Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. By Matthew Desmond. Crown Publishing Group, 2016. 422 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback; $12.99/eBook. […]
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Evicted AND Dream Hoarders
J. E. McNeil, an attorney in Washington, D.C., and a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (FMW), grew up in a working class neighborhood in the Jim Crow South. She worked her way through college and later law school when that was still a possibility. Now culturally if not financially part of the upper middle class with three degrees, she supports the Mary Jane Simpson Scholarship Fund at FMW and the Bell Multicultural High School in Columbia Heights, D.C.
Posted in: April 2018 Books, Healing, Quaker Book Reviews
Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty
By Jay Gillen. AK Press, 2014. 178 pages. $15.95/paperback; $10.99/eBook. A forward by civil rights leader Bob Moses gives Educating […]
Rosalie Dance is a member of Adelphi (Md.) Meeting, sojourner at Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md. Rosalie has taught mathematics in secondary schools and universities for many years.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2015 Books, September 2015: Reproduction and Family Planning, UncategorizedAnne Parrish: Unsung Friend
The ministries of Quaker women who notably served the Religious Society of Friends have received well‐deserved attention. In most cases, […]
Greg Barnes is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. This article is adapted from text in his forthcoming book on Arch Street Meeting House. His last book was A Biography of Lillian and George Willoughby, 20th-Century Peace Activists.
Posted in: FeaturesWhat am I Doing Here?: Partnering with a Himalayan Village
I first went to the Himalayan Mountains in Nepal as an adventurer and mountain climber in 1995. After four Himalayan […]
Jeff Rasley attends Indianapolis (Ind.) First Friends Meeting. His book, Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got From Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal, is now available.
Posted in: FeaturesA La Chureca Christmas
My friend Michael popped into my office. When he told me he couldn’t make it to Nicaragua this year for […]
Herb Haigh, a member of St. Petersburg (Fla.) Meeting, is president of Ameri-Plus Select Services, a Medicare Select hospital network. He and his wife, Pam, are available to talk about the work of ProNica to monthly meetings and other interested groups; contact through http://www.pronica.org.
Posted in: FeaturesFWCC and Affluent and Impoverished Friends
The October issue on the 70th anniversary of Friends World Committee for Consultation was a wonderful celebration of how Friends […]
Newton Garver is a member of Buffalo (N.Y.) Meeting.
Posted in: FeaturesJuarez Reflections
The three empty bird cages are stacked forlornly against the wall of the house on the small concrete paved patio, […]
Mary Ray Cate is a member of Santa Fe (N.Mex.) Meeting and an artist who sells her work to benefit AFSC, Centro Santa Catalina, and other nonprofit organizations.
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