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Happy 123rd Birthday, Paul Robeson! Homage to a Beleaguered Leader
(9 April 1898 - 23 January 1976) Humanist, Pan-Africanist, Socialist, Quaker Descendant, Celebrated Singer, Actor, Scholar, Recording...
Timothy Vaughn
Apr 8, 20214 min read
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Happy Birthday, Bayard Rustin!
Happy Birthday, Bayard Rustin! Courageous Quaker Leader, Writer, Singer, Social Critic, Human Rights Movement Organizer 17 Mar 1912 - 24...
Timothy Vaughn
Mar 17, 20214 min read
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Women’s History Month & Helen Morgan Brooks!
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH A Happy Birthday Commemorating the Life of Helen Morgan Brooks! Poet, Educator, and influential member of Quaker...
Timothy Vaughn
Mar 4, 20214 min read
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BlackQuaker Lives Matter!
Celebrating Black History Month: Selected Publications of the BlackQuaker Project To learn more about Quakers of Color worldwide as we...
Timothy Vaughn
Feb 25, 20211 min read
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New Interviewee in the Quakers of Color International Archive: Happy Birthday, Maurice Eldridge!
This profile of Friend Maurice is the first of several that we wish to run on the birthdays of living Friends in our Quakers of Color...
Timothy Vaughn
Feb 17, 20212 min read
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Happy Birthday, Langston Hughes!
Humanistic Poet, Novelist, Memoirist, Playwright, Harlem Renaissance Leader 1 February 1902 - 22 May 1967 The BlackQuaker Project...
Timothy Vaughn
Feb 1, 20212 min read
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Timothy Vaughn
Jan 15, 20210 min read
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Happy Birthday, Jean Toomer!
Quaker Poet, Novelist, Essayist, Permanent Seeker, Harlem Renaissance Pioneer (Cane -1923) (26 December 1894 - 30 March 1967) Amidst the...
Timothy Vaughn
Dec 26, 20201 min read
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Happy Birthday, Howard Thurman!
Happy Birthday, Howard Thurman! Prolific Author, Civil Rights Mentor, Theologian, and Inspiring Preacher and Educator. (18 November 1899...
Timothy Vaughn
Nov 17, 20202 min read
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Timothy Vaughn
Nov 9, 20200 min read
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Health Structural Violence against Black and Brown Bodies
Dear Friends, friends of Friends, and others, Today we’re sharing with you another core concept from our new Pendle Hill pamphlet, Race,...
Timothy Vaughn
Oct 21, 20201 min read
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Happy Birthday, Mahala Ashley Dickerson!
Happy Birthday, Mahala Ashley Dickerson! Quaker Pioneer, Civil and Human Rights Lawyer, Philanthropist, Homesteader. (12 October 1912 -...
Timothy Vaughn
Oct 12, 20202 min read
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VOTER SUPPRESSION: POLITICAL STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
Dear Friends, friends of Friends, and others, Today we are sharing with you another core concept from our new Pendle Hill pamphlet,...
The Black Quaker Project
Oct 7, 20201 min read
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Timothy Vaughn
Oct 3, 20200 min read
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Redefining Race & Racism in Our New Pamphlet:
Dear Friends, friends of Friends, and others, We are excited to share with you another core concept from our forthcoming Pendle Hill...
The Black Quaker Project
Sep 30, 20202 min read
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Educational Structural Violence:
School-to-prison pipeline, over-punishment of Black students, and textbooks and curricula filled with errors of commission and omission....
The Black Quaker Project
Sep 23, 20202 min read
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Upcoming Pendle Hill Pamphlet
Dear Friends, friends of Friends, and others, We are extremely excited to announce our forthcoming Pendle Hill pamphlet, “Race, Systemic...
The Black Quaker Project
Sep 16, 20202 min read
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Happy Birthday, Sarah Mapps Douglass (9 September 1806) and Vera Green (6 September 1928)!
Trailblazing African American Women Quaker Scholar-Activists. This week the BlackQuaker Project celebrates the lives of two highly...
Timothy Vaughn
Sep 7, 20202 min read
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Happy Belated Birthday Charles Nichols!
Happy Birthday, Dr. Charles H. Nichols! Pioneering African American Quaker Scholar on the Slave Narrative (6 July 1919 - 18 January 2007)...
Timothy Vaughn
Jul 8, 20202 min read
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Happy Birthday Ira Reid!
Read more in an excerpt from Black Fire!
Timothy Vaughn
Jul 2, 20202 min read
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