Special Guest Dr. Hal Weaver
Dr. Weaver is our 2019 Judith Weller Harvey Quaker Scholar
On October 1, 2019 at 7pm Dr. Hal Weaver will Present on "An African American Quaker Scholar-Activist Confronts Unbearable Truths" During Social Justice Week!
We have invited Dr. Hal Weaver of the Black Quaker Project to come as our Judith Weller Harvey Quaker Scholar, in partnership with Guilford College's Intercultural Engagement Center, to be one of our speakers during social justice week.
Please join Hal Weaver as he shares experiences and insights from his memoirs in progress. Follow Hal’s journey from his earliest days on a small Black college campus in Savannah, GA, through Westtown and Haverford. From his early experience in Communist Moscow as a member of an official USSR -USA young adult exchange group, Hal has been a lifelong cultural ambassador. He has traveled the world breaking down barriers and building bridges between cultures, often using film as the medium through The BlackFilm Project and the China-Africa-Russia Project. A pioneer in Africana studies, he founded and chaired the Africana Studies Department at Rutgers. Hal continues to break down barriers within the Religious Society of Friends, too, with his ministry, The BlackQuaker Project, one of the fruits of which was the publication of Black Fire: African-American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights (2011), which Hal edited with Paul Kriese and Stephen W. Angell. Last fall, Hal continued his mission to correct Cold War historiography by delivering lectures in Moscow, the UK, and Istanbul, on Paul Robeson, African decolonization, African students in the USSR, and his own transnational experiences in cultural diplomacy.
All are invited to join us for his public presentation on Tuesday, October 1, 2019, at 7 pm in the Carnegie Room at Guilford College.
On October 2, 2019 at 12:30 PM (Gilmore Room) There will be an open lunch-time conversation
Public Presentation "An African American Quaker Scholar-Activist Confronts Unbearable Truths"
Tuesday, Oct 1, 2019, 07:00 PM
Guilford College
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
Book - Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights
Black Fire gathers together the voices of 18 remarkable individuals who spoke and wrote as African Americans from within the Quaker community. they testify about their viewpoints on racial justice -- both within the Religious Society of Friends and society at large - and they speak of their life in the Spirit. As a collection, these selections exhibit the vitality and wisdom that three centuries of African American Quakers have contributed to and on behalf of Friends. The ebook version is available in mobi (for Kindle readers) and epub (for all other eReaders). Click here for the ebook.
Edited by Harold D. Weaver Jr., Paul Kriese, and Steven W. Angell
Order Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rigths from Quaker Books
About Dr. Harold (Hal) Weaver
Dr. Harold (Hal) D. Weaver is an Associate at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Hal spent his earliest days on a small Black college campus in Savannah, GA, later moving to Pennsylvania and attending Westtown School and Haverford College. From his early experience in Communist Moscow as a member of an official USSR-USA young adult exchange group, Hal has been a lifelong cultural ambassador. He has traveled the world breaking down barriers and building bridges between cultures, often using film as the medium through The BlackFilm Project and the China-Africa-Russia Project. A pioneer in Africana studies, he founded and chaired the Africana Studies Department at Rutgers. Last fall, Hal continued his mission to correct Cold War historiography by delivering lectures in Moscow, the UK, and Istanbul, on Paul Robeson, African decolonization, African students in the USSR, and his own transnational experiences in cultural diplomacy.
Hal continues to break down barriers within the Religious Society of Friends, too, with his ministry, The BlackQuaker Project, one of the fruits of which was the publication of Black Fire: African-American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights (2011), which Hal edited with Paul Kriese and Stephen W. Angell. A member of Wellesley Friends Meeting, Hal is active locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally among Quakers. He 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.