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Paris, France | Musee Quai Branly | Dakar 66 Exhibition | Spring 2016 My relationship with friends, colleagues, and institutions in Paris continues to this day, including, later on, with the 2016 exhibition of “Dakar 66: Chronicles d’un festival panafricains” at the Musee Quai Branly. Because I participated in the original festival in April 1966, the Panafest Project of scholars in Paris selected me for interviewing. In addition, I was invited to participate in an international conference in Dakar in November 2016, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ‘66 event. My paper, to be published this year in a volume of conference papers, draws upon the 2013 interview. The festival of ’66 had a dramatic impact on my life, nurturing the budding African American scholar within me to continue on in my academic work.

Kings Point Visit In August 2021 Harold D. Weaver Visited the Evans family in Kings Point, Long Island. Jon Evans (pictured second to right) was a former Clerk of the Board at Haverford Friends Meeting and is a current member of the Haverford Corporation along with his son Jeremy (pictured on right).

The BlackQuaker Project’s Anti-Violence Resource Guide for Quakers Confronting Systemic Violence The BlackQuaker Project aims, in part, to address the concerns of Quakers of Color. In the USA, at this critical moment, Quakers and People of Color are concerned for their futures. The omnipresence of police violence and uneven effects of the pandemic on communities of color due to systemic racism has resulted in the senseless murders of countless Black people and the increased risk of dying from COVID-19. The BlackQuaker Project has compiled a list of resources (resources to learn about systemic violence, places to donate, and additional ways to support the protests) for the Quaker community, paying special attention to resources that promote the Quaker values of peace with justice and equality with justice. Updated June 19th, 2020. Quaker Resources The Quakers of Color International Archive The Quakers of Color International Archive The Quakers of Color International Archive is a collection of videotaped interviews with Quaker from Palestine to Kenya to the Americas, documenting the stories, achievements, and concerns of Quakers of Color worldwide. This archive, based at the Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst, is useful in understanding the experiences of Quakers of Color from around the world, and it can be found here . We expect to add other media in the near future. Readings from Harvard professors in African American Studies from The Harvard Gazette : Further Readings ​ An open letter to white people just now getting involved in social justice, by Ijeoma Ouma. Letter From a Birmingham Jail , an open letter by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from his time spent in Birmingham jail. In it he writes "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". ​ These books on the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation reading list. ​ The 1619 Project , created by the New York Times, aims to reframe America’s history by centering it around Black Americans and racial injustice. ​ The Urban Institute is a nonprofit research organization that shares their research on social and economic policy with anyone looking to address today’s problems and prevent future ones. Campaign Zero has a multitude of resources and data on their website that they use when advocating for policy solutions. ​ How We Rise ​ , a blog launched by The Race, Prosperity and Inclusion Initiative at Brookings discusses the challenges and work that needs to be done to tackle structural racism in the US. We found this post from Camille Busette particularly intriguing. ​ Understanding the Policing of Black, Disabled Bodies by Vilissa Thompson and published by the Center for American Progress. ​ Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework by Moya Bailey and Izetta Autumn Mobley. Listen What Matters is a documentary narrative mixed with interviews brought to you by the Black Lives Matter movement. The platform creates dialogues promoting freedom, justice, and collective liberation. Strange Fruit , brought to you by NPR and hosted by Dr. Kaila Story and Jason Gardner, explores the topics of pop culture, politics, and life as black and gay in the US. Intersectionality Matters! A podcast hosted by civil rights activist and lead scholar on critical race theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw. Code Switch by NPR talks about race’s role in history to today’s pop culture, and is brought to you by a team of people of color. Watch Free Movies and Documentarie s Educational Videos Available on Streaming Platforms 1/1 Donate WHERE TO DONATE Other Ways to be Actively Anti-Violent VOTE Register to vote here . Find your polling location here . Find your representatives here . The NAACP has set up an easy way to email your House and Senate representatives about COVID-19 justice and criminal justice reforms here . ​ PROTEST Learn how to keep personal safety at protests here Learn how to find protest here Wear a mask! Support Black-Owned Businesses Buy from Black-owned businesses. You can begin to find Black-owned business anywhere in the United States by using the Official Black Wall Street or Support Black Owned directories, though they certainly do not cover all Black-owned businesses. Never Stop Learning Being active on social media and following the news is a great way to find resources, including petitions to sign and people to call for justice. Though there will always be misinformation, it is important to stay up-to-date and engaged on these topics instead of blocking them out. Connect ​ Antiracism Center: Twitter | Instagram Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Black Lives Matter: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Equal Justice Initiative: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook The Movement For Black Lives: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Showing Up for Racial Justice: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook The BlackQuaker Project would like to thank all the resources we used while compiling this list, especially the resource lists given by Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List , and The Harvard Gazette .

