National Day of Racial Healing 2026

National Day of Racial Healing January 20, 2026 The City of Boulder is committed to racial equity and acknowledges that we must all work earnestly to create courageous and supportive environments that address the traumatic past; promote healing of wounds created by racial, ethnic, and religious bias; and build an equitable and just society where all people can thrive. As city leaders, it is our duty to protect the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive in nurturing environments that do not violate community members’ safety, dignity, or humanity. Racism and race-based stress are unjust burdens that present physical and psychological barriers to the health and success of people of color. Racial healing is a vital and crucial commitment to self and community education as well as the social, physical, and mental wellbeing of all community members. If we all dedicate ourselves to the principles of truth, racial healing, relationship building, solidarity, and transformative action, we can all bring about the necessary changes in thinking and behavior that will propel our community and the nation forward as a unified force where racial biases can be recognized and unlearned. We, the City Council of the City of Boulder, Colorado, join the nation in declaring January 20, 2026, as

National Day of Racial Healing And urge all members of the community to promote truth, racial healing, and transformation and to work together to raise our collective consciousness around the need to reconcile the inequities caused by historical and current systems of oppression.

_____________________________ Aaron Brockett, Mayor