Bahai Community Building Love and Faith Community Cafe A white woman complained to me about the African-American kids we’d invited to have free ice cream.
Bahai Community Building Sincere friendships and boots on the ground We must have sincere friendships if we want to include everyone in our community.
Bahai Community Embracing diversity to overcome residential segregation Anthony Vance: 7 out of 10 white Americans have no close black friends, and 4 out of 10 African-Americans have no close white friends.
Bahai Community A spiritual assembly Michael Penn: I was moved by the sweetness, the humility, the frankness and the love that they had for me.
Bahai Community Building Creating the world – or destroying it Michael Penn: Embodying spiritual qualities is part of the process of creating racial unity.
Bahai Community Building Making communities better Michael Penn: The junior youth said they were concerned about the way their mothers were being treated.
Bahai Community Building Learning to read Michael Penn: If we’re going to overcome prejudice, we have to become the kinds of people who are prejudice-free.
Bahai Community Building Believing in race unity demands work Today’s world influences our thinking in terms of race and class – even if we already believe in unity in diversity.
Bahai Community Standing up for the wellbeing of all Baha’is are supposed to be champions of justice – to stand up for humanitarian issues.
Bahai Community A devotional culture African-Americans know how to come together to pray – they can offer this to Baha’i communities.
Bahai Community Building Meaningful conversations that address racism Baha’i activities in gentrifying Brooklyn help us to build friendships with people from different backgrounds.
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.
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.
Bahai Community Building Teaching kids to serve their communities Tavoria Kellam: People I’d have never imagined are engaged in doing the work of addressing racism in America.
Bahai Community Creating the Black Men’s Gathering I didn’t see enough African-American men active in the Baha’i community and I began to ask why.
Racial Identity Homelands of the ancestors People of African descent were asked to be a source of encouragement to Baha’i communities in Africa – so we went.
Bahai Community A Liberian reunion in Ghana We walked in and there was an uproar at the back – a group of young men said “We know him!”
Bahai Community Building Overcoming injustice through service not contention The Baha’i writings forbid conflict – we must oppose oppression by falling in love with people of other backgrounds.
Bahai Community Unity in diversity Nature understands it – there’s so much diversity just in plant life but it all works together.
Bahai Community Building A realization at Wounded Knee Race unity dances weren’t enough – I saw that we have to help communities deal with the problems they’re facing.
Bahai Community Building Maywood, near Chicago Four young people recently took their lives in our community – these are spiritual problems that need spiritual solutions.
Racism in America Racism and how to overcome it I’ve gone through hardships but I wouldn’t do it any other way – people like to feel that you’re passionate.
Bahai Community Growing up as a white Baha'i in a segregated world Ken Bowers: Growing up, everybody in our Baha’i community, black and white, was my family.
Bahai Community Building Building community to achieve race unity Ken Bowers: We're challenged to think consciously about the implications of justice and of building a united community.
