The Racial Justice Committee now has a fund arranged through the UCG Shelby Next site where donations can be received for our committee to fund several projects!  We hope to support buying desks ($30 per desk with chair) for indigent children in Ho, Ghana, keeping our supply of Black History Matters T-Shirts available for Black History Month and the MLK March on January 20, co-sponsoring several local events with other community racial justice groups, as well as helping to fund several upcoming seminars and projects.  We hope that you will consider even a small donation for this fund!  There is much to be done for racial justice now.

Black History Matters T-shirt Sale – The UCG Racial Justice Committee will once again be selling their Black History Matters shirts in the courtyard on Sundays, January 5, 12, 19, February 2 and 9. Cost is $20 payable by cash, check, or credit card payments accepted in the front office.

Join us on Sunday, January 19 at 10 a.m. in the Sanctuary to worship in honor of MLK weekend. We will welcome Pamela Marshall- Koons, who will present the one woman show, “Voices of Courage.” Fannie Lou Hamer’s voice of courage from the cotton fields of Mississippi to the halls of our nation’s capital made her a fearless fighter and a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement. Come, learn, and be captivated by a piece of American history you may have not been taught in school.

March with us on Monday, January 20 – Meet at noon at the bicycle racks on the SE corner of Bo Diddley Plaza. We will march from the plaza to the Martin Luther King Center at Citizens Field. There is shuttle bus transportation provided back to the plaza. Black History Matters t-shirts will be sold at UCG through January 19, and all are invited to wear them for the march.