In partnership with The Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation and The LA Conservancy, TRHT-LA is proud to present an Extended Walking Tour commemorating the life and legacy of Biddy Mason.

Day 2: Extended Walking Tour

The L.A. Conservancy, in partnership with Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation-Los Angeles (TRHT-LA), and The Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation is proud to present a Historic Downtown Walking Tour. This walk will explore some of L.A.’s most beloved landmarks, such as the Central Library, the U.S. Bank Tower, and the Bradbury Building. The walk will conclude with an extended visit at The Biddy Mason Memorial Park, where we will view a timeline of Biddy’s triumphant life on the site of her first home, hear from guest speakers, and receive a limited edition commemorative poster.

In partnership with The Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation, TRHT-LA is proud to present a two-day celebration commemorating the life and legacy of Biddy Mason.

Day 1: Wreath Laying Ceremony Description

The Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation and Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation - Los Angeles are proud to present a Wreath Laying Ceremony in honor of Bridget “Biddy” Mason. Despite Biddy Mason’s wealth, prominence, and service at the time of her death, Biddy was buried for nearly 100 years in an unmarked grave at Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights. We will gather at Biddy’s resting place on her birthday to acknowledge and remember her story of resilience that continues to inspire us today. At the wreath-laying ceremony, we will hear from local historians, community leaders and honor Biddy’s life with a birthday cake!

Join us to support the call-to-action for all Americans to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival in America of enslaved Africans. The Music Center, in partnership with Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation – Los Angeles, welcomes the organizers of Four Hundred Years of Inequality: A People’s Observance for a Just Future, a coalition dedicated to dismantling structural inequality and building strong, healthy communities. 

Come and learn how networks, organizations and individuals can observe and publicly acknowledge the past four centuries since 1619 when African slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. 

Join over 1,000 people from all walks of life in the Manzanar Committee’s half-century pilgrimage to Manzanar, the first of the American concentration camps in which more than 120,000 Japanese Americans and their immigrant parents were unjustly incarcerated during World War II.

Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation - Los Angeles (TRHT-LA) presents an interpretive Tongva history walk through Downtown Los Angeles. The walk attempts to re-envision the landscape as Yaangna, the principal ancestral village for Tongva and Gabrieleno communities prior to contact with European settlers and missionaries in the late 1700s. The walk offers a glimpse into indigenous worldviews and will highlight our current relationships with water and nature, public spaces, oral histories, land and ancestry. Places to be visited include the Yaangna Plaque, Placita Olvera, Union Station and other unacknowledged sites. The goal of the walk is to give voice to suppressed histories and inspire new futures for our city and communities.

Please join SCG and Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation - Los Angeles, in partnership with Enterprise Community Partners and Designing the WE, for a private, docent-led tour and panel discussion of Undesign the Redline—a one-of-a-kind interactive exhibit exploring the history of race, class and U.S. housing policy, and how this legacy of inequity and exclusion continues to shape our communities.

Community organizers are at the forefront of building more just and inclusive communities. Balancing ambitious campaign goals with tight timelines, can leave organizers with limited spaces to reflect on their personal and professional relationship with Racism. In this dialogue for community organizers, we will explore our personal and collective experiences with Racism, how those experiences impact our organizing, and areas we can deepen our engagement with Racial Justice in our everyday professional lives.  

In this interactive workshop, we will revisit our relationships with plants, plant medicine, and ancestral healing practices. We will be making herbal medicine together to support us with stress and anxiety. The goal is for us to have a space to learn from the plants and notice what messages they have for us about how to move forward and deepen the connection we have with them, each other, and our communities. Click below to learn more and RSVP.

In recognition of the vast and infinite power of music, we are excited to present a free evening concert for the 2019 National Day of Racial Healing featuring an intimate performance by Los Angeles’ very own,  Georgia Anne Muldrow, live at The World Stage. Click below to learn more and RSVP.

The Racial Equity and Healing Justice (REHJ) training was established by TRHT-LA as a four-month program to prepare community members to facilitate challenging yet necessary conversations on race and racism in Southern California. You are invited to gather with fellow community members at REHJ’s first local dialogues in the greater Los Angeles area. The dialogues are free to attend and are presented in partnership with California Conference for Equality and Justice (CCEJ).

The Racial Equity and Healing Justice (REHJ) training was established by TRHT-LA as a four-month program to prepare community members to facilitate challenging yet necessary conversations on race and racism in Southern California. You are invited to gather with fellow community members at REHJ’s first local dialogues in the greater Los Angeles area. The dialogues are free to attend and are presented in partnership with California Conference for Equality and Justice (CCEJ).

In this introductory workshop participants will learn the basic movements of Capoeira and the rich history of this enduring and dynamic practice. Click below to learn more and RSVP.

The Racial Equity and Healing Justice (REHJ) training was established by TRHT-LA as a four-month program to prepare community members to facilitate challenging yet necessary conversations on race and racism in Southern California. You are invited to gather with fellow community members at REHJ’s first local dialogues in the greater Los Angeles area. The dialogues are free to attend and are presented in partnership with California Conference for Equality and Justice (CCEJ).

This interactive process will lead the participants through historical and contemporary events that expose the systemic policies of the United States federal government that promoted and continues to promote the extermination of Native peoples and Native nations, and how Native peoples persisted and survived. Click below for more information and RSVP.

Join the Chinese American Museum and community leaders to commemorate all the lives lost on October 24, 1871, when seventeen Chinese men including a 15-year-old were killed by a mob in Los Angeles’ historic Chinatown. Following the program, the museum will be open to view the exhibitions from 8-9 pm.

TRHT-LA is excited to partner with UNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT (UAII) on a guided tour of never before exhibited vernacular photography, including Polaroids and snapshots, that weave together the lives and critical events of UAII’s earliest beginnings on Winston Street near Skid Row.