The Commission for Unity and Racial Equality (CURE) will host three community events in conjunction with Bermuda visit of the Freedom Schooner.

The first of a series of ?Conversation on Race? forums aimed at increasing race awareness and promoting leadership and action on addressing racial inequality will take place today with a power breakfast for community leaders at La Coquille restaurant.

?A Vision for Conversations on Race Equality?, takes place from 8.30 a.m. to 9.45 a.m.

Another breakfast session scheduled for tomorrow has been cancelled.

Saturday?s forum, ?Continuing the Conversations on Race Equality, Awareness and Empowerment? is geared towards the Island?s youth and is being co-ordinated by Gina Spence Farmer Productions in Christ. Middle and senior school students who participated in CURE?s awareness forums and creativity contest have been invited to attend.

That forum takes place from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Carriage House, St. Georges and ties into the Opening Ceremonies for port visit in St. George?s.

A third forum for all members of the community takes place on May 27 featuring a screening of CURE?s short film production, ?The Conversation Project, Bermuda?.

Producers Walton Brown and Tim Darrel will speak at 5.30 p.m. with the presentations and film at the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, followed by a discussion on board . was the vessel that was used to transport 53 Africans who were kidnapped from West Africa and sold into the transatlantic slave trade in 1839. The Freedom Schooner, a re-creation of the schooner that sailed in 1839, visits ports as an educational sailing vessel and living museum to symbolise and pay tribute to the struggles by Africans and African Americans for equality and human rights.