The mission of the Union of Minority Neighborhoods is to ensure that skilled, committed, grassroots leaders of color, effectively organize on issues of concern in their communities, regions and nation. Based in Boston, we bring our mission to life by:

    * Organizing
    * Developing new leaders
    * Building broad-based coalitions

Our programs are constituent driven. Activists develop skills and then put these skills into practice by organizing on the issues that affect them.

Our goal is full civic engagement of people of color: no more second class citizenship, no more being a political afterthought, no more ineffective Black political leadership, no more needing well-meaning people speaking on our behalf.

We work for power and we work to win.

We need look no further than to President Obama to know the world is changing.  Yet most people of color have not yet benefitted from these changes.

    * In Massachusetts, Blacks are 5.4% of the population, 26.4% of incarcerated adults. Latinos are 6.8% of the population, 26.2% of incarcerated adults
    * In Massachusetts, Blacks and Latinos are 12.2% of the population. Only 5% of state senators and representatives are Black or Latino and 0% of congressmen.
    * In Boston 68.8% of white students graduate high school, only 54.2% of blacks and 51% of Latinos do.
    * In Boston, the unemployment rate for Black men is 42%.

 

Communities working together, uniting for change, have and will make a difference.