On September 6th I had the enormous honor of getting to talk with Chris Crass, white anti-racist organizer and Unitarian Universalist. We had a wide ranging conversation about faith, organizing white people for racial justice, the status of racial justice among Quakers and Unitarian Universalists, and a lot more. We posted the conversation as a series of 5 blog posts.

Chris Crass is a longtime organizer, educator, and writer working to build powerful working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation. He is one of the leading voices in the country calling for and supporting white people to work for racial justice.

Chris Crass is a longtime organizer, educator, and writer working to build powerful working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation. He is one of the leading voices in the country calling for and supporting white people to work for racial justice.

I visited Gaza as a new reconciliation deal raised hopes for Palestinians who live there. Here’s what I saw and heard. 

Editor’s note: Earlier this month, Jennifer Bing and other AFSC staff from the U.S. traveled to the occupied Palestinian territory to meet with other staff in the region. We’ll be publishing their reflections on AFSC’s Acting in Faith blog in the coming weeks.

This week, Foreign Policy published an FBI memo from early August that claims there is an increased threat of violence from “Black Identity Extremists,” a term recently invented by law enforcement. Activists and defenders of civil liberties across the country were quick to point out that this both had no basis in fact, and could easily be used to justify surveillance and disruption of Black activists. Here’s what we’re reading to learn more.   

Chris Crass is a longtime organizer, educator, and writer working to build powerful working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation.  He is one of the leading voices in the country calling for and supporting white people to work for racial justice.