On October 29, Friends gathered for One Pamphlet, One Yearly Meeting to read, listen, and reflect together. The conversation brought forward experiences, questions, and perspectives that invited further consideration.
Additional resources are now available for Friends who wish to continue reflecting on these conversations and consider how racism can be addressed within our meetings and communities.
PYM ADDRESSING RACISM COLLABORATIVE
The Collaborative’s webpage includes numerous resources to connect and support Friends and Meetings:
- To learn how Friends are facing the challenge of becoming antiracist.
- To help meetings share their wisdom and worries about antiracism work.
- To support meetings who are moving to become antiracist communities.
Access the Addressing Racism Collaboratives Webpage>>>
PENDLE HILL PAMPHLETS
- #415: Living Our Testimony on Equality: A White Friend’s Experience, Patience Schenck
- #465: Race, Systemic Violence, and Retrospective Justice, Harold D. Weaver, Jr.
- #476: Radical Transformation: Long Overdue for the Religious Society of Friends, Vanessa Julye
- #489: Hypocrisy, Racism, and Self-Interest on the Path to Reparations, Mary Watkins
- #495: Patterns of Racial Wounding and Racial Justice in Quaker Communities, Lauren Brownlee and Zenaida Peterson
A SELECTION OF QUAKER BOOKS
- Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights, Edited by Harold D. Weaver Jr., Paul Kriese, and Steven W. Angell.
- Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice, Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye.
- Fit for Freedom Study Guide.
QUAKER SPEAK VIDEOS
- Quakers, Racism, and the Beloved Community, Vanessa Julye
- How Quaker Testimonies Can Combat White Supremacism, Lauren Brownlee
- Living up to Our Radical Past, Daquanna Harrison
- Are Quaker Meetings Safe for Black People?, Billie Wade
Access Additional Quaker Speak Videos>>>
ORGANIZATIONS
- Friends General Conference, Ministry on Racism
- The Black Quaker Project
- Quaker Coalition for Uprooting Racism
- QCUR is a coalition of six Quaker organizations and Friends who are working together to accelerate the movement for, and capacity to create, racial justice among (and beyond) Friends through the creation of the Quakers Uprooting Racism community of practice program—racial justice changemakers learning and experimenting with actions together.
- The organizations are American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Friends Council on Education (FCE), Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), Friends General Conference (FGC), Pendle Hill, and Quaker Voluntary Service (QVS).
- QCUR will run a 9-month cohort for practitioners in 2027-2028. Sign up online to get notifications when online applications open.
