Rooted in Resilience Tour
Friday, 03/15/2024-03/17/2024, 06:00 pm-
Three locations in Miami, FL
15400 NW 42 Ave,
Miami Gardens, Florida, 33054
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Three-City Rooted in Resilience Tour Coming to Miami 15-17 to Celebrate Collaboration in Medical Research, Community Empowerment, and Spiritual Enlightenment Within the Black Community
The Rooted in Resilience Tour is scheduled to stop in the Miami, Florida area from March 15 – 17, 2024. The three-day event—in collaboration with the National Pan Hellenic Council’s Black Greek Letter Consortium (BGLC), the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program, and multiple community partners across the Miami area—highlights the power of the Black community’s collaboration in medical research, education, community empowerment, and spiritual enlightenment. Activities will celebrate the community’s unwavering commitment to excellence in the face of adversity, inequity, injustice, and racism.
Themes for each day of the event include Collegiate with a Historically Black College & University (Friday), Community (Saturday), and Church (Sunday).
WHERE & WHEN:
DAY ONE: Florida Memorial University is the HBCU education partner for Friday, March 15, 2024. Friday’s event takes place in the FMU Auditorium at 6 PM, located at 15400 NW 42 Ave, Miami Gardens, FL 33054. Collegiate Night will highlight the promise of the upcoming generation that can help change the medical future of the Black community. In a discussion moderated by the Resilient JEM (Jade E. Mathis), medical and community experts will provide an overview of the All of Us Research Program and its benefits, opportunities, challenges, and relevancy to minority medical research and mental health.
DAY TWO: Senior Family Center, 18330 NW 12th Ave., Miami Gardens, FL 33056, will be the location for Community Day on Saturday, March 16, 2024, from 11 AM – 3 PM. This event will include music, nutrition and cooking demonstrations, and other interactive and family fun activities about health care and the Black community. Community Day is supported by the Delta Research and Educational Foundation (DREF), National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. H.O.P.E Health and Wellness Initiative, and the University of Miami Health System.
DAY THREE: On Sunday, March 17, 2024, Reverend Dr. Jimmie L. Bryant will share a spiritual message to mark the close of three days of education and inspiration. The service will take place at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church of Liberty City, 1899 NW 64th St, Miami, FL 33147, at 8:00 AM.
