“Educating the Incarcerated to Build and ReBuild Beloved Community” Kimonti Carter

Our Social Justice Speaker Series, focused for this church year on Building Beloved Community, continues this month with Kimonti Carter. He is both the former president and a current member of the Black Prisoners’ Caucus, plus the founder of TEACH (Taking Education and Creating History). While incarcerated, Kimonti led a movement to create a model of education seeking to transform prisoners’ lives and their communities – our prisons and our humanity. His story is featured in the film “Since I Been Down,” and it invites us who are Unitarian Universalists to live deeply into our shared values, which call us to create diverse multicultural Beloved Communities where everyone thrives.

Kimonti Carter is both the former president and a current member of the Black Prisoners’ Caucus (BPC), plus the founder of T.E.A.C.H (Taking Education and Creating History), the BPC’s higher education program for the incarcerated. This program was inspired by the idea that education is foundational to the elimination of inter-generational poverty, debt and homelessness, plus building stronger communities and an improved quality of life – even for those serving long (often unjustly long) prison sentences. Since his release in 2024, as a result of a landmark Washington Supreme Court decision, he has worked tirelessly to expand access to educational opportunities for the incarcerated. 

We will be doing a Special Collection to benefit BPC T.E.A.C.H. (Black Prisoners’ Caucus: Taking Education and Creating History)

Immediately after the worship service (at Noon), we will have a screening of the film ”Since I Been Down” followed by a Q & A discussion with both Kimonti Carter and the Filmmaker Gilda Sheppard. (The run time of the film is 1 hour and 45 minutes – bring a sack lunch to eat during the film). Preview a trailer of the film HERE.

Special Collection: BPC T.E.A.C.H. (Black Prisoners’ Caucus: Taking Education and Creating History)

Multi-Platform Worship (both in-person & online)

Sunday at 10:30 AM

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Meeting ID:  275 194 110

Phone In:  (669) 900-6833