We are overjoyed to share the latest achievement from our Trinity UCC family. Eli Moss, son of our Senior Pastor and founder of the Unashamed Media Group, Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, is currently directing his new student film, “Sadness of Men,” at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he continues to develop his craft in their prestigious film program.
Social justice can be as simple as picking up dog excrement. “In kindergarten, we had this unit that was called ‘Agents of Change,’ and we had to find something that we saw wrong in the world—but, I guess, specifically Manhattan or New York—and we wanted to try to right those wrongs,” Amadeus Belafonte says. “I …
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Imani Village, spearheaded by Trinity United Church of Christ, aims to revitalize Chicago’s South Side Pullman neighborhood through a comprehensive development plan. This initiative includes affordable housing, senior housing, a health clinic, educational and community spaces, an organic garden, and a retail center. Funded through various grants and loans, the eco-friendly, LEED-certified project also focuses …
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President Joe Biden renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and highlighted federal spending in historically Black colleges during Sunday’s speech before hundreds of Morehouse College graduates who represent a demographic Biden needs to win the Nov. 5 election. Biden’s role as commencement speaker at the storied historically Black college in Atlanta had …
On the campus of Paul Quinn College at the Social Justice Conference, the former and the new head of the Rainbow Push Coalition came together. Dr. Frederick Haynes, III of Dallas, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church is humbled by the legacy of leadership Rev. Jesse Jackson is handing over to him as president of …
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Teacher Leslie Jones, center, poses with students from Alexandria City High School’s drama department students in northern Virginia. Alexandria City High School hide caption toggle caption Alexandria City High School Teacher Leslie Jones, center, poses with students from Alexandria City High School’s drama department students in northern Virginia. Alexandria City High School …
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Jordan Michael Smith’s “Making art political is one way to make it bad” (Ideas, Dec. 31) sacrifices Leo Tolstoy on the altar of amorality and relativism. Tolstoy’s sin? Writing, in his largely forgotten third novel, “Resurrection,” about how people recover from aristocratic indifference and brutality; how human nature isn’t confined to a dog-eat-dog, fight-flight-or-freeze …
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Tell them to pass the The Smith-Wyden Bipartisan Child Tax Credit bill. January 17, 2024 Hardworking families need your help right NOW. Call 1-888-738-3058 today and urge Congress to pass the Smith-Wyden Bipartisan Child Tax Credit. Republicans and Democrats worked together on this important legislation that would increase the tax credit for hardworking families …
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As the new year brings continued threats of global war, challenges to democracy, climate change and increasingly powerful artificial intelligence, there is a paramount need for individuals to speak out and act against hate. That was the message that author and advocate Michelle Alexander shared Jan. 15 as the memorial keynote speaker in the University …
MLK speaker urges courage, love to oppose hate, racism Read More »
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It is our hope to truly reach all nations, teaching people to use love as the first tool in solving the myriad of problems we face.
