LYNNFIELD — The Lynnfield For Love Race Amity Day Committee will celebrate Race Amity Day on Sunday, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., on the Common (Main Street at Summer Street) with a scavenger hunt, story walk, read-aloud and more activities.
Soon after organizing in 2017 following the divisive 2016 presidential election, Lynnfield for Love organized a Race Amity day.
The event showcases the 2016 state law encapsulating Race Amity Day legislation crafted in the previous year by the National Center for Race Amity at Wheelock College Boston.
Gov. Charlie Baker signed the law in February 2016 directing the annual issuance of a proclamation setting apart the second Sunday in June as Massachusetts Race Amity Day.
Race Amity Day, according to the law, is intended “to recognize that 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.”
Beginning in 2017, Lynnfield for Love members also held a multicultural fair in partnership with the Lynnfield Cultural Council and created a “Kindness Rocks” garden at MarketStreet.
Dedicated to a mission of spreading love, peace and harmony, the group’s activities have included writing letters of love to veterans, refugees and children in hospitals, and making “kindness rocks” for the Kindness Rock garden.
Lynnfield for Love was an Essex Media Group 2018 Lynnfield Persons of the Year selection.
For information on Amity Race Day activities, contact Lynnfield For Love at
[email protected].
