Racial Justice Action from your UUFH Allies for Racial Equity (ARE) Team
Check out their website and see if any of their activities interest you. www.uuare.org
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
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:
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.
Living the Pledge To End Racism Workshop
Starting Sunday, September 25, 3:00 – 5:00 pm, UUFR (Raleigh) and Millbrook United Methodist Church are offering the joint virtual Living the Pledge workshop sessions. The workshop will consist of six 2-hour virtual sessions on Sundays, September 25th, October 2nd, October 9th, October 23rd, October 30th, and November 6th. We ask participants to commit to attending all sessions.
Multiple UUFH members have attended past workshops and recommend this series to all members for both its depth of content and skilled facilitators.
Registration ends Thursday, September 8th, or when all spaces are filled.
Register HERE
PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES – Justice Forum
The Justice Forum this year is on October 11 at 7 pm and features guest speaker Dr. Jamilla Michener.
Info HERE
JOIN NAACP local chapter:
Show our commitment to the ARE project by joining our local NAACP chapter. An application is included below for your convenience. Thanks for joining our justice efforts in Hendersonville. Print out this form ( NAACP Membership FORM ); mail with your payment of $30 to; NAACP 318 N. Main Street Suite #11 Hendersonville NC 28792. Our local unit number; 5477
BLACK HISTORY in Henderson County — BRCC Class
Ronnie Pepper has a class at BRCC Center for Lifelong Learning, Oct 26th, 10 AM – noon. “Black History in Henderson County “ Register – brcll.com – course # 69498
Also check out this website: Black History (blackhistories.org
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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