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Mar 01, 2023 Towards Peace & Justice: Bringing Healing to Utah Through Reckoning with its History of Racial Terrorism

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This panel event features contemporary leading thinkers, civil rights activists, community organizers, and Utah’s Black history organization who on June 11, 2022 provided the opportunity for all Utahns to come together in broader awareness and understanding of injustice, violence, and racism present in Utah’s past. Come learn about their experiences organizing a soil memorial ceremony in Salt Lake City, hear what the soil ceremony represented, and the type of history that necessitated the healing.

Towards Peace & Justice: Bringing Healing to Utah Through Reckoning with
its History of Racial Terrorism
March 14th, 2023
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library
Broadcasted live

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Panelists:
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Robert Burch

Executive Director, Sema Hadithi African American Heritage
& Culture Foundation

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James Tabery

Professor of Philosophy, U of U

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Jamie McGriff

Journalist, KUTV News

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J.R. Hardman

Associate Producer, PBS Utah

Moderator:
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Alice Burch

Board Member, Utah State History Records Advisory Board

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