Harambee (Let’s Come Together)

This historic gathering invites Black Quakers, our families, and our friends to celebrate our collective resilience.

Together, we will reflect on the past, present, and future of Black Quaker life through worship, fellowship, remembrance, and community.

The gathering will also celebrate the reopening of a recently renovated, 250-year-old Quaker meetinghouse in Philadelphia. The meetinghouse is now home to Unity Friends Meeting, a newly reorganized Pan-African Quaker meeting, and the Ujima Friends Peace Center, which has served as a Quaker witness in North Philadelphia for the past ten years.

As we gather on August 28th through the 30th, 2026, we will explore the history of this site which was once a location of the Underground Railroad and a burial ground for formerly enslaved people. We plan to worship, fellowship and share with each other the stories of our journeys as Friends of African descent, journeys that brought us ‘thus far by faith” to this historic moment. We hope to leave this time together, not only memories of where we have been, but also with a better understanding of where we need to go, together.

Learn more at https://www.unitymeeting.org/harambee