A Shared Humanity between African Americans and Indigenous Peoples with Mr. Michael Orona Saturday, November 4 @ 11 am CST We would like to invite you to the next talk in our series Bahá’í Faith Modern Perspectives! This is a weekly virtual talk series every Saturday at 12:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Each week, we […]
Tell Them, We Are Rising: Robert Turner, the First African American Bahá’í January 21st, 11:00 a.m. CST We would like to invite you to the next talk in our series Bahá’í Faith Modern Perspectives! This is a weekly virtual talk series every Saturday at 12:00pm Eastern Standard Time (EST). Each week, we have a speaker from the […]
Editor’s note: The historical inquiry into African Americans in the early U.S. Baha’i community is still unfolding. Here is a profile of Olive Jackson, who very well may be the first African American woman to embrace the Faith. In the early summer of 2020, people around the world grappled with the social unrest and distress […]
By Francisco Rendon It was more than just a get-together, but what a get-together it was. About 100 African-American Baha’is spent Aug. 7 praying together, celebrating their heritage and destiny, and dining on barbecue and fried fish at a park in Centralia, Washington. Coming largely from Washington and Oregon, many hadn’t met each other in […]
Saturday, February 1, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm The concert “And Still We Rise: African American Music through the Ages” will feature the Baha’i House of Worship Choir, led by Van Gilmer, and the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Philip Simmons. The program includes a multi-cultural repertoire that reflects the Baha’i belief in the unity of humanity. Gilmer, […]
Pocahontas Pope memorialized in graveside service She was the first African American Baha’i in Washington, DC. Now, 112 years later, Pocahontas Pope’s grave has a fitting marker. About 90 people gathered for the unveiling May 19 in a graveside ceremony at the National Harmony Memorial Park in Hyattsville, Maryland. Pope’s remains had been transferred there […]
EDITORS’ NOTE: Though this story reflects community life as it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, it is still being shared as an example of working creatively to apply the Baha’i teachings for people’s benefit. When residents of a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, neighborhood decided Feb. 14 that their brand-new Baha’i-initiated devotional gathering should be held weekly […]
By Lawrence E. Dotson It is not often that the words “celebration” and “cemetery” are linked together, but it was indeed a celebration that brought 400 people to the Inglewood Cemetery on a bright September Sunday afternoon. People gathered at the recently beautified gravesite of Thornton Chase, in Inglewood, California, on September 24 to commemorate […]
By James Humphrey It was a potent exchange of ideas and energy in itself, to be sure. But the 2023 Race Amity Conference, Nov. 9–11 in Atlanta, represented something larger as well. It was a surface current in a deep movement to build a framework to spark and strengthen friendships and partnerships. Its long-term vision […]
Enthusiasm glowed at the 47th conference of the Association for Baha’i Studies—North America (ABS), Aug. 4–6, 2023, in Atlanta. It was the association’s first in-person conference in four years, since before the COVID-19 pandemic, and people all around were renewing connections and making new friends throughout the weekend. The weekend conference attracted about 1,900 people […]
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