So many links!

Videos from General Assembly:

• General Assembly 2017 online (all the recordings)
• The three co-presidents being interviewed at the second plenary session by Jesse King, an organizational consultant and chair of our UU Ministerial Fellowship Committee. This replaced the traditional “Presidents Report”
• The co-presidents gave the “President and UUA Staff Report” at the third plenary session
• In this video you will hear from Lena Gardner, Executive Director of BLUU; from Paula Jones, a lifelong UU from All Souls in Washington DC; and Rev Mel Hoover who received the UUA Distinguished Service Award in 2013
• One of the most powerful and moving presentations at GA was from Dr Sanyika, a BLUU Elder, who shares his story about being one of the UU’s we lost in 1968 when we did not fulfill our promise to the Black Affairs Council

Black Empowerment Controversy information

• Empowerment controversy timeline

• Wilderness Journey: The Struggle for Black Empowerment and Racial Justice within the UUA 1967-1970 (documentary available on youtube)

• “The Empowerment Tragedy” article in the 2012 UU World

About Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism

• BLUU website
• BLUU facebook page
• “UUA Board of Trustees Commits $5.3 million to Black Lives of UU” article in the Oct. 2016 UU World