CNN, AUGUST 2020

CNN did three separate live stories about the food distribution program at our church which is run by our sister organization, Urban Partners Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Magazine, June 2020

How a Cranky 77-Year-Old Communist from Nicaragua Saved L.A.’s Most Unconventional Church

First Unitarian is “LA’s most unconventional church…Without a minister, the church is run like a cosmic kibbutz—with a carousel of guest speakers. And it’s working. The church’s ledgers moved into the black for the first time in recent memory, and it plays an outsize role in progressive politics and culture.”

UU WORLD, JUNE 2020

UU congregations partner with housing, food nonprofits amid pandemic

“In Los Angeles’s Koreatown, nonprofit Urban Partners Los Angeles (UPLA) started the Our Groceries for Our Neighbors program in 1992. Volunteers with the UU-founded nonprofit distribute groceries from First Unitarian Church, where UPLA is also headquartered.”

kcal-9 cbs Los Angeles, MARCH 28, 2020

Free Grocery Giveaway Helps Families Impacted By Coronavirus Pandemic

“My hours have dropped. I work at Subway just right up the road there. I went from 40 hours a week to 10 hours a week,” said resident John Napoleon, who came out to get groceries for his family. “This is just a blessing in disguise.

NBC-4 Los Angeles, MARCH 21, 2020

Urban Partners LA is Feeding Neighbors During Pandemic

“At the First Unitarian Church …They will be distributing over 25,000 pounds of food each week here in Koreatown.”

LA TIMES, AUGUST 7, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s L.A. fundraisers were more about raising consciousness than money

“They’re not voting because they don’t feel like anyone’s fighting for them,” Ocasio-Cortez told an audience of 750 at the First Unitarian Church in Koreatown on Friday night. “When we take that risk and fight for them they will come out for us.”

LA TIMES, DECEMBER 13, 1987

Religiously Anti-Establishment : First Unitarian Church Has Championed Liberal Causes for Half a Century

“If the Rev. Jerry Falwell ever found himself at a Sunday morning service at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, he might think he had died and gone to hell. The congregation of the handsome Unitarian Universalist church is made up mostly of secular humanists and even some atheists.”

LA Times, May 27, 1986

Freewheeling Faith : Unitarians: Oneness in Diversity

“Schulz pointed to Los Angeles’ First Unitarian Church as an outstanding example of the denomination’s commitment to ethnic and social concerns…The church is active in women’s and minority rights issues, union organizing and the anti-nuclear movement and opposes U.S. intervention in Central America.”