Every person has value as a member of the human family. The suffering caused by racism must be ended if we want to create fair and loving communities. We work to end racial discrimination and injustice, starting within ourselves and moving out into the world around us. We support multiracial, multiethnic congregations and advocate for stopping racist policies like mass imprisonment and attacks on voting rights. Our multicultural ministries will continue until there is peace, liberty, and justice for all.?

We invite UUs of all ages and backgrounds to share their hopes and dreams for the?role that Unitarian Universalists can play in advancing racial justice in the United?States. Many UUs are already working with groups and campaigns, and others are?still figuring out how they want to be involved.?

In March 2015, the Living Legacy Project and the Unitarian Universalist Association, presented the Marching in the Arc of Justice Conference, to honor the 50th anniversary of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign. This was a time for us to remember our past, honor our martyrs and their families, and recommit to the struggle for racial justice in the United States. A new Marching in the Arc of Justice Toolkit has just been released for use in your congregation or community group that includes videos from the conference, discussion guides, and small group ministry sessions.?

What We Are Doing

• Mosaic Makers
  Mosaic Makers are leaders who are intentionally building multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural Unitarian Universalist congregations. The Mosaic Makers community comes together to grow, learn, and celebrate.
• Doctrine of Discovery
  We support the struggles of Native peoples for freedom. In 2012, the UUA took a stance against the past and current impacts of the Doctrine of Discovery, an historic international law that allowed Europeans to kill non-Christian peoples and steal their land.?
• Organizing for Racial Justice
  We support congregations and advocate for stopping racist policies such as mass incarceration and attacks on voting rights. We provide opportunities to partner with national campaigns for racial justice grassroots organizations.
• Love Resists
  A joint UUA-UUSC campaign activating people of faith and conscience to resist harm inflicted by criminalization? and create safe, welcoming, sustainable and just communities.

Worship, Learn, Connect, and Live Your Faith

Worship

• Decentering Whiteness in Worship
• Black Lives Matter worship collection
• Selma Sunday worship resources

Education

• Introduction to multiculturalism
• Entry points and UU programs for engaging in multicultural ministry
• Multicultural, multigenerational religious education resources
• How do we practice welcome?

Community: Gatherings and Groups

• Finding Our Way Home, an annual retreat for UU religious professionals of Color
• Thrive for Youth and Young Adults of Color

Stories

• Racial justice stories from our faith movement
• General Assembly presentations on multiculturalism and racial justice
• Catalyst: the UUA newsletter on racial and ethnic ministries

Partnership

Effective justice ministry depends on partnership, since racial discrimination touches everyone. UU partners in racial justice work, beyond the Unitarian Universalist Association, include?UU State Action Networks, the?Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, the?UU College of Social Justice,?Diverse & Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM), and Allies for Racial Equity.?UUs also form interfaith partnerships, such as with the Interfaith Organizing Initiative, Congregation-Based Community Organizations, the Forward Together movement, the NAACP, and the Living Legacy Project.?