Constructive resilience, especially as it applies to racial justice, was a strong thread through many presentations at the 2020 online conference of the Association for Baha’i Studies. Here are a few (more are to be added soon): Keynote presentation: The New Black Power: Constructive Resilience and the Efforts of African American Baha’is, July 25 Derik […]
Illumine America is a podcast created by the U.S. Baha’i Office of Public Affairs. It explores some of the major issues facing American society, such as economic inequality, racial justice and race unity, the sustainable development of our planet, and more. Just as much as we’re troubled by the challenges inherent to these issues, we’re […]
Illumine America is a podcast created by the U.S. Baha’i Office of Public Affairs. It explores some of the major issues facing American society, such as economic inequality, racial justice and race unity, the sustainable development of our planet, and more. Just as much as we’re troubled by the challenges inherent to these issues, we’re also […]
Illumine America is a podcast created by the U.S. Baha’i Office of Public Affairs. It explores some of the major issues facing American society, such as economic inequality, racial justice and race unity, the sustainable development of our planet, and more. Just as much as we’re troubled by the challenges inherent to these issues, we’re also […]
When Americans arose this spring to demand racial justice, Laura Hampton knew she “couldn’t wait any longer” to bring people in her neighborhood together. Hampton, a Baha’i in the Hixson section of Chattanooga, Tennessee, “put on my mask and started walking around my neighborhood knocking on doors and hand delivering invitations to a devotional gathering […]
Story and photos by Kari Carlson Author’s note: I’m originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, just across the Mississippi River from where George Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic brought me back to town in mid-March, after 24 years away. I was here “just in case anything happened” to my family during […]
Racism is the most challenging issue confronting America. A nation whose ancestry includes every people on earth, whose motto is E pluribus unum, whose ideals of freedom under law have inspired millions throughout the world, cannot continue to harbor prejudice against any racial or ethnic group without betraying itself. Racism is an affront to […]
The delay is disappointing, but the vision remains strong. The Children’s Theater Company of New York is keeping alive the plans for a multi-city tour of Henry Box Brown and Glimmerings of Hope, musical stage productions whose development has been fostered by Louhelen Baha’i School in Davison, Michigan. Importantly, schools and organizations in several tour […]
Gathering and acts of service celebrate the spiritual station and mission of black people More than 300 people met in Nashville, Tennessee, over Thanksgiving weekend with two goals: to delve into Baha’i writings related to the station of black people as “pupils of the eye” from which all vision emanates, and to explore how African […]
Amid the disheartening signs of a nation’s spiritual apathy and a rise in anti-black sentiment, a conference held over Thanksgiving weekend spotlighted the special role Baha’u’llah, prophet-founder of the Baha’i Faith, gave people of African descent in advancing civilization. About 300 participants, primarily African-American Baha’is, met in Nashville, Tennessee, for the ARISE Pupil of the […]
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