Racial Identity Where are African-Americans going? The Baha’i writings compare us to the “pupil of the eye” – I find it amazing to share that with young people who are in despair.
Racial Identity Nashville via Iran, Palestine and Black Wall Street Maya Mansour: They built a highway straight through my mom’s thriving black neighbourhood in the Midwest.
Racial Identity There is something exceptional about black people Maya Mansour: The Baha'i writings compare black people to the “pupil of the eye”.
Racial Identity Identifying with the black and immigrant experiences in America Maya Mansour: People get thrown when I say I am Persian because they don’t expect Persian people to be black.
Segregation in America A domestic, a laundryman & a professor My parents sent me to an integrated school but I was too mischievous – so I returned to an all-black community.
Bahai Religion Like a thief in the night I was a fundamentalist black Baptist who believed in the return of Christ – but the Baha’i teachings blew my mind.
Bahai Community Leaving home If you’ve been in a black church you know how dynamic it is – leaving it for an inter-racial community was traumatic.
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.
Racial Identity Hollow options in the 1960s We had friends who were Black Panthers – there was a lot of fronting with bullets and guns.
Racial Identity Black is beautiful here was a deeply entrenched self-hate among dark-skinned African-Americans – it dated back to slavery.
Bahai Community Abdu’l-Baha in America The head of the Baha’i faith visited the United States in 1912 and described blacks and whites as sapphires and pearls.
