Racial Justice

We share a common purpose: to grow in our understanding of the challenges of confronting racism in our congregation and community.

Meeting schedule: 2nd Sundays of the Month, from 12pm-2pm in the Library

About Us

The Racial Justice Team is a small group, who each have different personal reasons for engaging in this team: to grow in our understanding of the challenges of confronting racism in our congregation and community, and to actually make a difference over time in lessening latent racism in our small corner of our world. Education and personal involvement are key to this process.

Our Mission

We, the members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Petersburg, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.

March with UUSP!

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Big Parade

Monday, 1/20/25 11 am to 2pm

We will have a float, giveaways, and T-Shirts!

Upcoming Gatherings

Racial Justice Monthly Book Club  Tuesdays 5 - 6:30pm

Save the Dates for 2025:   

January 28 (Tenea D. Johnson, R/evolution)

February 25 (Percival Everett, Erasure)

March 25 (Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give)

April 22 (Sheree Greer, A Return to Arms)

June 3  (Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom) 

4th Sunday RJ Get Together 12 - 2pm

SAVE the Dates for 2025: 

January 26

February 23

March 23

April 27

May 25

Topics planned include: 

St. Pete Black History Walking Tour; Sex Trafficking with a Racial Justice Lens; Identifying and Responding to Microaggressions; and more.  

Stay Tuned!

Living the Pledge: End Racism

Saturdays February 1, 8, & 15, from 9am to 1pm 

This  12-hour training provides a foundation for understanding racism in all its forms and ways we as individuals and collectively might work to end it.

Want to join and make the pledge? Click here!

The 8th Principle

We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.

Contact us!

If you have any questions or comments, please email racialjustice@uustpete.org

We welcome your involvement and input!

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