We are thrilled to announce the Black Quaker Lives Matter Film Festival & Forum, a first-of-its-kind film festival that aims to educate all about the importance of Quakers of Color who for too long have remained within the margins of the Society of Friends and the wider world. From 12 February 2022, during Black History Month, until Paul Robeson’s 124th birthday, 9 April 2022, we will screen a film centered on a Quaker of Color, with an introduction from a guest expert and a follow-up discussion facilitated by BQP Director Dr. Harold D. (Hal) Weaver. Screenings will take place every other Saturday on Zoom at 1pm ET. ​ REGISTER HERE Our Honorees and Media Click on each to learn more! The Black Quaker Lives Matter Film Festival is co-sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and co-presented with the DEFA Film Library at UMass Amherst , the Coolidge Corner Theater , and the Goethe-Institut Boston . Those to be celebrated include: Mahala Ashley Dickerson, Howard Thurman, and Bayard Rustin, three African American Friends featured in Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights (2011) (edited by Harold D. Weaver Jr., Paul Kriese, and Stephen W. Angell). We will also be celebrating Quakers of Color International Archive (QCIA) Interviewee, South African political leader, anti-aprtheid activist, and newly appointed QUNO-Geneva Director Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge. The festival concludes by honoring prolific artist and human rights activist Paul Robeson and his two centuries of Quaker ancestors. ​ Our first screening will be a unique event, featuring a landmark dialogue between Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge and Palestinian Friend and AFSC General Secretary Joyce Ajlouny, the first two women of color to lead Quaker transnational organizations. The final screening on 9 April will also be presented at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Boston for a simultaneous online and in-person event. Our Guest Experts Joyce Ajlouney AFSC General Secretary & Palestinian Friend Dr. Stephen Angell Earlham School of Religion Johnny Gibbons Life-time law partner of Mahala Dickerson. Walter Nagle Bayard Rustin’s partner and adopted son Dr. Sa’ed Atshan Swarthmore professor, currently writing a book on African American and Palestinian Quakers Joyce Mosley Researcher and descendent of the Bustill-Mapps-Douglass family Dr. Mark Solomon Eminent historian. Dr. Harold D. Weaver Robeson advocate-researcher for over 50 years Write to us at the theblackquakerproject@gmail.com with any questions about the Festival. Peace and blessings, Dr. Harold D. (Hal) Weaver Director of The BlackQuaker Project

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.

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

Current Activities 01 Retrospective Justice in Healing Historical Injustice and Ills: Reparations Defined as “an attempt to administer justice years after the commission of a severe injustice or series of injustices,” we advocate that Quakerism adopt Retrospective Justice as a model for healing historical injustice. Our ministry is providing education on this call to action through e-newsletters, publications, and collaborative lecture-presentations with Friend Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a leader in South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement, the African National Congress, and transnational organizations. 02 Collaborating with the United Nations, Quakers, and human-rights activists in activities commemorating the UN International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) and the UN International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. 03 PAUL ROBESON AND BAYARD RUSTIN ADVOCACY: Restoring Paul Robeson and Bayard Rustin to their rightful places in history, including the presentation given at 2019 Friends Association on Higher Education conference, titled Truth and An African American Quaker Activist Scholar: Africana Studies, Paul Robeson, and Bayard Rustin. 04 MEMOIRS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS: Writing and lecturing on memoirs, "Black Fire: An African American Quaker Seeker-Activist in a White-Supremacist Culture." Vol. II of projected 3-part BLACK FIRE trilogy, with a focus on confronting white supremacy. Updating Cold War historiography manuscript, "Soviet Training and Research Programs for Africa" for publication as MENTAL DECOLONIZATION AND THE COLD WAR: AFRICAN STUDENT ELITES IN THE USSR, in keeping with Quaker testimonies. Revising and updating 2008 Weed Lecture publication, "Facing Unbearable Truths." 05 HONORS: Judith Weller Harvey Quaker Scholar, Guilford College, and Cadbury Scholar, Pendle Hill, 2019. Associate, Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. 06 ADVOCACY AND COLLABORATIONS: Continuing advocacy and collaborations with domestic and international Quaker and non-Quaker units and individuals working for Truth, Community, Equality, Peace, and Justice. Specifically includes Friends in East Africa, Latin America, Palestine/Israel, and Asia; the Third World Coalition of the American Friends Service Committee; Alaskan Friends Conference; Friends World Committee for Consultation; the Cuban Quaker Peace Institute; et al. 07 TRANSLATION INTO SPANISH: Postponed: Translating into Spanish, “Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights,” 2011, the first publication in the Black Fire trilogy.

Wellesley Friends Meeting: July 2020 The BlackQuaker Project presents at Wellesley Thursdays LEARN MORE Here In July 2020 Dr. Harold D. Weaver, Jr. and the Black Quaker Project staff presented a report on their ongoing research to Wellesley Friends Meeting. This is a recording of our presentation: BLACK LIVES MATTER! -- Ground-breaking activities and research. (Q&A begins at 33:15)

Moscow | October 2017 From Manchester, we flew to Moscow, which Hal had first visited in 1959 as a member of the official USA-USSR youth exchange program, for an international African Studies conference. Hal was participating as presenter and panel co-organizer with his friend Dmitri Bondarenko, Deputy Director of Moscow’s Institute for African Research. Hal has been communicating with Russian scholars in African Studies since 1961 when the pioneering African American scholar, W.E.B Du Bois, gave him a letter of introduction to the Institute’s founding Director, I. I. Potekhin. Update on a significant change in the financing of research on Africa in Russia: the business sector has begun to assume some financing as the Russian government pulls back its funding support. Anne, on her first visit to Russia, was able to visit the Kremlin and Red Square and other historical sights while Hal focused mostly on the conference that drew scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the USA. We visited the campus of Friendship University (see photo above), established in 1960 to aid the decolonization process in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This university has provided students with training in natural, physical, and health sciences, as well as agriculture and other technical areas that were not available to them in their home countries and elsewhere in most of the world. Our visits to the State Central Museum of the Contemporary History of Russia and a large art gallery provided us with some glimpses into the rich history of Russia. We witnessed what seemed like a popular Putin and a busy Russian economy despite Western sanctions. Perhaps, our biggest surprise was at the iconic Bolshoi Theater, attending the theatrically innovative Hayden opera, ALMIDA (1783). We did not expect two things: (1) to see gay and straight couples and groups simulating sex on stage in a country well known in the USA for its puritanism, homophobia, and anti-gay laws and (2) to learn later that ALMIDA--or for that matter, no Hayden opera--has ever been staged by a major USA opera house, including the Met.

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

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.