31st Annual Juneteenth Ally Award Luncheon

                                              Juneteenth Ally Award Luncheon: Celebrating 35 Years!

This year we are proud to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the Center for Healing Racism. Our annual Ally Awards Luncheon fundraiser is the catalyst for realizing our vision of achieving a better world for our communities.  As we celebrate our 35th Anniversary, we are honored to recognize individuals and organizations that have improved our communities by their actions to heal racism.  This year’s Ally Awards recipients include:

Mr. Benny Agosto, Jr., Attorney, whose generous donation will help build the Diversity Center at South Texas Law School, and who has contributed to rewriting laws of police responses in our community.

The American Indian Genocide Museum, an exhibit of documentation of events and policies to memorialize the victims of ethnic cleansing.

Nikkei Progressives, a Japanese American organization that is working to help African Americans receive reparations, as Japanese Americans received after they had been released from their unjust internment following WWII.

Chris Tomlinson, who, after his many years of journalism reporting on the experiences of South Africa, Rwanda, and other sites of racism and genocide, researched his own family heritage, learned that his family were holders of enslaved people on a Texas plantation, and wrote about it in his book Tomlinson Hill.