Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb

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  A Light Across the River

  A moonless night. A rowboat ride, about a mile, across an icy current toward the glow of a lantern on the far side of the river. Someone waiting there will be your next conductor. They'll guide you to a safe house as the Underground Railroad carries you north. ...
• Celebrating Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb

  Usually in February, for Black History Month; or in March, as Reeb was killed on 3/9/65 and Young died on 3/11/71. This service is an...

Signs of Our Faith

• John L. Cashin, Witness for Justice

  One day in Alabama, in 1968, as farmers worked in their fields, a small airplane swooped into view. The farmers looked up wonderingly as...

Virtue Ethics

• Building Respect Reverend Joseph Jordan 1842-1901

  By Janeen K Grohsmeyer

  When Joseph Jordan (pronounced Jerden ) was born in Virginia in 1842, slavery was still legal. Most people of African descent were treated...

A Chorus of Faiths

• The March at Selma

  In February of 1965, the United States was at another turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Act had been passed in 1964, but critical rights were still not legally secured for African Americans. Black men and women routinely faced physical violence, biased "literacy tests,"...
• A Chorus of Faiths, High School Youth: Unitarian Universalists as Interfaith Leaders

  By Hannah McConnaughay, Renee Ruchotzke

  The Chorus of Faiths program helps develop Unitarian Universalist youth as interfaith leaders. Youth explore values of service to our community and religious pluralism through stories from our Sources and personal storytelling, and coordinate an interfaith service.

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  Black History of Unitarian Universalism

  By Susan Lawrence

  In February, Americans say the names and retell the stories of African Americans whose achievements and contributions helped to shape us as a nation. When we investigate our shared past, we learn more about who we are today.

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  Black History Month: A time to unlearn

  By Kenny Wiley

  As a child I learned that we had, mostly, overcome. Clues to a deeper truth hid in plain sight.
  Image credit: AP Photo/Charles Harrity, 1967
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  We are all bound up together

  By Kenny Wiley

  Frances E. W. Harper (1825–1911) challenged us to practice a religion of justice.
  Image credit: courtesy of the House Divided Project at Dickinson College