Join us for the Fifth Annual 2025 Race Amity Day Celebration: Weston Celebrates with Boston’s City Strings!
Faith-based and civic groups from Weston, Wayland, Lincoln and neighboring communities gather annually on the second Sunday in June (officially marked as Race Amity Day in MA) to celebrate how people from various cultures and ethnicities share talents of a diverse community.
Join us for this exciting event celebrating RACE AMITY DAY on Sunday, June 8th, at 4pm – 5:30pm featuring special performances and speakers!
This year, we will highlight performances by City Strings United (CSU), an inner-city Arts Community that provides musical opportunities for Boston’s youth. We welcome speakers Rhea Gibson, CSU Programs Director, and Bithyah Israel, CSU Founder, and students who will play chamber music and share their stories.
Don’t miss this! Pre-registration is encouraged HERE.
Weston Community Center is located at 20 Alphabet Lane, Weston.
Sponsored by the Weston Social Justice Group and the Weston Public Library.
What is Race Amity Day?
Race Amity Day is observed annually on the second Sunday of June. It started in 1957 in the United States by the Bahá’í National Spiritual Assembly. The purpose was to combat racism by focusing attention on racial prejudice. Racism is the belief that humans are divided into exclusive entities called ‘races,’ that there is a link between personality and physical traits, and also that some races are superior to others. The Bahá’í understood that racism is a hindrance to peace so they started this day to promote racial harmony and understanding.
Through the efforts of the National Center for Race Amity (www.raceamity.org), Massachusetts’ Governor Charlie Baker signed into law H 2745, Chapter 163, Acts of 2015 of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, establishing the Second Sunday in June annually as Race Amity Day. In part, the Race Amity Day canon states:
“The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart the second Sunday in June as Massachusetts Race Amity Day to recognize that the people of the Commonwealth is comprised of multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial citizens, and to encourage friendship, collegiality, civility, respect and kindness as the commonly shared ideals of the collective citizenry of the commonwealth by joining with communities across the United States to reflect on the beauty and richness of the diverse peoples of this great nation while reaching out with a spirit of amity toward one another annually and recommending that the day be observed in an appropriate manner by the people.”
Learn more about Racity Amity Day Here.
