African Americans

Viewpoint

Who Is My Neighbor?

Can we reject unacceptable actions and still find ways to touch those neighbors in pain? Ellie Beach

Quaker Bestsellers 2016

The top ten best-selling books from the 2016 FGC Gathering. Quakerbooks of FGC
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The Third Reconstruction

It's time to get America above the snake line of racial oppression. William J. Barber II

News, August 2016

News of Friends.

Free subscriptions for those who are incarcerated

Information about a FJ program.
From the Archives

60th Anniversary December 2015

Poverty and the testimony of simplicity. Trevor Johnson
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My Experience as an African American Quaker

A planned memorial for freed slaves in the cemetery exposes lingering divides. Avis Wanda McClinton
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A Journey toward Eliminating Racism in the Religious Society of Friends

A ministry to abolish racism within Quakerism Vanessa Julye
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Love in the Belly of the Beast

Race, punishment, and hope in the prison-industrial complex. Laura Magnani

Slavery in Pennsylvania

Early Friends were not immune to the tragedy of slavery.
Book Club

Book Reviews: April 2012

Bob Dockhorn on Carol Faulkner’s Lucretia Mott’s Heresy, Tom Hamm on Elizabeth Taylor Stirredge’s Strength in Weakness Manifest, and more… Staff

Friends Neighborhood Guild: A Quaker Presence in Philadelphia

The Beginnings In 1879, as an expression of concern for their new immigrant neighbors, Friends in the Northern Liberties section…
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