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  • Nov 26 08

    Gwen Clayborne, a Baha'i from Glencoe, Ill., was featured recently on the Chicago-based public television program, "30 Good Minutes."

  • Sep 26 08

    Bob Rosenfeld’s idea of an ideal world isn’t the traditional melting pot. Rather, it’s a mosaic, allowing people to retain what makes them unique while being part of a greater whole.

  • Jun 20 08

    When it comes to race, Bahá'ís have their work cut out for them -- working to eliminate what is described by the National Spiritual Assembly in its 1991 statement on the topic as “the most challenging issue confronting America.”

  • Mar 07 08

    Baha'i scientist Craig Loehle explains the reasons and classifications of race and prejudice and provides a practical and scientific grounding for the Baha'i perspective on the diversity in the human family.  An excellent melding of scientific and spiritual perspectives on this matter (12 minutes). Download

  • Feb 06 08

    Louis Gregory reached more people than any other advocate of racial harmony in the first half of the 20th century, says Gayle Morrison, a Baha'i who has researched the life and contributions of Mr. Gregory, an early U.S. Baha'i.

  • Jan 17 08

    If you’re a member of a minority, and you’re not involved in decision-making at an administrative level, then society is still far from realizing the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., says Phillipe Copeland, a Baha'i in Boston who examines social issues from an African-American perspective on his blog, Baha'i Thought.

  • Jul 25 07

    If you don't figure out your own identity, "society will happily tell you," says Marianne Smith Geula, a Chicago Baha'i. What society told her in the 1970s was that she was a young, black woman. Or a young, biracial woman, if the person doing the telling was more perceptive.

  • Jun 01 07

    Baha'u'llah, Founder of the Baha'i Faith, implored people to "Close your eyes to racial differences and welcome all with the light of oneness."

  • Apr 04 07

    Myron Wilson joined the Air Force to fight the Good War. He joined the Baha'i Faith to fight, and heal from, the racism he experienced as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first group of African-American fighter pilots in the United States and the only group of African-American fighter pilots in World War II.

  • Apr 02 07

    Dr. Dempsey Morgan, 87, a Baha'i in Bristol, Va., was among the 300 Tuskegee Airmen who were present Thursday, March, 29, to receive a replica of the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor from President George Bush at the Capitol Rotunda. (See related article from USA TODAY).

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