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Spirit and Breath, create an openness that violence has constricted.Reflection | By Melissa Jeter | October 4, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Anger, Body, Earth, Healing, Race/Ethnicity, Self-Care, Self-Respect, WorshipPage/Article -
WHEREAS, consistent with Unitarian Universalism’s living tradition, our 6th principle on a peaceful and just world, our 7th principle concerning the interdependent web of existence, and our proposed 8th principle on accountably dismantling racism, we affirm that the proliferation of policing at...2023 | Social Witness StatementsTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Climate & Environmental Justice, Racial JusticePage/Article
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I cannot assume anything when you welcome me into your spaces with suspicion and fear.Poetry | By Kristen L. Harper | March 15, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackLivesMatter, Anti-Oppression, Justice, Oppression, Race/Ethnicity, WorshipWeb, WorshipWorship element
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The UUA responds to the most recent onslaught of oppressive laws and policies threatening the lives of trans and nonbinary+ children and the LGBTQIA+ community and continues to work for justice and the ability of all people to thrive.March 6, 2023 | From Press ReleasesTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, #LGBTQ, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Solidarity, Worth, Anti-Racism, LGBTQ Welcome & EqualityPage/Article -
May we be our descendants’ bravest heroes, keepers of the flame.Blessing | By Vanessa Titang | February 28, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Grace, Healing, Identity, WorshipWeb, WorshipWorship element
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A statement from UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray in response to the devastating death of Tyre Nichols, a 29 year old Black man beaten to death by police in Memphis, TN.By Susan Frederick-Gray | January 31, 2023 | From Press ReleasesTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Anti-Racism, Social JusticePage/Article -
Let us be grateful for the vital force that wakes us and moves us.Reflection | By Melissa Jeter | January 25, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, America, Body, Generations, Love, Race/Ethnicity, WorshipPage/Article -
Books and discussion guides for Unitarian Universalist congregations and individuals seeking anti-racist, multicultural change.November 16, 2022Tagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackHistoryMonth, #BlackLivesMatter, Anti-Racism, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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The Living Legacy Project’s mission is to provide experiential education about the American Civil Rights Movement that challenges, inspires, and equips people from diverse backgrounds and identities for justice work in their communities and beyond in...Immersion Experience | November 16, 2022Tagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackHistoryMonth, #BlackLivesMatter, UU History, Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Anti-Racism, BIPOC Experiences, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, History, MulticulturalismPage/Article -
I rise on the shoulders of ancestors whose names I can not know.Reflection | By Glen Thomas Rideout | September 14, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackHistoryMonth, #BlackLivesMatter, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), America, Anti-Oppression, Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb, Direct Experience, Family, Generations, History, Oppression, Race/Ethnicity, Secular, Self-Respect, Unitarian Universalism, WorshipPage/Article -
Pleasure is one of the ways we know when we are free.Reading | By Adrienne Maree Brown | August 5, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Body, Direct Experience, Humanism, Joy, Secular, Self-Care, Sexuality, WorshipWeb, WorshipWorship element -
Tools your UU congregation can use to dismantle white supremacy culture and create anti-racist, multicultural transformation.July 28, 2022Tagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, #WidenTheCircle, Anti-Racism, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, MulticulturalismPage/Article
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Discomfort /in the name of holy wholeness / Bring all of ourselves / in the name of holy, of wholenessPoetry | By Kiakiali Bordner | May 23, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Activism, Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Justice, Leadership, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Purpose, Race/Ethnicity, Solidarity, WorshipWeb, WorshipWorship element -
In response to the tragic shooting in Buffalo, NY, the UUA reaffirms its commitment to anti-racism and calls on the United States to confront its racist history and dismantle white supremacy.May 18, 2022 | From Press ReleasesTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Anti-Racism, Racial JusticePage/Article
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There’s never been a time in the United States history when black rebellions did not spark existential fear among white people.Reading | By Michelle Alexander, Leslie Alexander | May 12, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), America, Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb, Freedom, History, Juneteenth, Race/Ethnicity, Secular, WorshipWeb, WorshipWorship element
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Slavery is made to sound as if it happened in a prehistoric age instead of only a few generations ago.Reading | By Clint Smith | January 27, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, America, History, Oppression, Race/Ethnicity, ViolenceWorship element
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White supremacy illuminates the exceptional instead of blaming the system.Reading | By Clint Smith | January 27, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, America, Anti-Oppression, Generations, History, Race/Ethnicity, Violence, WorshipWeb, WorshipWorship element
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In order to be welcoming, the systems of power and privilege in our spaces need to be actively dismantled.Reflection | By Shannon Lang | September 29, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackLivesMatter, Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Diversity, Equity, Hospitality, Humanism, Race/Ethnicity, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, WorshipPage/Article
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When we learn to dismantle the markers and habits of white supremacy in our worship life, we get free together.Leader Resource | By Erika Hewitt, Julica Hermann de la Fuente | July 30, 2021 | From WorshipLabTagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackLivesMatter, Anti-Oppression, Equity, Justice, Worship TipsPage/Article -
To see how we fight still after entire lifetimes of struggle—and then to tell us to be more polite is just plain cruel.Reading | By Ijeoma Oluo | June 30, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackLivesMatter, Anti-Oppression, Humanism, Race/Ethnicity, Secular, WorshipWeb, WorshipWorship element