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WILLIAMSBURG — The sixth annual Heal Williamsburg/Heal the Nation Community Forum will take place from 1-4 p.m. Sunday at the Stryker Center. The event will include lunch, arts and crafts and a community forum led by DeVeria Gore, a Virginia Racial Healing Institute executive board member. The forum will examine the challenges of interracial marriages and raising biracial children. Panelists include Timothy Barko, science department chair at Walsingham Academy; Angelia Kane, Emmy award-winning producer and co-owner of Jolly’s Mill Pond; Prell Gross, certified counselor and co-owner of Peace‘In‘It Counseling; and Eileen O’Brien, a sociology professor at William & Mary. A question and answer period will also take place. The event is organized by Coming to the Table-Historic Triangle, a program of the Virginia Racial Healing Institute, and sponsored by Sentara Health. Attendance is free, but registration is requested here. “We are looking forward to bringing the Greater Williamsburg community together for a day of good food, good music and courageous conversations aimed at relationship and community building,” said Laura Hill, executive director of the Virginia Racial Healing Institute. The institute is also co-sponsoring a food drive to benefit Grove Christian Outreach Center’s pantry and is asking for donations of healthy food items.
