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 UUSP Racial Justice Team is a small group of diverse individuals. Although we each have different personal reasons for engaging in this team, we share a common purpose: 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. We see education and personal involvement as key to this process.

Our Mission

The mission of the UUSP Racial Justice Team is to live the Unitarian Universalist 8TH PRINCIPLE and keep it front and center within our team and throughout our church:

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.

Living the Pledge: End Racism

In 2023, the Racial Justice Team adopted the National Pledge to End Racism Initiative: https://pledgetoendracism.org/

In 2023-2024, over 40 UUSP members completed the 12-hour training and signed the pledge to end racism.

Want to join and make the pledge? Click here!

Living, Learning, and Practicing Racial Justice at UU St Pete:

FOURTH SUNDAY OF THE MONTH RACIAL JUSTICE GET TOGETHERS 12 - 2 PM

ALL INVITED

Sunday, 11/24 12 pm in Conway Hall

UU St Pete Learns & Pinellas Remembers: A film and guest speaker discussion about the legacy of lynching

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.

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Racial Justice Monthly Book Club NEW

Racial Justice Monthly Book Club

Tuesday, November 19 5-6:30 pm

UU St Pete Library

The Ways of White Folks, Langston Hughes

Join us to discuss this collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in the 1920s and ‘30s.

Born in 1901, Langston Hughes worked for a time as a personal assistant to historian Carter G. Woodson at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Washington, D.C. He also worked as a busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington before going on to university and a career as a writer of poetry, plays, fiction, and non-fiction. Hughes died in 1967.

More information here!

Contact: Rebecca.Wilson@uustpete.org