The BlackQuaker Project (1) celebrates the lives and contributions of Quakers of Color worldwide and (2) documents and addresses their concerns. It is an outreach and inreach ministry of Wellesley Friends Meeting, guided by the Quaker testimonies of Truth, Peace, Equality, Justice, and Community. The BlackQuaker Project Hal Weaver lectures on Paul Robeson, whose Quaker ancestors date back more than 300 years. Nordic Art School | Kokkola, Finland September 2008 WHO WE ARE Meet our team! QUAKERS OF COLOR SPEAK Learn about the Quakers of Color International Archive! JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER Join our mailing list to receive monthly e-newsletters! SOCIAL MEDIA Follow our work on Facebook and Instagram!

Quakers of Color International Archives This multi-media study-and-research collection is intended as the first centralized, comprehensive collection of videos, writings, films, and audio resources by and about Quakers of Color worldwide. We are beginning with a pilot project, interviewing 6-8 outstanding Quakers of Color in the spring and summer of 2019 in the USA, Africa, and the Middle East. Our first scheduled interview, with New England equal rights activist Greg Williams, ailing racial-equality activist in the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, ended with Greg’s death on 14 February 2019. Other interview priorities include Palestinian Quaker leader Jean Zaru, who is now in the USA for medical treatment; Kenyan theologian Esther Mombo; as well as other activist African American Friends from New England and other parts of the USA, including Caroline Jordan, James Varner, Hal Weaver, Paula Rhodes of Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting, and Dwight Wilson. These archives will be a formal expansion of The BlackQuaker Project’s current informal collection, begun with the accumulation of written documents and audio-visual materials for the preparation of our pioneering publication, Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights (2011), edited by Harold D. Weaver, Jr., Paul Kriese and Stephen Angell, with the assistance of Anne Steere Nash and the Preface by Emma Lapsansky-Werner. The Quakers of Color International Archives (QCIA) will be accessible to scholars, educators, and students who wish a better understanding of the lives, achievements, and contributions of Quakers of Color to the Society of Friends and to the broader community. The Archives will be available to the public and to scholars in one or more of the major library archives—yet to be determined—housing significant Black-Quaker materials or Africana materials: Quaker Archives and Special Collections of the Haverford College Library, the Du Bois Library at UMass/Amherst (which already houses the Archives of the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends), and, perhaps, the Arturo Schomburg Center for Black Culture of the New York Public Library, where Hal’s aunt by marriage, Catherine A. Latimer, was the initiator. Expertise in the selection and preservation processes, to complement the more than 50 years of experience of the Project director in Black history and culture, is already being utilized from the following experts in bibliography, preservation, Africana Studies, Quakerism, and Black Quaker Studies: Robert Cox, Director of Special Collections, UMass/Amherst Library and Overseer, NEYM Archives, UMass/Amherst Library Emma Lapsansky, Prof. of History and Curator of the Quaker Collection, Emerita, Haverford College Mary Craudereuff, Current Curator of the Quaker Collection, Haverford College Library Robert Cox Emma Lapsansky Mary Craudereuff View the Quakers of Color International Archives

Preston, UK | October 2017 In Preston, at the University of Central Lancashire, where Hal participated in a conference, “The Red and the Black: the Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic, ” commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and its profound impact on Africans in Africa and the Diaspora. He presented a promo of an important documentary film by Yelena Deminovsky, BLACK RUSSIANS: THE RED EXPERIENCE, now in post-production, on the experiences of African Americans who left a violent, lynch-ridden USA in search of a dream of equality in the new Soviet Union. He also presented a paper, using the title of his book-in-process, “Mental Decolonization and the Cold War: African Student Elites in the USSR in the Khrushchev Era.”

