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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

By Reviewed by David Etheridge on September 1, 2017

By Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s Press, 2017. 228 pages. $24.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Michael Eric Dyson earned his PhD in 1993, […]

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

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Homegoing: A Novel and The Underground Railroad: A Novel

By Two titles reviewed by Lauren Brownlee on September 1, 2017

Homegoing: A Novel. By Yaa Gyasi. Knopf, 2016. 320 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $16/paperback; $11.99/eBook. The Underground Railroad: A Novel. By Colson […]

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: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2017, September 2017 Books

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Forum May 2017

By Staff on May 1, 2017

Letters from our readers remember Henry Cadbury; a meeting with Joyce Ajlouny, shifting racial labels and accountability, a request for […]

Posted in: Forum, Quaker Summers

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Do not break the hearts of the children who want to be together with their parents

By Sara De La Torre on May 1, 2017

Student Voices: “Consider the importance of family values and the future of the children, and help them grow by educating […]

Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized

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The Courageous Many

By Lucy Duncan on April 1, 2017

Learn the many ways AFSC engages with Friends today.

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.

Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Features

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An interview with Joyce Ajlouny

By Martin Kelley on April 1, 2017

Meet AFSC’s incoming general secretary.

American Friends Service Committee has announced that Joyce Ajlouny will become its next general secretary starting in September 2017. Friends Journal senior editor Martin Kelley caught up with Ajlouny to talk about her work as director of the Ramallah Friends School and her hopes for AFSC.

Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Features

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Peace Works: A Century of Action

By Tony Heriza on April 1, 2017

AFSC’s website Peace Works: Century of Action was created to gather and share stories from the past and present. Here […]

Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Online Features

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Friends, Peace, and Justice in Baltimore

By Kathryn Munnell on April 1, 2017

Weekly vigils against war and for peace find a new focus for Baltimore Friends after the 2015 death of Freddie […]

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

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A Centennial History of the American Friends Service Committee

By Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm on April 1, 2017

By Gregory A. Barnes. Friends Press, 2016. 498 pages. $24.95/paperback. At the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists in 1994, […]

Thomas D. Hamm is professor of history and director of special collections at Earlham College and a member of West Richmond (Ind.) Meeting. He has written extensively on Quaker history since 1800.