We the People?

Spiking unemployment during the pandemic has resulted in long lines at food pantries (here, in Brooklyn), with Latinx and Black households more than twice as likely as white households to report being food insecure.

The growing divisions and inequities in our democracy became even more stark this year as COVID-19 and its economic impact coincided with a mass uprising against police brutality and systemic racism, and a reactionary backlash. How can we address these “three pandemics” of public health, racial injustice, and economic inequality?

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Illustration including a map of the USA with a black and white US flag superimposed, with an orange background of Covid viruses.

Six experts in public health, racial injustice, economic inequality, extremism, and Unitarian Universalist theology talk about the deep fissures the past year has revealed—and how we can move forward.

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page from Spring 2021: Poem by Everett Hoagland. Text in body of article.

“the word- / less blues cry of Hope”

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Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council Vice-Chairwoman jessie little doe baird

Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council Vice-Chairwoman jessie little doe baird discusses issues facing the Wampanoag and other Native Americans.

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The Rev. Florence Caplow outside the UU Church of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, which in January opened a memorial on its front lawn

Unitarian Universalist congregations in the news.

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