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June 2021 “Share the Plate” -Open Communities Alliance

On the suggestion of the Racial Justice Group, we will share our plate in June with the Open Communities Alliance, a Connecticut-based civil rights organization that promotes access to opportunity for all people through education, organizing, advocacy, research, and partnerships. Their particular goal at the moment is advocating for Fair Share Zoning, a system calling

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Donation of African Marriage-Bed Textile to Yale University Art Gallery

PRESS RELEASE Now on display at the Yale University Art Gallery is an Arkilla Kerka, a tent-divider and marriage-bed screen used to seclude the bed of newlyweds.  The textile, donated by Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society in Madison, Connecticut, is 174” x 65¾” and is from the Niafounke region on the interior Niger River delta in

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