Healing Work Before Systems Change

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the legacy of the cereal manufacturer, had been investing in communities of Colour, and specifically aimed to reduce racial disparities in the institutions that were impacting those communities, but as the century turned, conversations at Kellogg got a lot more explicit about the root problem that they were addressing: the long legacy of colonialism, and surfaced the belief that to change present and future systems, it was fundamental to name and tell the truth about the harms that racism has caused.