Bahai Community A brilliant stroke of parenting The Baha’is in my town collaborated on Martin Luther King Day, they put on a Black History Month program. They were impressive.
Bahai Religion History The sad story of Alonzo Twine South Carolina’s hospital for the insane was the kind of place where, if you weren’t insane already, it would do you in.
Bahai Community Abdu’l-Baha and Louis Gregory Louis Gregory, an African-American lawyer, tried to slip out the back door as a gathering of white guests arrived to see Abdu’l-Baha.
Bahai Community A handful, a roomful and then a great gathering In the 1920s and later, had black Southerners been given the chance they would have responded to the Baha’i Faith in large numbers.
Bahai Community Leaving the comfort zone The size of the American Baha'i community grew faster than anybody could predict.
Bahai Religion History Mr Gregory’s legacy My grandmother was a mother of her church – and she was very happy for me to investigate the Baha’i faith.
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 American Baha’is & heavenly training Abdu’l-Baha came to the United States at the turn of the 20th century – like a first responder.
Bahai Community The behaviors needed for change The Baha’i writings defined “implicit bias” 70 years before Harvard came up with the idea.
Bahai Religion From South Carolina to Michigan My church was filled with Civil Rights protestors – one of them said I should explore the Baha’i faith.
Bahai Community Growing up as a Civil Rights warrior The Baha’i community taught racial unity and they also lived it – which was the goal of the Civil Rights movement.
Bahai Religion Applying Baha’i ideas to scholarship & academia White students felt guilty and didn’t know what to do, and students of color would feel extremely angry.
