Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua proudly displays the Black Lives Matter banner. Photo: Harry Purkhiser

Working for Awareness:

Recently the UU Nashua Racial Justice (Black Lives Matter) team has been active:

• Honoring two dedicated but ill-treated Black Unitarians in Nashua, Rev. Campbell and Marguerite Campbell
• Displaying a Black Lives Matter banner: see our ceremony
• Responding to emails from occasional passers-by who don’t understand or agree with our banner
• Dozens of participants took a life-changing workshop with G.R.A.C.E.
• Hosted a speaker from BLM Boston who challenged us to change the world
• Church-wide #UUWhiteSupremacyTeachIn, across the service and children’s activities

Resources to Learn More:

• Explore UUCN’s 2017/18/19 monthly discussion topics: great videos, cartoons, and articles.
• Visit the Black Lives Matter website
• Watch a compelling TED Talk by Bryan Stevenson, author of the UUA Common Read “Just Mercy”
• Take this eye-opening online test activity from Harvard, to indicate one’s racial bias
• Read a short explanation of white privilege by Debby Irving, author of “Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race”
• Explore a Unitarian Universalist theology of Black Lives Matter by Kenny Wiley, see also Black Lives of UU
• Resources for faith communities from the group Showing Up for Racial Justice