Spring 2017
Historical and Future Trajectories of Black Lives Matter and Unitarian Universalism
The Black Hole in the White UU Psyche
Rev. Mark Morrison-Reed
Date: March 31, 2017
Location: First Church Boston
Respondents: Rev. Mary Margaret Earl, Executive Director and Senior Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry; DiDi Delgado, writer and activist
For its spring 2017 series, the Minns Lectures Committee hosted a group of leading and insurgent Unitarian Universalist historians, ethicists, and activists who presented their research on the historical and future trajectories of Black Lives Matter and Unitarian Universalism. 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?
The Rev. Mark Morrison-Reed ia an Affiliated Member of Meadville-Lombard Theological School.