Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights
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June 1 - 3, 2012 Friday through Sunday (2 nights)
$220-380
based on accommodations choice
Guest information
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About the accommodations
Prices for overnight programs include room, board, and tuition.
Private room
These quiet, single rooms are perfect for those who want a real retreat, and are simply decorated with a twin bed and desk.
Shared room
For those who elect to share a room with a guest or another participant, these offer comfort at a modest price.
Commute
Commuter rates include lunch and dinner during the program.
Private rooms are allotted on a first-come, first-served basis, with consideration given to those with special needs.
Over the past 300 years, African American Quakers have made major contributions to our society. Join two Quakers passionate about shedding more light on the rich legacy of such eminent Black Friends (and friends of Friends) as philanthropist-sea captain Paul Cuffe, leader of a Back-to-Africa movement in the 18th century; pioneering Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer; spiritual leader Howard Thurman; lawyer-activist Mahala Ashley Dickerson; and human rights leaders Bill Sutherland and Bayard Rustin. What do these seminal thinkers, as well as other African American Quakers, have to say to us today as activists, Friends, and searching human beings?
$380/private room; $300/shared room; $220/commuter.
Leader(s)
Harold (Hal) Weaver, fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, was the founding chairperson of the Africana Studies Department at Rutgers University. Hal's joyful outreach ministry at Wellesley Friends Meeting (MA), the BlackQuaker Project, aims at celebrating the lives and contributions of Black Quakers worldwide. He is the initiating editor of Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights, published in 2011 by the Quaker Press of FGC.
Stephen W. Angell is the Leatherrock Professor of Quaker Studies at the Earlham School of Religion. A past chair of the Afro-American Religious History Group of the American Academy of Religion, he has published widely on African American religion. He is a co-editor of Black Fire.