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We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
By Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden. Bloomsbury YA, 2018. 288 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 12â18. In her 2016 [âŠ]
Anna Carolyn McCormally is a member of Herndon (Va.) Meeting. She is the recipient of Pendle Hillâs 2019 Minnie Jane Arts Scholarship and is serving as writer in residence there from March through July 2019. Anna has a MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews
Building White Racial Stamina
The primary way to develop racial stamina is to wade or dive in.
Elizabeth (Liz) A. Oppenheimer carries a concern for addressing whiteness and racism among Friends. She recently distributed an open letter to white Friends, which is on her web-log at _thegoodraisedup.blogspot.com_. She is a member of Bear Creek Meeting outside of Earlham, Iowa, and worships with Laughing Waters Friends Preparative Meeting of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative).
Posted in: Features, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
2018 Quakers in Politics Web Panel
The upcoming U.S. Congressional midâterm elections already have at least seven Quaker candidates for office. How does their Quaker faith [âŠ]
Posted in: Blogs, Unfeatured
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
By KeeangaâYamahtta Taylor. Haymarket Books, 2016. 288 pages. $17.95/paperback; $17.99/eBook. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by KeeangaâYamahtta Taylor places the [âŠ]
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on Baltimore Yearly Meetingâs Growing Diverse Leadership and Peace and Social Concerns committees.
Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries
Charlottesville Quakers and the Ongoing Stand against White Nationalists
Quakers can learn to be braver and more outspoken.
Isaac Barnes May is a graduate of Earlham College and Harvard Divinity School. Currently he is a doctoral candidate specializing in American religious history at the University of Virginia and a member of Charlottesville (Va.) Meeting.
Posted in: Online Features, September 2017, Uncategorized
Black people just want to be treated equally
Student Voices: âWhy does the mistreatment satisfy people? Does it make these people happy to make us feel like we [âŠ]
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
Friends, Peace, and Justice in Baltimore
Weekly vigils against war and for peace find a new focus for Baltimore Friends after the 2015 death of Freddie [âŠ]
Kathryn Munnell is a member of Homewood Meeting in Baltimore, Md. She currently serves on the Peace and Justice Committee of her meeting. She has divided her career between working on peace and justice issues and teaching in public high schools in Baltimore and New York City.
Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Online Features
Our Drop in the Wave of Liberation
A visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on the Peace and Social Concerns Committee and Growing Diverse Leadership Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. She is a member of Sandy Spring Friends Schoolâs board of trustees, the DC Peace Team, and the Quaker PalestineâIsrael Network.
Posted in: Features, Race and Anti-Racism
Student Voices 2016 Option 3: Conflicts in Community
What happens when there are differences or conflicts within a community? How do we respond with patience, tolerance, and openness [âŠ]
Features
Thou Shalt Wear Comfy Shoes by Suzanne W. Cole Sullivan
In Defense of Blue KoolâAid by Kat Griffith
The Next Testimony by Andrew Huff
How to Be an Inclusive Quaker by Valerie Brown
Uncertainty: An Unnamed Quaker Creed? by Rhiannon Grant
When Is a Creed Not a Creed? by Ann Birch
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River Crossing by Anne+Maren-Hogan
Somewhere in This Large Field by David Black
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