Racial Justice Action from your UUFH Allies for Racial Equity (ARE) Team
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ARE (Allies for Racial Equity) NEWS & ACTION ITEMS
ARE Congregational Project proposal link: (22-23 UUFH Congr. Project Allies for Racial Equity.) The Fellowship voted to adopt the ARE project at our June 2022 Annual Meeting. All members are welcome and encouraged to find their individual role(s) as an active participant in the project activities.
jUUstice FORUM series
The Forum series meets on the 4th Monday of each month, 1pm. via ZOOM.
Discussion topics will be announced in advance. Upcoming jUUstice Forum sessions will be on topics pertaining to our UUFH ARE Congregational Project
Please join us Monday, September 26 at 1 pm for a discussion of another great read, All That She Carried by Tyra Mills, led and facilitated by Helen Bishop.
Helen provided the following text to introduce us to this work:
In 2007, a white woman looking through piles of used fabrics in a flea market in Nashville, TN came across a cotton sack, embroidered with an inscription that indicated a woman named Rose had made the sack and given it to her daughter, Ashley. Rose had put a few things in the sack for Ashley: a cotton dress, three handfuls of pecans, a braid of Rose’s hair, and “much love always”.
The white woman, guessing that Rose and Ashley were Black, and probably enslaved, did some research and found Middleton Place, a plantation in South Carolina. The names “Rose” and “Ashley” were listed as the property of the plantation’s owner, Robert Middleton, who had died in 1852. She contacted Middleton Place and talked to the executive director, who thought the sack might indeed have been made by an enslaved woman at Middleton Place. The director contacted the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture, and loaned the sack to the newly-opened museum. There it caught the eye of a Black historian, Tyra Miles, who went on to write All That She Carried, writing about the lives of enslaved people in South Carolina in the 19th century.
We will be discussing this book at 1 pm on September 26. It’s available at the Henderson County library, in print and large print, and as an audiobook. It’s also available from Highland Books in Brevard, and Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville, as well as Amazon.
MEETING & FORUM SCHEDULES
Social Justice (SJT) and Allies for Racial Equity (ARE) Teams meet jointly, the first TUESDAY of each month,12-1:30pm, via ZOOM
All are welcome to attend; these meetings are your chance to provide input and contribute to our UUFH justice efforts. Contact Charlotte Corrigan for more information, i.e., agenda, prior minutes, Zoom link – if you would like to participate.
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