Dr. Harold (Hal) Weaver Dr. Harold (Hal) D. Weaver is the Founder and Director of the BlackQuaker Project (BQP). Hal was introduced to the Religious Society of Friends and Quakerism at Westtown School and Haverford College, which has impacted his entire life. As a result of his Quaker education, Hal became a conscientious objector while a draftee in the US Army in 1958. He combined his faith and political activism into the BQP, through which Hal has produced several publications important to Quakers: the Beacon Hill Friends House pamphlet of Hal’s 2008 Weed Lecture, “Facing Unbearable Truths,”; Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights (2011) through FGC Press; and his most recent publication, the Pendle Hill pamphlet, Race, Systemic Violence, and Retrospective Justice: An African American Quaker Scholar-Activist Challenges Conventional Narratives , in Oct. 2020. Hal is active locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally among Quakers and has served in governance roles with the Quaker United Nations Office, the American Friends Service Committee, Pendle Hill, Cambridge Friends School, and the Friends World Committee for Consultation. He is also an Associate at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. A pioneer in Africana studies, Hal founded and chaired the Africana Studies Department at Rutgers, through which he was able to focus attention on the neglected legacy of the great Rutgers Alumnus, actor, singer, and political activist, Paul Robeson. For the past 50 years, Hal has worked to restore Robeson’s legacy to its rightful place in history, through publications, lectures, presentations, films, and symposiums. In learning about Paul Robeson’s legacy, Hal realized the importance of using film to teach about Robeson’s life as well as how African Americans have been represented in film. Through the BlackFilm Project, Hal screened many of Robeson’s feature films throughout the world, as well as other films created by or about Black people. In 2022, Hal was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Alumni Award from Haverford College, honoring the work of the BQP. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with his life partner, Anne Steere Nash, and attends Wellesley Friends Meeting.

CONTACT Oaxaca Quaker Friends Wellesley Friends Meeting has established a fund to support the work of The BlackQuaker Project. Funds are needed for clerical and research assistance; office materials and procedures, including printing, faxing, telephoning; transportation for presentations and research; promoting; and collecting materials from libraries, private collections, and archives. Please mail contributions to: Treasurer Wellesley Friends Meeting 26 Benvenue Street Wellesley, MA 02482 Please write "For The BlackQuaker Project Fund" on your check. For additional information about this fund, please contact Hal Weaver (weaverhal@yahoo.com ) For more information about The BlackQuaker Project, please contact Hal Weaver: weaverhal@yahoo.com Hal Weaver hosts the initial meeting of Oaxaca Quaker Friends worship group February 18, 2012 Oaxaca Quaker Friends hold Meeting for Worship on Saturdays at 10am. Los amigos cuáqueros de Oaxaca realizan una reunión no programado para rendir culto los sábados a las 10am. Protección a la Joven ('La Protec') Tinoco y Palacios 217 Contact us at: quakersinoaxaca@gmail.com

2022 Haverford College Alumni Award Ceremony Dr. Harold D. Weaver's acceptance speech (begins at 18:45) Read more about the full 2022 Haverford College Alumni Weekend on the Haverford Blog below:

Nordic Art School | Kokkola, Finland | September 2008 In September 2008, Hal lectured in Kokkola as a guest at the Nordic Art School. In addition to teaching, Dr. Weaver held an open lecture on African-American film for the public.

RELATED PROJECTS The China-Africa-Russia Project This project studies and facilitates training and education programs between African countries on the one hand and China, Russia, and USA on the other hand. The BlackFilm Project The BlackFilm Project is an independent, transnational, non-profit cultural and educational organization dedicated to using film and other visual media and moving images to foster understanding, respect, and appreciation of the people, cultures, and societies of Africa and the African Diaspora, past and present. To carry our mission, we are committed to developing and implementing programs and festivals at universities, schools, museums, libraries, and other non-theatrical venues in the Americas, in Europe, in Asia, and in Africa. We are interested in improving the quality of Film, African American, African-Diasporic, Transnational, and Educational Studies throughout the world, both for the general public and for specialized, university audiences. Worldwide Collaborators and Clients as Lecturer, Programmer, Curator, and Consultant Harvard University Yale University Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Madison Ohio State University University of Redlands, CA College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME Weber State University, Utah University of Chicago University of Washington, Seattle University of Pennsylvania Temple University Howard University Virginia Union University Clarke-Atlanta University Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA Denver International Film Festival University of Colorado - Denver University of Denver DePaw Univeristy Princeton University Haverford College, PA Rutgers University, New Brunswick Rutgers University, Newark Rutgers University, Camden Goddard College, VT Talladeega College, AL Vorhees College, SC Harvard Film Archive Bowdoin College, ME Boston University Vermont International Film Festival New Orleans International Film Festival Black Film Festival, Newark, NJ USA Beijing Film Academy Beijing University Zhejiang Radio and TV University Sichuan University Guangzhou Foreign Studies University National Chiao Tung University (National Jiao Tong University), Taiwan Xi-an Quijiang Film and TV Investment (Group) Ltd., Xian American Studies Association annual meetings, Guangzhou and Kunming Beijing USA College of English, "Beijing USA Film Festival" Beijing Foreign Languages and Culture University Beijing Foreign Studies University Zhejiang Normal University GREATER CHINA United Nations, New York UNESCO, Paris University of Liverpool, UK University of Muenster, Germany University of Paris VIII-Vicennes/St. Denis, France McGill University, Canada Amiens International Film Festival, France Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes, France Zanzibar International Film Festival, Tanzania FESPACO (Pan-African Film Festival), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Carthage International Film Festival, Tunisia African Film Festival, Montreal, Canada Laval University, Quebec City, Canada Commenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia University of Montreal, Canada University of Toronto, Canada McMasters University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada TADIA International Conference on the African Presence in Asia, Goa, India University of Dakar, Senegal Sir Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Dapper Museum, Paris Afro-Caribbean Festival, Veracruz, Mexico African Film Festival, Carlow, Ireland Nordic Art School, Kokolo, Finland Polytechnic University, Finland European Committee on African American Research (CAAR), UK and Germany Quai Branly Museum, Paris Various universities in Turkey, Germany University of Innsbruck, Austria European American Studies Association, University of Graz, Austria Festival Afro-Caribeno, Veracruz, Mexico CIDOC (Ivan Illich), Cuernavaca. Mexico 50th Anniversary Conference, First World Festival of Black Arts, Dakar, Senegal INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND EUROPE, AFRICA, ASIA, and THE AMERICAS: Paul Robeson House Story Paul Robeson House Story - Dr. Harold Weaver 00:00 / 00:00

