Resources for Black History Month

Organize a book circle to read Breathe: A Letter to My Sons, the UUA ’s 2020-2021 Common Read.  Note:  Available from many retailers as a book, ebook and an audiobook.

Watch and share a story about the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, voting rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Shared in simple language with engaging visuals.

Read Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 and buy it from a Black-owned bookstore.

Watch the Democracy Now! feature on the upcoming documentary “My Name is Pauli Murray”. Murray was a Black queer trans legal scholar and religious leader who influenced both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall and their groundbreaking civil rights cases before the Supreme Court.