Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford
Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford was born on April 23, 1877, in Bridgetown, Barbados, to Edward Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Augustine Ford. He claimed that his...
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Rufus Jones
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Rufus Jones was a highly influential American Quaker. He was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee and an instigator of the...
Howard Thurman
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Howard Thurman, in full Howard Washington Thurman, (born Nov. 18, 1899, Daytona Beach, Fla., U.S.—died April 10, 1981, San Francisco, Calif.), American Baptist preacher and...
Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum
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Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum was eleven years old and a Brookline resident when someone in a supermarket handed her a brochure about Shabbat. A good student...
Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams
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Called “the most intriguing African-American Buddhist” by Library Journal, Rev. angel Kyodo Williams Sensei, is an author, maverick spiritual teacher, master trainer, and founder of...
John Berry Meachum
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John Berry Meachum was born into slavery in Goochland County, Virginia. His master took him to North Carolina and then Kentucky. Meachum learned several trades,...
Benjamin Mays
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Perhaps best known as the longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Benjamin Mays was a distinguished African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist....
Mormons confront a history of Church racism
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On June 1, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – or the Mormons – will celebrate the 40th anniversary of what they believe...
Brigham Young: We Must Believe in Slavery
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Speech by Governor Brigham Young in Joint Session of the Legislature Giving Counsel on a Bill in Relation to African Slavery Salt Lake City, Friday,...
Bishop Christopher Rush
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Christopher Rush, second superintendent (a title later changed to the bishop) of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and a full-blooded African, was born a...