“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home,” Eleanor Roosevelt famously said in a speech at the United Nations. As Coordinator of the Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory Commission, Leslie Dominguez-Santos knows the status of those rights here in our home community. In this program, she will share the data and the stories of how and where community members experience discrimination. In her overview of human rights on Cape Cod, she will focus on … Continue reading 26 Apr 2026: Human Rights on Cape Cod and You!

Several members of Pancheta Peterson’s long-running Racial Justice Study Group will join Pancheta—an educator and diversity pastor at First Parish Brewster UU, and throughout the Cape—to share reflections and “aha” moments from the books they’ve read together on U.S. history through the lens of racial justice and injustice, as well as the conversations those readings inspired. The program will include music from the Civil Rights Movement, stories, personal reflections, and time for Q&A and conversation with those gathered in the … Continue reading 22 Feb 2026: Racial Justice Then and Now

Join us on January 25, 2026, as Carla Kaplan discusses Troublemaker, her new book which tells the wild and unlikely story of Jessica Mitford, a British aristocrat-turned-American Communist, famous for exposés like The American Way of Death. Jessica Mitford, always known as Decca, dedicated her life to social justice and proved herself an immensely effective ally, but she also injected laughter into all her political work, annoying some activists with her relentless antics but encouraging many others to find joy … Continue reading 25 Jan 2026: The Story of Jessica Mitford

Program for Sunday, November 14, 2021 gkisedtanamoogk [KEE set TAH nah mook] was one of five commissioners on the Maine Wabanaki State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission which worked from February 2013 to June 2015 to uncover the truth about child-welfare practice with Maine’s Native people and create opportunities for people to heal and learn from what they discovered. Reparations and reconciliation is hard work, best undertaken with grounding and intention. How did the Maine Commission come to be … Continue reading 14 Nov 2021: “Reparations Would be Necessary for a Great Many Reasons” with gkisedtanamook