Black and Brown Clergy and Community Coalition

Black and Latinx Pastors Working Together

The Black/Brown Clergy/Community Coalition (BBCCC), builds a common advocacy agenda for African American and Latinx pastors in Southern California. 

BBCCC Goals:

  • Ensuring healthcare for all
  • Building a larger, fairer economy
  • Ending homelessness and pushing for affordable housing
  • Defeating laws that over-police low-income people and people of color
  • Protecting union rights and the labor movement 
  • Ending police violence in our communities
  • Working for true immigration reform

Check the Sheriff

On July 15th, 2020 a coalition of religious leaders, unions, and community partners representing tens of thousands of Angelenos presented a letter to the LA County Sheriff’s Department to demand the resignation of Sheriff Alex Villanueva.

A Larger, Fairer Economy

  • Yes on Proposition 50

    By CLUE Board of Directors Proposition 50 Endorsement:  The Election Rigging and Response Act We, the members of the CLUE Board, endorse Proposition 50, the Election Rigging and Response Act, for California’s Statewide Special Election on November 4.  As members of an interfaith social justice organization, we endorse the measure from our conviction that the

    Read More

Our Resources

Yes on Proposition 50

By CLUE Board of Directors Proposition 50 Endorsement:  The Election Rigging and Response Act We, the members of the CLUE Board, endorse Proposition 50, the Election Rigging and Response Act, for California’s Statewide Special Election on November 4.  As members of an interfaith social justice organization, we endorse the measure from our conviction that the

Read More

The Banality of Evil

By CLUE Executive Director, Reverend Jennifer Gutierrez Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “banality of evil” when she was covering the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961. Eichmann was a senior member of the Nazi party and a primary perpetrator of Hitler’s so-called Final Solution. What impressed Arendt during the trial was that Eichmann seemed primarily motivated

Read More

This is Holy Work

By Bailey Payne, 2025 Young Religious Leadership Fellow I’m a seminary student in LA in 2025. I feel like a rare breed. As religious affiliation has been on the decline in America, so has seminary enrollment. Coming from the Protestant tradition, my coming-of-age questions have been along the lines of, “How do you lead a

Read More

Freedom Cruise Wrap and Next Steps

Los Angeles, CA – On Thursday, July 3, community members of all kinds from across Southern California will come together in the epicenter of the region to launch a new solidarity movement to pressure local governments and corporations that are wreaking havoc on families and communities. 

Read More

DEF Justice – A New Campaign of Economic Resistance

Southern California communities are at a breaking point with families being ripped apart, and threat of irreparable harm from the current administration’s wantonly cruel policies. A new solidarity movement is coalescing to meet the moment and recommit to dignity, equity, and freedom.

Read More