In this column, UUA Director of Organizing Strategy Nicole Pressley breaks down why and how UUs are pressuring the telecommunications giant.

A “comprehensive…fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject

Available for pre-orderFrom the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P.

Nikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection—a landmark of American literature which speaks to the fury and upheaval of our time, as well as the triumphs and delights of her remarkable creative life.For decades, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has been at the forefront of American culture. The New...

How neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion—and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarityAbleism is embedded in our daily lives. Social life, education, work, and, especially, mental health have been organized around rigid ideas of the “ideal” and the “normal”...

Against our terribly ambivalent present—in which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem at once more possible than ever and, also, relentlessly under attack—An Optimism gives us poems in search of ways to survive—and even thrive.Anchored by an epistolary sequence directed to...

A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge...

We are resistance. / Somos la resistencia.

Available for pre-orderAdapted from Clint Smith’s How the Word Is Passed, this must-read narrative takes readers to historical sites across America, exploring the legacy of slavery to help readers make sense of our nation’s past and present, and be better stewards of their own future.Beginning...

Available for pre-orderIn a time of rising authoritarianism and attacks on personal freedoms, the New York Times bestselling author of I’m Still Here chronicles her efforts to live as her full self in a society that wants women—and Black women in particular—to do anything but that.As an

The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and controlIn 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to “ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Destroying harvests is...

“It is an act of faith to imagine a world where oppression is either gone, or where—as is the case of Star Wars—oppression is challenged and ultimately defeated.”

Available for pre-orderThe life and 1984 murder of a beloved Black grandmother that changed community activism forever—and sparked the ongoing movement against racist policing and brutality.#SayHerName: The story of Eleanor Bumpurs, told for the first time by decorated historian and Bumpurs’s...

In a Q&A, Rev. Shige Sakurai, UUA Special Assistant for Equity, Belonging, and Change, shares how UUs are engaging in cultural transformation.

Available for pre-orderSpotlights the tireless work of Black teachers in a historic New Orleans public school, one of countless public schools now part of a school closing crisis in cities nationwideTime and again, teachers of color have been blamed for every conceivable wrong in urban schools, a...

A provocative new history of the forgeries, bogus science, rigged data, and fake news that keep American racism alive.Fake news, outright political lies, a shamelessly partisan press, and the collapse of truth, civility, and shared facts, Philip Kadish argues, are nothing new....

Discover author Deepa Iyer’s heartfelt guide to building a better world, and learn how you can join the conversation.

Check out this curation of resources supporting diversity, equity, and belonging tailored for use by UU religious professionals and congregational board leaders.

Learn how your UU congregation can invest your endowment in positive social justice impact to live into our values, and ways justice organizers and UU spiritual cultivators can get funding/support.

Discover and join some of the affinity communities of UU’s who are youth, emerging adults, BIPOC, and/or trans/nonbinary. Or, join programs and groups about LGBTQ+ welcome and disability access in your congregation/context.