- 2025-05. Role of Religions and Faith-Based Actors in Advancing Spiritual and Material Prosperity on the Continent of Africa, The. Bahá'í International Community. — Religious and interfaith actors in Africa can unite diverse communities, inspire collective action, ...
- 2025-03-10. Towards A European Union Anti-Racism Strategy. Bahá'í International Community. — The BIC Brussels Office calls for a transformative EU anti-racism strategy, emphasizing human unity,...
- 2025-03. Exploring a Framework for the Elimination of Racial Prejudice in America. Paul Lample. — Explores a Baha'i-inspired framework for eliminating racial prejudice in America, fostering unity, a...
- 2025-03. Framework for Action and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, The. Derik Smith. — Explores parallels between the Baha’i framework for action and the civil rights movement, emphasiz...
- 2024. Religious Perspectives on the Narratives of America: The Search for Just, Honest, Inclusive and Forward-looking Tellings. Audrey C. Price, ed, Selvi Adaikkalam Zabihi, ed. — Eleven essays by contributors from different communities, exploring how religious insights can creat...
- 2024. Amazing Grace: Stories of Personal Transformation from Slavery to the Present Day. Jaine Toth. — A lengthy script, with accompanying slides, depicting real life stories of Americans, both black and...
- 2023-2026. BWNS Podcasts: Conversations and Insights from the Field. Bahá'í World News Service. — Links to 42 interviews and narratives highlighting how Baha’i individuals and communities worldwid...
- 2023-12. Guess Who's Coming to Church: The Chicago Defender, the Federal Council of Churches, and Rethinking Shared Faith in Interracial Religious Practice. William Stell. — Exploring "Go-to-a-White-Church Sunday" initiated by Robert S. Abbott (1922) and "Race Relations Sun...
- 2023-08. To Set the World in Order: Building and Preserving Strong Marriages. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice, Universal House of Justice, Research Department, comp. . — The cause of unity; creating families that illuminate the world; the ideal milieu for learning the p...
- 2023-01-17. Crisis of Identity, The. Shahrzad Sabet. — Exploring how the Baha’i principle of the oneness of humanity can resolve the seemingly intractabl...
- 2023-01-08. Rising to the Challenge of Reconciliation. Roshan Danesh, Douglas White III. — Analyzing the legacy of colonialism and racism in Canada and examining the profound, multifaceted pr...
- 2023. Harvard Pluralism Project: Bahá'í. Author unknown. — Six overview essays on Baha'i history, beliefs, and practices. (Offsite)
- 2023. Black and Beautiful: Skin Color in the Biblical Song of Songs. Ted Brownstein. — Racial biases can be found in several translations of the biblical Song of Solomon; a look at the or...
- 2022-11-01. Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Nine Year Plan. Universal House of Justice. — Matters relating to the Nine Year Plan (2022-2031), ethnic and cultural diversity, humanity's crisis...
- 2022-09. "And universal peace — in what Book is this written?": How and Why 'Abdu'l-Bahá Identified "New" and Distinctive Bahá'í Principles. Christopher Buck. — Reflections on ‘Abdu’l-Baha's answer to the question "What has Baha’u’llah brought that we h...
- 2022-09. Reconsidering the Civil Rights Era in the Footsteps of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. June Manning Thomas. — On principles of racial prejudice and 1960s South Carolina, including the fallacy of racial prejudic...
- 2022-08-03. Pursuit of Social Justice, The. Michael Karlberg. — An interdisciplinary examination of prevailing conceptions of human nature, power, social organizati...
- 2022. Abdu'l‐Bahá y la cuestión racial. Amin E. Egea (published as Amin E. Egea Farzannejad). — Pese a compartir objetivos comunes, la perspectiva sobre la armonia racial del lider de la religión...
- 2021-05-08. Reading Reality in Times of Crisis: 'Abdu'l-Bahá and the Great War. Amin E. Egea. — How ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s analysis of the crises of His time was profoundly distinct from contemporan...
- 2021-02. Abdu'l-Baha and "The Other". Jan T. Jasion. — On xenophobia; Abdu'l-Baha's response to it; his reactions to certain newspapers; the impact of xeno...
- 2021-01-21. Usage of the Word "Negro" in Writings of Shoghi Effendi. Universal House of Justice. — Brief letter about the historically evolving use of racial terminology, and avoiding offense.
- 2021-01. Bahá'í Response to Racial Injustice and Pursuit of Racial Unity, The: Part 1 (1912-1996). Richard Thomas. — The American Baha’i community’s historical efforts to address racial injustice which has afflict...
- 2020-09. Spatial Strategies for Racial Unity. June Manning Thomas. — On the nature and approaches of Baha’i educational programs and community building efforts which s...
- 2020-07-22. Letter on Racial Prejudice in the United States. Universal House of Justice. — Letter on need for American people to grasp the moment to create a reform of its social order relate...
- 2020. Constructive Imaginary, The. Michael Karlberg. — In a 2007 letter on the closing of the BIHE, the Universal House of Justice introduced the concept o...
- 2020. Africanity, Womanism, and Constructive Resilience: Some Reflections. Layli Maparyan. — The meanings of the metaphor "pupil of the eye;" experiences of growing up African-American in the W...
- 2019. Hayden, Robert. Christopher Buck, Derik Smith. — In his poetics of history and his nuanced representations of black life, Hayden's art showed that th...
- 2019. Alain Locke's "Moral Imperatives for World Order" Revisited. Christopher Buck. — In public speeches presented in 1944 Locke argues that racism, although an American problem, is not ...
- 2019. Still the Most Challenging Issue. John S. Hatcher. — "From the Editor's Desk": On race, racism, and the American Baha'i community.