Istanbul | November 2017 Hal went on to eye-opening Istanbul for lectures on “Black Fire: An African American Scholar-Activist in a White-Supremacist Society,” part of a popular series of English-language “Farabi Talks” at Medipol University, and, later, “Ousmane Sembene and the African Cinema of Contestation” at the Istanbul Design Center, a specialized institute in the arts where important political events had taken place. Of course, the people, the architecture, and the preservation of history were as beautiful as imagined before arriving. What was surprising was the keen interest in his topics, allowing him to engage with Turkish scholars, for example, who had written Masters theses in African and African American Studies on author James Baldwin and on African author-cineaste, Ousmane Sembene. While there is no organized academic program in African or African American Studies in Turkey, it seems that there is expanding interest in that field of academic study. Hal continues to mentor a couple of Ph.D. candidates in African and African American Studies. It appears that this will not be his last sojourn there. Also, surprising to Hal were the political and ideological tensions in Turkey between those who wish to continue close relations and identification with the West, including Turkey’s current membership in NATO, and those wishing closer ties with the East, including the Islamic world, Russia, and the former Soviet republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus Mountains. The decolonization movement seems very much alive. It is difficult to predict what steps the passion for change will take. It is even more difficult to predict what future Turkish-American relations will be like. "A Stance Against Colonialism: African Cinema" at the Istanbul Design Center 4 November 2017 Hal and former Turkish President Abdullah Gül in 2017 Hal and former Turkish President Abdullah Gül in 2017 Hal and former Turkish President Abdullah Gül in 2017 Hal and former Turkish President Abdullah Gül in 2017 1/5

Haverford Alumni Award | May 2022 New England Yearly Meeting | August 2020 Judith Weller Harvey Quaker Scholar at Guilford College | October 2019 Workshop/Roundtable Discussion at New England Yearly Meeting | August 2018 Moscow | October 2017 Havana, Cuba | March 2017 Paris | Musee Quai Branly | Spring 2016 Jordan Center at NYU | November 2020 Wellesley Friends Meeting | July 2020 Pendle Hill Quaker Center | May 2018 Istanbul | November 2017 Preston, UK | October 2017 United Nations | September 2014 Finland | September 2008

