Leading Voice Against Police Brutality Brings Message of Intersectional Justice to Kansas City

Brittany Packnett, who will be the Ware Lecture at General Assembly, unpacks the racist undertones of how popular culture uses the term "riots."

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Leading Voice Against Police Brutality Brings Message of Intersectional Justice to Kansas City

June 18, 2018​

Kansas City, MO – Brittany Packnettknown for her activism in Ferguson, Missouri, following the killing of Michael Brown and for her work on the award-winning podcast, “Pod Save the People,”will speak about intersectional justice to thousands of people attending the Unitarian Universalist Association's annual gathering in Kansas City, MO on Saturday, June 23.

Packnett will be the 2018 Ware Lecturer, a distinguished guest speaker invited to speak at the UUA’s General Assembly. She is the founder of Campaign Zero, which calls for police reform to end killings by police. Packnett is also well-known for her gripping video essays for Mic.

Her address to Unitarian Universalists comes at an especially significant time for the UUA, as that religious community focuses on its explicit commitment to dismantle white supremacy, both within its religious tradition and in the world.

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Marchae Grair

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mgrair@uua.org


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