Organizations

Founded in 2006, Coming to the Table (www.comingtothetable.org/) aims to promote racial healing through leadership, resources and support services. The organization envisions a United States society that acknowledges and seeks to heal from past and present racial wounds caused by slavery.

Coming to the Table adopts four methodologies to achieve this end:

• Uncovering History: researching, acknowledging, and sharing personal, family and community histories of race with openness and honesty 
• Making Connections: connecting to others within and across racial lines in order to develop and deepen relationships 
• Working Toward Healing: exploring how we can heal together through dialogue, reunion, ritual, ceremony, the arts, apology and other methods 
• Taking Action: actively seeking to heal the wounds of racial inequality and injustice and to support racial reconciliation between individuals, within families, and in communities.