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"The R Word" – Racial Equity Training

presented by The Zacchaeus Foundation

2025-06-18 18:00:00 2025-06-18 19:30:00 America/Chicago "The R Word" – Racial Equity Training Join Robin Rue Simmons of First Repair, who will lead racial equity training to help people repair harm done to African Americans in Fayetteville (See City Council Resolution 275-24).  Fayetteville Public Library - Walker Community Room

Wednesday, June 18
6:00pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-06-18 18:00:00 2025-06-18 19:30:00 America/Chicago "The R Word" – Racial Equity Training Join Robin Rue Simmons of First Repair, who will lead racial equity training to help people repair harm done to African Americans in Fayetteville (See City Council Resolution 275-24).  Fayetteville Public Library - Walker Community Room

Fayetteville Public Library

Walker Community Room

Join Robin Rue Simmons of First Repair, who will lead racial equity training to help people repair harm done to African Americans in Fayetteville (See City Council Resolution 275-24). 

Robin Rue Simmons is the Founder and Executive Director of FirstRepair, a not-for-profit organization that informs local reparations, nationally. Previously, Rue Simmons was the 5th Ward Alderman for the City of Evanston, IL, when she led, in collaboration with others, the passage of the nation’s first government- funded Black reparations legislation.

Rue Simmons is a 2023 University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, Pritzker Fellow. She has been covered in numerous national and international publications, on television and radio, and in podcasts including The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, The Guardian, ABC’s Nightline, and CNN. Rue Simmons is also featured in The Big Payback, a documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Festival in June 2022 and began airing nationally on PBS on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, January 16, 2023.

AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Author Talks & Lectures |

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