Virginia YWCAs hosting 21-day ‘Racial Justice Challenge’
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YWCA Richmond has launched its 21-Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge in collaboration with YWCA South Hampton Roads and YWCA Central Virginia. Registration for the challenge is open now on YWCA Richmond’s website, http://www.ywcarichmond.org.
Last July, more than 3,000 people statewide signed up to participate in the first-annual event.
The challenge is designed to foster greater awareness and challenge participants to confront their own understandings and act toward advancing racial equity in Virginia. YWCAs across the nation will be participating by sharing all-new content with their communities.
The event provides an opportunity to dive deep into racial equity and social justice. Participants will be provided with curated articles, podcasts, reflection activities and more delivered through emails that began going out Monday and will continue weekdays through March 29.
In the coming weeks, the YWCA 21-Day Racial Justice Challenge will explore systemic racism as it relates to reparations, sports, gender-based violence and environmental policies.
“I participated in the YWCA Richmond’s Challenge in 2020 and thoroughly enjoyed it and appreciated how much there was for me to learn,” said YWCA Richmond board member Donna Wheeler. “The format was interesting because it had both little and bigger bites of information in easily digestible links to podcasts, videos and books that enabled me to participate at my own pace. There were so many resources that I might never have found on my own that have now informed how I think about racism.”
YWCA’s challenge was inspired by Food Solutions New England, which was the first to adapt an exercise from Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. and Debby Irving’s book into the interactive 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge.
