This film, Wilderness Journey: The Struggle for Black Empowerment and Racial Justice within the Unitarian Universalist Association, 1967-1970 which shows interviews of many Unitarian Universalist leaders who lived through those complex times will be re-shown to give an historical context to what is currently going on in the UUA. Discussion will follow the 76 minute film.

Many black UUs—including a young [Bill] Sinkford [immediate past President of the UUA]—left the faith during the “black empowerment controversy” of the late 1960s and early 1970s, feeling betrayed and disappointed with unfulfilled promises of racial justice. Sinkford told the [UUA] board [at their April 2017 meeting], “We are being given yet another second chance this time, and my response of ‘Yes’ to this call was grounded in the hope we would not blow it once again.”

from http://www.uuworld.org/articles/board-report-april-2017?utm_source=uuworld&utm_medium=front&utm_campaign=stories