Resources to Turn to in These Times Undoing Racism
Our 8th Principle
“We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”
A Framework for Reconciliation – Providence 1 hr. recording
On July 15, 2020, Honorable Mayor Jorge O. Elorza signed an Executive Order that identified and created a process of Truth, Reconciliation, and Municipal Reparations to address institutional and systemic bias and racism affecting Black, Indigenous people, and people of color within the City of Providence. Working together, a team of city and state historical institutions has crafted a comprehensive narrative for public education, public interpretation, and future policy-making efforts.
Submitted by Etta Zasloff
Whose land are you on?
Identify whose land you are living on HERE.
A profound conversation with activists Ruby Sales and Brittany Packnett Cunningham, moderated by Rev. Tracy Blackman in the wake of the January 6, 2021 Insurrection on the Capitol.
The reparation conversation has long been part of Black music
NPR: 5 minute listen
A Matter of Truth documents the struggle of African American and Indigenous people’s equal rights in Providence, RI from 1620-2020 by the RI Black Heritage Society and the 1696 Heritage Group and RW University. PDF document.
Submitted by Etta Zasloff
“A vital, urgent, stirring, beautifully written book . . . a compassionate road map out of our present troubled moment.”—George Saunders, New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
2022 Read Across Rhode Island
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap and the Case for Reparations Discussion
From NonProfit Quarterly, Feb. 22, 2021
1 hr. recording
“James Baldwin’s Shadow” from NPR’s Throughline Podcast
The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women
“… a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'”
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
NYTimes Review.
“Drawing from years of monthly twenty-four-hour duty—and immersion journalism—Brooks guides us past two barbed-wire-encircled arguments (‘the police are racist and unnecessary’ and ‘get rid of a few bad apples and all’s fine’) to a radically better way of staying safe. A brilliant, important, timely book and gobble-up read.” —Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Advancing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Cultures Worldwide
Resmaa Menakem is interviewed about his self-discovery book on a body-centered approach to healing racialized trauma.
Undoing Racism Resources from the UUCSC Racial Justice Committee
Submitted by
Jean Bowen, Chair
Native Voices, PBS Series Native America
in partnership with Tomaquag Museum created these three short films
First Peoples Rhode Tour
Submttted by Loren Spears, Director Tomaquag Museum
ELIJAH
Tomaquag Museum
Submitted by Amber Collins.
From Black Lives UU
We — those of us at the Movement for Black Lives Convening, along with other Black UUs — created this document to present to our faith the 7 Principles of Black Lives.
Embrace SURJ!
SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.
“Hey, Mom . . .” Resources and Strategies for recruiting white family as allies for Black liberation.
Submitted by Rev. DL Helfer
Ibram X. Kendi speaks about his book, How to be an Anti-racist.
Submitted by Etta Zasloff
KNOW YOUR CANDIDATES AND ELECTED OFFICIALS T.A.S.K. Forums
In case you missed …
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Recorded Live
Submitted by Etta Zasloff
Taking A Collective Breath: Deepening our alignment with the Movement for Black Lives, a five-session series built around the elements of the BREATHE Act and created in a collaboration between Side With Love and UUSC.
Submitted by Rev. DL Helfer
GA 2020 ACTIONS OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS (AIW)
AIW: Amen to Uprising: A Commitment and Call to Action (Full text from GA 2020)
AIW: Address 400 Years of White Supremacist Colonialism (Full text from GA 2020)
Submitted by Rev. DL Helfer
1-Widening the Circle: Establishing Ongoing Intersectional Accountability Commission and Sunsetting the JTWTC
2-Supporting and Investing In Youth and Young Adults in Unitarian Universalism
3-The Pandemic: A Religious Response
Submitted by Rev. DL Helfer