Charts on Structural Violence Jean Zaru's Chart on Forms of Violence Against Palestinians Occupied with Nonviolence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks by Jean Zaru (2008) Possible Responses Forms of Violence Build multiple nonviolent strategies for resistance and confidence building (e.g., Witness for Peace, international solidarity movements, and international protection forces) Expose and delegitimize the violence of the powerful and the state Advocate ban on arms sales and production Advocate human rights and international law Economic boycott Arms embargo Direct Violence Killing (e.g. targeting civilians, political assassinations) Torture Domestic violence Closure, siege Use of civilians as human shields Imprisonment without charge or trial Expulsions House demolitions Advocate economic rights, water rights, land rights, and ecological sustainability Create jobs Advocate fair trade Advocate right sharing of resources Economic Structural Violence Restrictions by Israel (e.g., road blocks, closure, control of roads, house curfew) Unemployment and impoverishment Economic marginalization and exclusion Exploitation of water, land, people’s work Destruction of civil society and infrastructure No protection Advocate political rights according to international law and UN resolutions Advocate human, water, and land rights Advocate for self-determination Political Structural Violence Military occupation Settlements Denial of self-determination, sovereignty, right of return Closures Siege Encagement Fragmentation Media and education strategies building on authentic witness Dialogue Encounter Participation in decision making Learn about Palestinian history and heritage Cultural Structural Violence Stereotyping of Palestinians, Arabs, women in the media, education, language Anti-Arabism Discrimination of women Imposition of other cultures and their value systems (e.g., patriarchal culture, Western culture) Authoritarianism and glorification of militarism/the violence of the state and direct violence Destruction/shelling of cultural heritage sites, both archeological and architectural Expose the political chauvinism of fundamentalist movements and their stand against women, as well as their religious and political exclusivity Contextual and liberation theology based on nonviolence Work for ecumenism and unity Disassociate ourselves from fundamentalisms Education on Islam (e.g., among Christians) Alternative pilgrimages Religious Structural Violence Language (chosenness) Disunity among the churches Christian Zionism Fundamentalisms Demonization of Islam Negation of Arab and Middle Eastern Christians (e.g., pilgrimages without contact with local Christians, missionary movements) Adherence to international environmental conventions and protocols (e.g., Convention on Combating Desertification, Convention of Conservation of Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol) Adherence to Geneva Conventions which call for protection of natural resources of Occupied Territories Observe international human rights standards which call for clean water and sanitation Support international environmental organizations working in the Occupied Territories Eco-friendly tourism Support greening campaigns in Occupied Territories Recycle, reuse, reduce Environmental Structural Violence Confiscation and destruction of agricultural land Uprooting of trees Pirating and diversion of water resources Restrictions on water well drilling and water capture Dumping of solid and toxic waste in Occupied Territories Settlement sewage onto village lands Restrictions on movement and settles violence prevent farmers access to their lands Damaged infrastructure leads to public health problems such as no clean water and no refrigeration for vaccines Race, Systemic Violence, and Retrospective Justice: An African-American Quaker Scholar-Activist Challenges Conventional Narratives (2020) by Harold d. weaver, jr. The BlackQuaker Project Chart on Selected Direct and Structural Violence against African Americans Direct Violence • Police brutality • Mass incarceration • Expulsion/eviction from homes • Gang violence • Burning of African American churches Economic Structural Violence • Poverty • Unemployment • Inadequate minimum wage • Urban renewal/razing Black neighborhoods • Lack of municipal resources in Black neighborhoods • Redlining residential areas/housing segregation Political Structural Violence • Voter ID Laws • Mandatory minimum sentencing and three-strike laws • Increased use of death penalty • Voter disenfranchisement for ex-felons • Election days on work days • Restricting vote by mail • Militarization of the police force Cultural Structural Violence Appropriation of African culture into mainstream, white culture Stereotyping of people of color in media Destruction of Afrocentric cultural landmarks Construction of Eurocentric, anti-Black monuments and landmarks Omission from and distortion of African American history in the larger US narrative Religious Structural Violence • Islamophobia Environmental Structural Violence • Lead poisoning in tap water (Flint, MI) • Cancer corridor stretch from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, LA • Dangerous chemicals in older homes (asbestos, lead paint, etc.) • Polluted air in urban areas • Food deserts (no availability of fresh food) Health Structural Violence • Racist medical assumptions and practices • Prescription overpricing • Opioid epidemic • Criminalization of drug use • Linkage of health insurance to employment • Increased maternal health risks Educational Structural Violence School-to-prison pipeline Demand that students behave “white” (school policies against Black natural hair) Over-punishment of Black students Omission of accurate African American history from textbooks Few teachers of color, a lack of role models Uneven funding between school districts Secondary-school counselors who demean students of color and their capabilities Lack of high expectations for students of color Racial isolation of school districts

United Nations | September 2014 4 Sep 2014 - Roundtable Discussion on the Representation of Slavery in Film. Participants: Ambassador Rattray, Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations and Chair, Permanent Memorial Committee, Vibeke Jensen, Director of the UNESCO Liaison Office in New York And other guests, including: • Roy Anderson, Director of Akwantu: The Journey (2012) and Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess (2015) • Mahen Bonetti, Executive Director, New York African Film Festival Inc. • Professor Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University • Haile Gerima, Director of Sankofa (1993) • Louis Gossett Jr., Academy-Award winning actor, Roots (1977) and The Book of Negroes (2015) • Damon D'Oliveira, Executive Producer of The Book of Negroes (2015) • Clement Virgo, Director of The Book of Negroes (2015) • Dr. Harold Weaver, The BlackFilm Project