Activity time: 55 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 5, Affirming Experiences and Marginalizing Experiences Music (two different selections), and music player Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Work with your co-facilitator to select and arrange the material provide...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Journals, one for each participant Pens and pencils Preparation for Activity Before the workshop, ask participants to bring a journal and writing instrument to the workshop. Or, purchase journals for all participants. Write on newsprint, and post:...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, Guidelines That Promote Multicultural Dialogue Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 1 for all participants. Write the word "covenant" on a piece of newsprint, list the following agreements underneath, and post the newsprint: Honor and...

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Leader Resource 4, Program Goals Optional: An object participants can pass from speaker to speaker Preparation for Activity Write on newsprint, and post: Why have you decided to be part of a program that talks about rac...

Activity time: 2 minutes Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED/battery-operated candle Leader Resource 1, Sample Program Publicity Leader Resource 2, Sample Welcome Letter for Participants Leader Resource 3, Poem – Telling Preparation for...

By Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman, author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. There must be always remaining in every life some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathlessly beautiful and—by an inherent prerogative, throwing all the rest of...

By Naomi Shihab Nye, from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (Far Corner Books, Portland, OR, 1995). Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth....

Adapted from Resistance and Transformation: Unitarian Universalist Social Justice History by Rev. Colin Bossen and Rev. Julia Hamilton. Not all change is effected in the same way. There is more than one way to resist racism and systems of privilege, and more than one way to work for the...

"Honey, those girls were being chased for at least half a mile once school got out," Ms. Myra recalled. I shook my head knowingly. We had just walked out of the subway station across the street from Boys and Girls High School and were listening to the owner of Cafe 258, one of our original safe...

The Highlander Research and Education Center is an 80-year-old popular education center in the mountains of East Tennessee, which serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement-building in Appalachia and the South....

From The Shaking of the Foundations by Paul Tillich. Sometimes . . . it is as though a voice were saying: "You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later....

We humans are deeply, fundamentally, inescapably, relational beings. Our spirituality, our experiences of the sacred, revolves around how we relate to ourselves, to each other, to the cosmos. — Rev. Peter Morales, in Bringing Gifts, a publication of the Latino/Latina Unitarian Universalist...

Competency Evidence can listen and behave without imposing their own values and assumptions on others carries an attitude of respect when approaching people of different cultures, which entails engagement in a process of self-reflection and self-critique has the ability to move beyond their own...

By Ellen Zemlin, a White Unitarian Universalist.For me, there's never really been a question about whether my Unitarian Universalism and my commitment to antiracism, anti-oppression, and multiculturalism are related. My introduction to justice work came sitting in a circle on the floor at youth...

Russell was an amateur geologist, paleontologist, and professional teacher. He took his young charges on an overnight field trip. While sitting around the campfire, he brought out a bag, took out five rocks, and held up a round, grapefruit-size rock....

Race-based identity groups, or caucuses, provide a chance for people to talk in a structured format with others from their own ethnic/racial group, an opportunity that is rare, even for those who regularly participate in multicultural dialogues. This kind of within-group talk more often than not...

Adapted from a piece originally published in Weaving the Fabric of Diversity (Boston: UUA, 1996). If I am a White person in America: I can turn on my television or watch a movie and see many images of people of my race in a wide variety of roles, including many positive and heroic ones....

Read the following sentences aloud in pairs, pausing briefly between the two items in each pair, and pausing again after each pair is read. This is my best friend, Mandy. This is my best white friend, Mandy. I love green beans. I love green beans made by that white company Dole Foods....

Excerpted from Meditations of the Heart by Howard Thurman. Copyright (C) 1953, 1981 by Anne Thurman. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts. It is very easy to pretend to understand what one does not understand....

Originally written anonymously by a gay high school student and adapted for this exercise. Mattering My father asked if I am gay I asked, Does it matter? He said, No not really I said, Yes. He said get out of my life. I guess it mattered. My friend asked why I talk about race so much?...