32nd Annual Juneteenth Ally Awards Barbecue Luncheon

Juneteenth Ally Award Barbecue Luncheon: Celebrating 36 Years!

This year we are proud to celebrate the 36th Anniversary of the Center for Healing Racism. This will be the 32nd year that our annual Ally Awards Luncheon fundraiser has commemorated our vision of achieving a better world for our communities. As we celebrate our 36th 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:

Joy Sewing, a Pulitzer-prize nominated columnist for the Houston Chronicle, reporting and opining on issues, including social justice, politics, education, health care and inequity.

Joel Edward Goza, the Simmons College of Kentucky Professor of Ethics and the author of two books: America’s Unholy Ghosts: The Racist Roots of Our Faith and Politics and Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America. Before focusing on writing and teaching, Joel worked in urban redevelopment and community activism for over a decade.

Tony N. Brown, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rice University in Houston, TX. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and completed postdoctoral training at Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. As a critical race theorist, he investigates how racism works, from the womb to the tomb, to disadvantage blacks and privilege whites.