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

  • Applications are being accepted now for the 2026 Young Religious Leaders Fellowship!

    Join the 2026 Summer Young Religious Leaders Fellowship and work alongside experienced community organizers and faith leaders in the fight for a just economy! The Young Religious Leaders Fellowship (YRLF) is a dynamic fellowship program that combines weekly cohort meetings with supervised hands-on community organizing to develop future and current leaders to make a faith-based

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Applications are being accepted now for the 2026 Young Religious Leaders Fellowship!

Join the 2026 Summer Young Religious Leaders Fellowship and work alongside experienced community organizers and faith leaders in the fight for a just economy! The Young Religious Leaders Fellowship (YRLF) is a dynamic fellowship program that combines weekly cohort meetings with supervised hands-on community organizing to develop future and current leaders to make a faith-based

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Hiring: CLUE Faith-Rooted Organizer in Orange County & Long Beach

CLUE Faith-Rooted Organizer in Orange County & Long Beach Please send cover letter and resume to Rev. Kara Howard at [email protected] Position Description A Faith-Rooted Organizer (“Organizer”) educates, organizes, and mobilizes faith and community leaders to engage in economic justice campaigns. The organizer builds and leads a committee of faith leaders who are prepared and

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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

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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

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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

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