Quaker Welcome Center

11/12/2018

Check out this promo video for the Welcome Center in honor of Ed Nicholson.

www.HistoryInYourOwnBackyard.com The Fountain City Quaker Meeting House was built in 1837 as the Newport Meeting House of Friends.

04/16/2018

Register for a free monthly interactive e-course to explore, reflect, and act for social change.

03/09/2018

Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy. Amen.

A video of men appearing to be sold at auction in Libya has shocked the world

03/09/2018

Underrepresented in our contemporary histories.

Although she’s often overshadowed by her husband, Frederick Douglass, Anna made his work possible

03/07/2018

Winter at the Welcome Center.

02/19/2018

Black women's history matters in medicine. Read ProPublica's feature piece on how the US is the most dangerous industrialized country in which to give birth,...

02/17/2018

Check out this beautiful story of empowerment!

In this week's episode of Racked series, Dress the Part, we catch up with Cheyney McKnight who is single-handedly changing the landscape of historical interp...

02/12/2018

Check out this fascinating and emotionally rich article about the Fellowship of Friends of African Descent!

"We are our grandmothers’ prayers
and we are our grandfathers’ dreamings
we are the breath of our ancestors
we are the spirit of God."

The Fellowship of Friends of African Descent travels to Ghana's Hill House Meeting.

02/10/2018

When school groups visit the QWC, they're taught about early Quaker worship, including the importance of silence. What does silence mean to you? Are you seeing more folks outside of Quakerism or other mystical or aesthetic movements yearning for or teaching the importance of silence? What does silence mean in your life?

Why do we need silence? Because it is the habitat of conversation, thought, and soul.

02/09/2018

What do you teach your children about the pledge? If this happened in your school, how would you respond?

Protests involving the American flag have become a flash point in the past two years after then-NFL player Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the national anthem.

02/08/2018

Given how restrictive the King Foundation is with MLK's content, in academic settings for instance, how do you understand their decision to approve this ad?

America’s progressive distilling, dissolution, and dissolving of Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy and the accompanying appropriation of his words is truly a wonder to behold. It is like watching someone pour themselves a shot of Jack Daniels. But in a gallon jug instead of a shot glass. And then w...

02/05/2018

Important history

An archaeological expedition into the wilderness of North Carolina uncovers evidence of a remarkable settlement once filled with runaway slaves determined to...