President Joe Biden will host a summit next month aimed at combatting hate-fueled violence, the White House announced Friday.

The United We Stand Summit will be held Sept. 15 at the White House. It will highlight the Biden administration’s response to violent hate crimes, including mass shootings, and “put forward a shared vision for a more united America,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

Biden will deliver the keynote address at the summit, which will also include federal, state and local officials, civil rights groups, faith and community leaders, technology and business leaders, law enforcement officials, former members of violent hate groups who now work to prevent violence, gun violence prevention leaders, media representatives and cultural figures. The White House did not release any names of people who will attend.

Jean-Pierre noted that Biden became motivated to run for president by the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

Since then, there have been more racially or ethnically motivated mass shootings, including in May in Buffalo, New York, when a white gunman killed 10 Black people in a supermarket. Other shootings in recent years include the October 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh that left 11 people dead and the August 2019 Walmart shooting in El Paso, Texas, in which police said the gunman, who killed 22 people, confessed to targeting Mexicans.

Law enforcement agencies in 2020 received the most reports of hate crime incidents in 12 years, according to an FBI report last year. And FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress last year that that “racially motivated violent extremism, specifically of the sort that advocates for the superiority of the white race, is a persistent, evolving threat.”

“Even as our nation has endured a disturbing series of hate-fueled attacks, from Oak Creek to Pittsburgh, from El Paso to Poway, from Atlanta to Buffalo, Americans remain overwhelmingly united in their opposition to such violence,” Jean-Pierre said. “The United We Stand Summit will bring together heroes from across America who are leading historic work in their communities to build bridges and address hate and division, including survivors of hate-fueled violence.”

Jean-Pierre touted Biden’s work on fighting hate-fueled violence, including signing the bipartisan COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in response to a wave of attacks on Asian Americans, releasing a strategy for countering domestic terrorism and signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act aimed at reducing gun violence. 

“As President Biden said in Buffalo after the horrific mass shooting earlier this year, in the battle for the soul of our nation ‘we must all enlist in this great cause of America,’” Jean-Pierre said. “The United We Stand Summit will present an important opportunity for Americans of all races, religions, regions, political affiliations, and walks of life to take up that cause together.”