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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

By Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee on September 1, 2018

By Jeanne Theoharis. Beacon Press, 2018. 288 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in Jan. 2019); $24.99/eBook. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. […]

Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Growing Diverse Leadership and Peace and Social Concerns Committees.

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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By Reviewed by David Etheridge on September 1, 2018

By Robin DiAngelo. Beacon Press, 2018. 192 pages. $16/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Robin DiAngelo, the white woman who wrote this book, has […]

David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism.

Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books

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Vincent Paul Buscemi

By Staff on September 1, 2018

Buscemi—Vincent Paul Buscemi, 89, on March 11, 2017, at home in New York City. Vince was born on May 18, […]

Posted in: Milestones, September 2018

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Art That Works

By Joey Hartmann-Dow on June 1, 2018

Can art really change the world?

Joey Hartmann-Dow is a member of Lehigh Valley Meeting in Bethlehem, Pa., and is currently nomadic. You can keep up with her projects and adventures at usandweart.com.

Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Features

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Family Is Family

By Abel Rupertus on May 1, 2018

I am adopted. Both my mom and my dad are white. Both of my sisters are also white. My brother […]

Abel Rupertus, Grade 6, Greene Street Friends School

Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?

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Forum, March 2018

By Staff on March 1, 2018

Letters and commentary from our readers.

Posted in: Forum, Quakers and the Holy Land

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Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

By Reviewed by Steve Chase on January 1, 2018

By Drew G. I. Hart. Herald Press, 2016. 157 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $16.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. A few months ago, I walked to […]

Posted in: January 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quaker Lifestyles

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Conscientious Objection: Is This for You? Discerning a Claim and Documenting It with Selective Service

By Reviewed by J. E. McNeil on November 1, 2017

By Curt Torell. Quaker House of Fayetteville, N.C., 2016. 209 pages. $15/paperback. This book is a niche book, but Quaker […]

J. E. McNeil is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and as an attorney a longtime supporter of those who say no to war. She spent 11 years as the executive director of the Center on Conscience & War. She’s trained hundreds of Quaker, Mennonite, Brethren, Unitarian, and other youth in writing a conscientious objector file.

Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries

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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

By Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee on November 1, 2017

By Keeanga‐Yamahtta Taylor. Haymarket Books, 2016. 288 pages. $17.95/paperback; $17.99/eBook. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga‐Yamahtta Taylor places the […]

Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Growing Diverse Leadership and Peace and Social Concerns committees.

Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries

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Hegemony How‐To: A Road Map for Radicals; Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual

By Reviewed by Steve Chase on November 1, 2017

Hegemony How‐To: A Road Map for Radicals. By Jonathan Matthew Smucker. AK Press, 2017. 280 pages. $16.95/paperback; $16.99/eBook. Against Doom: A […]

Steve Chase is a member of Putney (Vt.) Meeting and currently serves as the manager of academic initiatives at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) in Washington, D.C. He is the author of two Pendle Hill pamphlets and a regular contributor to Minds of the Movement, an ICNC blog on the people and power of civil resistance.

Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries, Uncategorized

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