The title says it all.  I am following the development of this story and eager to see faith communities like First Unitarian of Rochester, mobilize on this.  Please read this and spread it around.  Then have a look at the PDF I’m attaching that lays out a few ‘slave’ rules from Manhattan in the 16 – 19th centuries.  Little seems to have changed.

Three Black Students Waiting for Bus Arrested…

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We have just begun the season of Advent in the Christian church.  We are coming to the end of Hanukkah.  We have just had Thanksgiving.  In each of these celebrations is a very deep sense of both anticipation and longing for wholeness and peace.  Let’s fix this.

– Adam