This is an MSNBC special presentation.

Sponsored by the WK Kellogg Foundation.

The National Day of Racial Healing Town Hall.

Live from Studio B in New Orleans.

Your now is Julie Wink and Chris Hayes.

All right.

Good evening and welcome to our Town Hall on the National Day of Racial Healing

and event created six years ago.

By our sponsor, the WK Kellogg Foundation, this special day is held every year on the

day after the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

If you look around, you'll see that we're in this glorious space, incredible room.

It's part of the Studio B which is a set of former warehouses turned into an art experience

by the artist Brandon B. Mike Odoms here in the by-water neighborhood of the great city

of New Orleans.

Our colleague, Tremaine Lee, who has been doing some reporting for this project, is here

with us as well.

And so is the Youngfellas brass band.

Now the land where we are fortunate to be meeting tonight has been a gathering place

and trading hub for people of different backgrounds and cultures going back centuries.

And so we want to acknowledge, thank and honor the indigenous peoples for whom this part

of the world has long been home.

Like Vichita Macha, the Chokta.

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