Read the complete text of Michelle Alexander’s commentary for Time Magazine online here…; – Ed. Let it be said hereafter that we were quiet no more. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-blindness The New Jim Crow and Mass Incarceration at the UUAprint-rea… version of the…

Multicultural Ministries 2013 Sharing Project here.uua.orghere.akapitan@uua.org that person’s name and contact information (or the contact information of a third person), and special needs. We’ll make every effort to find alternative ways for this person to participate in the project. We look…

The Root. Standing On the Side of Love. … and George: A Tale of Two Americas from emergent church leader Brian McLaren on theReligion Dispatches blog. New York Times. Chicago Tribune. Black Voices Page of the Huffington Post. National Memo. Resources to take action: NAACPMove On.org. … for…

The Blue Boat of Youth and Young Adult Ministries will publish additional reactions and resources for spiritual reflection and action.–Ed. Sanford Police Department, by Florida state law agencies, and by the Federal Department of Justice. Zimmerman was eventually charged with second-degree murder…

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Bidder 70 – the story of DeChristopher’s civil disobedience disrupting a Bureau of Land Management (BLMmass incarceration is that our prisons are filled with really normal people.” Obviously respectful, Letterman thanks DeChristopher for his activism at the end of the 12-minute interview. Watch…

The following is a statement from The Rev. Peter Morales, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association. -Ed. Unitarian Universalist Association joined two amicus curiae briefs in these cases with other religious organizations in support of marriage equality….

Wikipediahttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/supreme-court-prop-8_n_3434854… Post. Read analysis of what is likely to happen now that the Supreme Court has vacated the Ninth Circuit Court order on SCOTUSBLOG…

DOMA deprives the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment. Defense of Marriage Act, a United States federal law that restricted federal marriage benefits and required inter-state marriage recognition to only opposite-sexmarriagesWikipedia…;. Supreme Court DOMA Decision…

Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/voting-rights-act-supreme-cour…;. “The Supreme Court on Tuesday effe… struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, ruling that Congress had not provided adequate justification for subjecting nine states, mostly…