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Tag Archives | African American
A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality
J.E. McNeil is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and an attorney. She has lived in Houston, Tex., where there is no zoning, and Washington, D.C., where there is lots of zoning, and has yet to be convinced that zoning is a good thing.
Posted in: Drugs, January 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book ReviewsBarbara K. Spring
SpringāBarbara K. Spring, 76, on June 11, 2019, at home in Voorheesville, N.Y., surrounded by her family. Barbara was born [ā¦]
Posted in: Drugs, Milestones
The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA
By Brenda Woods. Nancy Paulsen Books, 2019. 208 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $8.99/paperback (available January 2020); $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 10 and [ā¦]
Jerry Mizell Williams is a member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and book reviews on colonial Latin America.
Posted in: December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, Quaker KidsThomas Marvin Applegate
ApplegateāThomas Marvin Applegate, 82, on October 31, 2018, peacefully, in Dayton, Ohio, with family and a few Dayton Friends present, [ā¦]
Posted in: Gambling, Milestones
Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote
By Susan Zimet with Todd HasakāLowy. Viking, 2018. 168 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 10 and up. An accessible [ā¦]
Gwen Gosney Erickson is a librarian and archivist at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C.
Posted in: December 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Christianity
To Imagine Change through Many Voices
The pages of a book can unpack the truths and realities of those we do not know.
Detmer Kremer is a writer and reader based out of the Netherlands and London, where he is currently attending graduate school. He is a former participant of Quaker Voluntary Service in Atlanta, and considers Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting one of his homes.
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Features
Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds
By Nancy A. Hewitt. The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 440 pages. $39.95/hardcover; $29.99/eBook. Throughout American history, the Quaker [ā¦]
Cameron McWhirter is a journalist and the author of Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America. He is a member of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting and has served on the Board of Trustees of Friends Publishing Corporation, publisher of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Meetings and Money, October 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
A Reluctant Minister
Reflections on performance art among Friends.
A Bible scholar, filmmaker, playwright, activist, and actor, Peterson Toscano playfully explores the serious worlds of LGBTQ issues, religion, and climate change. After spending 17 years attempting to āde-gayā himself through gay conversion therapy, he came out a quirky, queer Quaker who recognizes the power of storytelling, petersontoscano.com.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, FeaturesCatherine Balderston Jones Gaskill
GaskillāCatherine Balderston Jones Gaskill, 90, of John Knox Village, Orange City, Fla., on July 27, 2017. Cathy was born on [ā¦]
Posted in: Milestones, Quaker Lifestyles
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