez
President of the Cesar Chavez Foundation
Liz Cheney
Ben Cohen
Co-Founder, Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream
Xernona Clayton
Founder, Trumpet Awards
Janet Langhart Cohen
Journalist, Playwright and Activist, Co-Founder, Race & Reconciliation in America
William E. Cohen, J.D.
Co-Founder, Race & Reconcilation in America and Former US Secretary of Defense
Johnnetta Betsch Cole, PhD
CEO/President Emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich
Archbishop of Chicago
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
Episcopal Diocese of Washington
Cathy Englebert
WNBA Commissioner
Gloria Estefan
Singer and actress
Shawn Fain
President, UAW
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO and National Director, Anti-Defamation League
Jerry Greenfield
Co-Founder, Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream
George Halvorson
Chairman and CEO (Retired), Kaiser Permanente
Robert C. Henderson
Fortune 500 management and diversity consultant
Dolores Huerta
Co-Founder, United Farm Workers
Debby Irving
Best-selling author and social activist
Derrick Johnson
NAACP President and CEO
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Historian and biographer
Rev. Bernice King
CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center For Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center)
Martin Luther King III
Former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Wendell J. Knox
President and CEO, Abt Associates (Retired)
Mitch Landreau
Founder, E Pluribus Unum Fund and Former Mayor of New Orleans
Ed Markey
Cindy McCain
Executive Director, World Food Programme
Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D.
Educator and Anti-Racist Advocate
Doug Mitchell
Founder, Next Generation Radio
Marc Morial
President and CEO, National Urban League
Mitch McConnell
United States Senator
Dorothy Nelson, J.D.
Judge, 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals
Ernest Nieto
President and Founder, National Hispanic Institute
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
Sean M. O’Brien
General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Edward James Olmos
Actor
Cindy Parlow Cone
President, US Soccer Federation
Dolly Parton
Humanitarian and Entertainer
Colette Phillips
Founder, Get Konnected
Robert Rivers
President, Eastern Bank
Mitt Romney
Howard Ross
Author and Activist
Carlos Santana
Guitarist
Chuck Schumer
United States Senator
Rev. Al Sharpton
Social justice activist and Baptist minister
Cherry Steinwender
Co-Founder, Institutes for the Healing of Racism
Meryl Streep
Actor
Rev, Nancy Taylor, Ph.D.
Retired Senior Minister, Old South Church, Boston
Denzel Washington
Actor
Cornel West, J.D.
Philosopher and Civil Rights Activist
Timothy Wise
Anti-Racist Educator and Author
Kevin Young
Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture
Thank You to our Sponsors
The National Day of Healing Virtual Summit is made possible through the support of these generous donors.
