Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Forum Podcasts
The Speaker's Forum is held each Sunday morning from 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Forum topics often address and spur dialogue about a current local community, statewide, national or international issue. Some forums feature a local author and the topic of the author's new book, or a representative of a local non-governmental organization (NGO) describing the organization’s work, programs, and accomplishments.
Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Forum Podcasts
Living Conditions, Reentry Challenges & Civil Liberties of Alaskas Prisoners - Robert Churchill, NAACP
Robert Churchill has been involved with organizations with equal rights as a core value for over 40 years. He has assisted incarcerated Alaskans for the past decade as a volunteer with the NAACP, Alaska Branch 1000 in Anchorage, and the Alaska Nations Reentry Group, providing help to hundreds of individuals, especially Alaska Natives, with discrimination claims, medical and other issues. One of the Reentry Group projects resulted in a multicultural panel that does a cultural orientation for new police officers. Robert was a long-time member and Chair of the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission. He is the former Director of Human Resources for the United States Postal Service in Alaska, and since he retired from that position, he has owned an HR consulting business. As a parent, he was active for many years with the Anchorage Community Council system and volunteered with the Anchorage public school system. Robert lives in Anchorage with his wife, Susan, and together they have two adult children.
Recommended books:
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar.
The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene
From Here to Equality by A. Kirsten Mullen and William A. Darity Jr.
From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity Jr & A. Kirsten Mullen
Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration by Christine Montross
PBS documentary series (part of Independent Lens) - Philly D.A. | District Attorney Larry Krasner (can be watched online using PBS Passport
Robert Churchill phone - (907) 529-0935