Black Lives Matter|The VUU

Join our hosts this week as they chat with Lena Gardner, Didi Delgado and Rev. Mykal Slack from BLUU. BLUU stands for Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism. Its mission is to provide information, resources and support for Black Unitarian Universalists and it works to expand the role & visibility of Black UUs within the UU faith.

We talk with Nathan Ryan and Kimberly Hampton about racism differences in the north and the south, our nation’s misremembering of American history, and how institutional UUism doesn’t consistently show up for times of crisis in the black community. For show notes, see https://wp.me/p89xv1-4wJ.

Lena K. Gardner and Leslie Mac, with the Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism organizing collective, join us to talk about the 2017 UUA General Assembly. For details and show notes, visit https://wp.me/p89xv1-4uy.

Kenny Wiley and Christina Rivera join The VUU to talk about the upcoming #UUWhiteSupremacyTeachIn. For all the show notes, go to https://wp.me/p89xv1-4rQ

Lena K. Gardner with Black Lives of UU joins The VUU to talk about recent responses to white supremacy within Unitarian Universalism. For show notes, visit https://wp.me/p89xv1-4sf

Yuri Yamamoto and others involved in the new anthology of authentic stories by Unitarian Universalists of color join The VUU. Get show notes and details at https://wp.me/p89xv1-4tw

Yuri Yamamoto wrote what she calls a “rant” in response to Skinner House’s rejection of an anthology of Unitarian Universalists of color. Her words apply broadly and address the privilege that comes out of a culture of white supremacy. This is an excerpt from episode #180 of The VUU.

Lena K. Gardner and Dr. Takiyah Amin of the Black Lives of UU organizing collective talk about the inaugural BLUU Convening held March 9-12, 2017 in New Orleans.

Kenny Wiley and Lena K. Gardner join us from the Black Lives of UU organizing collective. What a full and deep conversation about immigration, the threats to penalize protestors and how that will change organizing tactics, the need to move from reactionary to visionary, the life-giving form of creativity around resistance. Plus, Kenny, Lena and host Aisha Hauser made a passionate and compassionate call for white UUs to step up both their internal and external work around anti-racism and anti-oppression.

Leslie Mac and Lena K. Gardner join The VUU from the Black Lives of UU organizing collective. We talk about assumptions around authority, decentering whiteness, humility and the need for liberal white folks to first do the work within and not expect kudos for not voting for Trump.