African Americans

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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

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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
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…

Amachi: Faith-Based Mentoring to Children of Prisoners

Amachi is a national initiative to provide caring, committed mentors to the children of prisoners.
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