Spring 2017 Lectures: Historical and Future Trajectories of Black Lives Matter and Unitarian Universalism

For its spring 2017 series, the Minns Lectures Committee brought together a group of leading and insurgent Unitarian Universalist historians, ethicists, and activists to consider these questions, among others: Who were the African American leaders in Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist congregations? Why don’t Unitarian Universalists today know about our black antecedents? What is the relationship between this “black hole” in white consciousness about African Americans and the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement?