Bahai Community Discovering diversity and spiritual solutions My downstairs neighbors were Baha’is. We talked for three days and then I was one too.
Racial Unity Finding and eliminating prejudices I had no idea of the reality of what it meant to be black in the United States of America.
Bahai Community Learning to pray from African-Americans The Harlem Baha’i teaching institute didn’t do anything until they had properly prayed up the room.
Racial Identity Putting African-Americans in the center We had a race unity workshop where white people surrounded African-Americans and listened to their truth.
Racial Unity Just undo it We got a grant from the Mayor’s Stop the Violence fund to run race unity discussions.
Bahai Community A new Harlem generation I was horrified that so many Baha’is in Harlem were white – but then I saw they were reaching out to their neighborhoods of color.
