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Patricia Rae Stansky Lucas

By Staff on February 1, 2020

Lucas—Patricia Rae Stansky Lucas, 87, on July 30, 2019, in Agrace Hospice Center, in Madison, Wis., peacefully, in the company [
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Posted in: February 2020, Milestones
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Stumbling Forward toward Racial Justice among Friends

By Lucy Duncan and Noah White on March 1, 2017

Two Friends share their stories of growing up in a race‐defined world and how they’ve been led to work for [
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Lucy Duncan serves American Friends Service Committee as director of Friends Relations and is a storyteller and member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. Noah White is an adjunct professor at Temple University in the College of Public Health. He loves a challenge and the thrill of competition. He also enjoys helping others attain their kinesthetic goals.

 

Posted in: Features, Race and Anti-Racism
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”Walking the Walk: Greg Woods

By Breeze Richardson on May 1, 2007

In December 1999, 14‐year‐old Greg Woods attended the “High School Quake,” a gathering of Illinois Yearly Meeting youth. Along with [
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Breeze Richardson, a young adult Friend, is a member and currently clerk of 57th Street Meeting in Chicago, Ill. She is a public radio producer. Project Lakota is under the care of St. Louis (Mo.) Meeting; for more information, go online to http://iym.quaker.org/projectlakota/index.html. Greg Woods participated in The Quake that Rocked the Midwest, a multimedia presentation that appears on the Friends Journal website at https://www.friendsjournal.org/quake/index.html.

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