Black History Month Quaker Events

The BlackQuaker Project brings exciting news of two unique, online events we will be offering during this 2024 Black History Month.  

Monday, 5 February – “Truth and Justice: The BlackQuaker Project Challenges Quakerism in the 21st Century,” a Pendle Hill First-Monday Lecture

7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST (Zoom Webinar)

Join us for a radical Pendle Hill presentation in which special guest Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge joins Dr. Harold D. Weaver Jr. and the BlackQuaker Project team. Together they will present a new model for healing historical injustice with Retrospective Justice and showcase how our ministry, along with other Friends of Color around the world, are challenging Quakerism in the 21st century with new insights and new narratives. Register here to attend.

Saturday, 24 February – “The Bayard Rustin Legacy Forum” 

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST (Zoom Webinar)

The BlackQuaker Project and Swarthmore College’s Department of Peace and Conflict Studies present “The Bayard Rustin Legacy Forum,” a virtual symposium sponsored by the American American Friends Service Committee, hosted by Dr. Harold D. Weaver Jr., and moderated by Palestinian-American Quaker scholar-activist Dr. Sa’ed Atshan. They will be joined by Haverford College Africana and Religious Studies scholar, Dr. terrence wiley, and Friends Council on National Legislation administrator, Lauren Brownlee, for a series of presentations on the remarkable legacy of Friend Rustin, followed by an audience Q & A. Our distinguished panel will engage with the 2023 biopic Rustin, which we recommend viewing prior to this one-time event. Register here to attend.