The 4th Amendment vs Mass-Incarceration Huffington Post. Other Ways to Resist the Policy of Mass-Incarceration – The New Jim Crow & Mass Incarceration on UUA.org https://www.facebook.com/groups/uusresistingnewjimcrow/?hc_location=str… Resisting New Jim Crow & Mass Incarceration Facebook Group...

His name was John. He was a Nigerian immigrant about my parents’ age. I was a suburban 18-year-old, living in Boston with college friends the summer after my freshman year. John and I rode the MBTA together after our shifts as dishwashers in a fancy Harvard Square restaurant. I don’t know how...

We re-post an excerpt of this story by Christine from her blog At the Super Bowl, some of us were having conversations about what constitutes becoming “middle age”. It was mostly folks from my church’s Young Adult group in attendance. My husband and I were on the young end of the age...

We re-post a hypertext annotated edition of an opinion by Rachel Held Evans from her blog at Belief Blog on cnn.com Opinion by Rachel Held Evans At 32, I barely qualify as a millennial. I wrote my first essay with a pen and paper, but by the time I graduated from college, I owned a cell phone and...

Unitarian Universalists are connecting with community partners to resist the ‘New Jim Crow’. Here is another way to join the resistance: Watch the video (and share it with your congregation) of the GA 2013 Workshop: Building the Movement to End the New Jim Crow with Rev. Eric Meter, Rev. Marlin...

What I’m telling my daughter, an African-American teenager, about Trayvon Martin’s death.

Climate Action Teams (CATs) adopt strategies and tactics appropriate for their community. To organize these strategies and tactics, CATs are encouraged to utilize the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office (UU-UNO) “http://www.uua.org/sites/live-new.uua.org/files/cat_strategic_plan_form…...

We re-post an excerpt of this reflection by Sarah Caine from Le Flame.– Ed. here.

We re-post this article from Tufts Now. –Ed. Tapping into Tufts' Spiritual Heritage Rev. Gregory McGonigle, a Unitarian minister with a focus on "lived religion," begins July 1 as the new university chaplain “When I think about Tufts’ Universalist heritage, I think about Tufts’ commitments...

Perhaps But Only One Step Forward Catholic Culture commented the Pope's statements, "were widely interpreted by reporters as an acceptance of homosexuals in the Catholic priesthood. But in fact the Pope’s comments were addressed to different questions. According to Catholic Culture the Pope, "...

We re-post an excerpt of this article by Jonathan Merritt in the Atlantic Monthly on the growth of progressive religious identity and with its evolving political ramifications.– Ed. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/will-the-religious-… the Religious Left Become the New 'Moral...

This story about the Youth Group at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Flint (Michigan) by Chris Aldridge (caldridg@mlive.c…; comes to us from the MLive newsite. – Ed. Youth Group Aims to Change World, 2-Bucks at a Time FLINT, MI – Armed with a meager $2 each, junior and senior high...

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...

As an expression of our faith and values, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) takes positions on relevant issues of social justice. Our positions are discerned via the social witness process, as shepherded by the Commission on Social Witness....

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...

Huffington Post) President Obama: ‘‘It’s important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away,’’ he said. Noting that distrust shadows African-American men, that they sometimes are closely...