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EDUCATION Educating Quakers and non-Quakers about the contributions of Kenyan and other African and Afro-descendant Quakers Organizing transnational research-and-publications projects aimed at drawing upon Quaker testimonies to facilitate international peace and understanding, long distorted by media and scholarly misinformation and disinformation: The China-Africa-Russia Project and The BlackFilm Project. Visiting Quaker Meetings and ecumenical conferences to share our book, Black Fire: American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights . The NEYM Racial, Social, and Economic Justice Committee is distributing copies to all Meetings in New England. Please contact us to schedule a presentation at your Meeting or conference. CORNELL UNIVERSITY SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATORS | 1969 In 1969, Hal helped conceive and served as director of a multi-disciplinary team of educators at Cornell University of an innovative summer institute, funded by the US Office of Education, that recruited racially mixed, mostly African American teams of teachers, school administrators, and school board members. We felt that bringing that group together, rather than taking individuals, would be the most effective way of implementing what they had learned, so they could go back as a team and reinforce what each had learned, at different levels of the instructional organization. These educators were from major urban areas to learn about and then teach, in innovative ways, especially using film, the relationship between Africa and African America. Our inter-disciplinary leadership team was especially interested in recruiting and impacting those school districts which were transitioning--or attempting to transition--to Black community control of the schools, including ridding the schools of Euro-centric curricula, and the desire to have learning and teaching in the hands of members of the Afro-descendent community. PAUL ROBESON VIDEO LECTURE, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | 1972 Produced by Rutgers University ITV, Professor Weaver wrote and appeared in this video lecture about Paul Robeson as a synthesis in the semester-long introductory course.

All Videos Reproducir video Reproducir video 00:20 Kenneth Akito Oye (Preview) Interview with Dr. Kenneth Akito Oye. MIT Political Scientist, Member of the AFSC Board, and member of Wellesley Friends Meeting. Reproducir video Reproducir video 01:08 Dancan Sabwa (Preview) Interview with Kenyan Quaker, Dancan Sabwa. Born into a Quaker family in Kaimosi, Kenya. Reproducir video Reproducir video 01:28 Joan Countryman (Preview) Interview with Joan Countryman, the first African American graduate of Germantown Friends School, longtime teacher of mathematics and head of academic planning there, lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, and co-founder of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership School for Girls in South Africa. Reproducir video Reproducir video 01:07 Emma Condori Mamani (Preview) Interview with Bolivian Quaker, Emma Condori Mamani, a member of Santidad Amigos Yearly Meeting. Reproducir video Reproducir video 01:33 James Varner (Preview) Interview with James Varner, President and CEO of the Maine Human Rights Coalition, and a long-time member of the Orono Monthly Meeting. Reproducir video Reproducir video 01:21 Jean Zaru (Preview) Interview with Palestinian Quaker Jean Zaru, a proponent of non-violent resistance, a founding member of Sabeel, the Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem, and co-founder of the Friends International Center in Ramallah. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE ARCHIVE 01 Mission The Quakers of Color International Archive (QCIA) is a multi-media study-and-research collection. It is intended as the first centralized, comprehensive collection of videos, writings, films, and audio resources by and about Quakers of Color worldwide. 02 History We began with a pilot project in spring 2019, interviewing outstanding Quakers of Color from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the USA. Our first interviewees were Palestinian Friend Jean Zaru, Kenyan Friend Dancan Sabwa, Bolivian Friend Emma Condori Mamani, and pioneering African American Friends Joan Countryman, James Varner, and our director Harold D. (Hal) Weaver. It has grown to include over 22 released interviews with more to come. 03 Availability The QCIA is accessible to scholars, educators, and students who wish a better understanding of the lives, achievements, and contributions of Quakers of Color worldwide to the Society of Friends and to the broader community. Our Advisory Committee 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: ​ ​​ ​ The late Rob Cox, Director of Special Collections, UMass/Amherst Library and Overseer, NEYM Archives, UMass/Amherst Library​. We are forever grateful for his enduring work without which this archive would probably not exist. ​ 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 Aaron Rubinstein, Head of the Robert Cox Special Collections and University Archives at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Professor Emma Lapsansky-Werner Aaron Rubinstein Mary Craudereuff

New England Yearly Meeting: Sessions 2020 A Dialogue on Survival Dr. Amanda Kemp and Dr. Harold D. Weaver, Jr. LEARN MORE ​

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.”

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

WHAT WE DO 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, Community and Justice. TRUTH "Do we need a reminder that our name was first the 'Religious Society of Friends of Truth'?" "Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another." (Gandhi quoted in Facing Unbearable Truths , 2008) PEACE "We must expand our peace testimony, making it more inclusive, more comprehensive. It is much too narrow, ordinarily encompassing only 'direct violence,' that observable, intentional physical or mental violence unwanted by the victim, whether an individual or a collective (e.g., a nation). The major prevailing violence is 'systemic or institutional violence,' which in reality appears to lead to or to cause or to facilitate 'direct violence,' which is usually what we mean when we use the term 'violence.' However, that is only one minor meaning. Hence, we cannot afford to be merely nonviolent but must be 'anti-violent,' as we are 'anti-war.'" (Weaver, Facing Unbearable Truths , 2008) JUSTICE "Without justice there is no peace; even in the absence of open strife there is no peace, only a manipulated lull in hostilities. Justice has two connotations. One is fairness, righteous dealing, integrity; necessary, but not sufficient conditions for lasting peace. The other, to quote the Oxford English Dictionary, is observance of the divine law; righteousness; the state of being just before God. When the bonding force of love unifies the two dimensions, the temporal and the spiritual, the task of the peacemaker is fulfilled. Truth has been established: true justice reigns." (Adam Curle, True Justice: Quaker peace makers and peace making , quoted in Facing Unbearable Truths , 2008). EQUALITY "Our equality testimony flows inevitably from our belief that there is that of God in every person. If we believe in Equality, we must work for Justice. British Friends remind us: 'Are you alert to the practices throughout the world which discriminates against people on the basis of who or what they are, or because of their beliefs? Bear witness to the humanity of all people, including those who break society's conventions or its laws. Try to discern new growing points in social and economic life. Seek to understand the causes of injustice, social unrest, and fear. Are you working to bring about a just and compassionate society which allows everyone to develop their capacities and fosters the desire to serve?'" (Facing Unbearable Truths , 2008) Why The BlackQuaker Project? Why is The BlackQuaker Project needed at this time in history? ​ While Quakers of Color comprise over half the world's Quaker population, little is known about the lives and achievements of Quakers of Color little is known about the contributions of Quakers of Color to Quakerism and to Quakers Quakers of Color are under-represented in leadership roles and grass-root levels in Quaker organizations worldwide, giving little opportunity to impact decision-making and to express and implement their unique perspectives Quakers of Color and their perspectives seldom represent Quakers and Quaker organizations at meetings and conferences of religious bodies, peacemakers and peace builders, academic societies, and ethnic and racial groups worldwide Quakers--and the world--need constant reminders and evolving 21st century interpretations of Quaker testimonies, values, and principles, including Truth/Integrity, Peace, Equality, Community , and Justice, and their application in witness

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