- 2019. Centering the "Pupil of the Eye": Blackness, Modernity, and the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh. Derik Smith. — The "pupil of the eye" metaphor is a deeply consequential, distinguishing feature of the transformat...
- 2018-08-10. "Double Crusade". Universal House of Justice. — Comments on what the double crusade means, how it relates to the current series of Plans of the Fait...
- 2018. Bahá'í "Pupil of the Eye" Metaphor, The: Promoting Ideal Race Relations in Jim Crow America. Christopher Buck. — On the notable contribution to promoting ideal race relations in Jim Crow America by the Baha'i Fait...
- 2018. Alain Locke on Race, Religion, and the Bahá'í Faith. Christopher Buck. — Locke was cynical about the prospect of real progress in race relations within Christianity itself, ...
- 2018. Bahá'í Faith and African American History, The: Introduction. Loni Bramson. — Contents, Introduction, and Index from this book, with links to two chapters (by Christopher Buck).
- 2017-10/2018-04. Monologues on the Bicentenary of the Birth of Baha'u'llah and Howard University Visit Commemoration. Vasu Mohan, Donna Denize, Nadim van de Fliert. — Five biographical monologues delivered in the fictionalized voices of Harriett Gibbs Marshall, Laura...
- 2017-04-27. Social Action, Public Discourse, and Non-involvement in Political Affairs. Universal House of Justice. — Alternative courses of action to civil disobedience, circumscribed roles for protest, and the freed...
- 2017. Seeking Light in the Darkness of "Race". Jamar M. Wheeler. — A historical sketch of how race concepts evolved, with analysis at macro and micro levels of society...
- 2017. Road Less Travelled By, The. John S. Hatcher. — "From the Editor's Desk": Overview of this issue's articles regarding racism and proper responses to...
- 2017. Race and Racism: Perspectives from Bahá'í Theology and Critical Sociology. Matthew W. Hughey. — Review of the concepts of race and racism based on social scientific understanding, in order to bett...
- 2017. Race, Place, and Clusters: Current Vision and Possible Strategies. June Manning Thomas. — Division by place affects the possibilities for racial unity, especially in fragmented U.S. metropol...
- 2017. Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation, by Jennifer Harvey: Review. Dianne Coin.
- 2017. Ziba Khanum of Yazd: An Enslaved African Woman in Nineteenth-Century Iran. Anthony Lee. — Issues of race, gender, slavery, and religion as experienced by an Afro-Iranian family in the 19th a...
- 2016-03-17. Demographics of the United States National Spiritual Assembly. Archives Office of the United States Bahá'í National Center. — Percentage of women, African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans serv...
- 2016. Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His Shining Circle, by Janet Ruhe-Schoen: Review. Lex Musta.
- 2016. No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community, by Louis Venters: Review. Richard Thomas.
- 2015. CommonVisions: Photography and Conflict Transformation. Chuck Egerton. — How an arts-based photography project, built on the concept of the oneness of humanity, was used to ...
- 2014/2020/2024. List of Articles by Christopher Buck on BahaiTeachings.org. Christopher Buck. — List of online essays and articles by Christopher Buck since 2014.
- 2014-06-06. Message on the occasion of the opening of the 2014 World Cup. Universal House of Justice. — Letter in response to the Brazilian president's invitation for a statement on global peace and harmo...
- 2014. Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age. Nader Saiedi. — A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Baha'i history, key writings, and the need for schola...
- 2013-2025. Bahá'í History and Videos. Hussein Ahdieh. — Links to Zoom videos on a variety of topics: Kahlil Gibran, the life of Varqa, Baha'i schools for gi...
- 2013-09-13. New Race of Men and the meaning of "Tread Under", A. Universal House of Justice. — The meaning of the phrase "A race of men ... will tread under all who are in heaven." Includes compi...
- 2013-01-18. Bahá'ís have outsized MLK presence. Abe Levy. — Baha'is play an increasingly-active role in events celebrating the message of Martin Luther King.
- 2013. Harlem Renaissance. Christopher Buck.
- 2013. Alain Locke. Christopher Buck.
- 2013. Abdu'l-Bahá in America, by Robert H. Stockman, and Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity, ed. Negar Mottahedeh: Reviews. Firuz Kazemzadeh.
- 2013. Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Myth for Interracial Emancipation. Christopher Buck. — Overview of the event, press coverage, publications of the speech, the Emancipation Proclamation "my...
- 2012-12-22. `Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Discourse for Interracial Emancipation. Christopher Buck, Nahzy Abadi Buck. — Presentation at Grand Canyon Baha'i Conference on Abdu'l-Baha and the Black Intelligentsia, especial...
- 2012-12. Interracial "Bahá'í Movement" and the Black Intelligentsia, The: The Case of W. E. B. Du Bois. Christopher Buck. — Du Bois’s encounters with the Baha’i religion from 1910 to 1953, his connection to the New York ...
- 2012-02-10. Public Discourse on Race: Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 Howard University Speech. Christopher Buck. — Presentation at Louhelen Bahá’í School on ‘Abdu’l-Baha and the black intelligentsia, his v...
- 2011-09-30. What does a Baha'i look like? Look around you. Ted Slavin. — What distinguishes Baha'is and Baha'i culture.
- 2011-09. Race Unity Day. Christopher Buck.
- 2011-04-10. Eliminating Racial Prejudice and Activities of the Five Year Plan. Universal House of Justice. — Letter indicating continuing applicability of the statement of the Guardian on racial prejudice desp...
- 2011. Bahá'í 'Race Amity' Movement and the Black Intelligentsia in Jim Crow America, The: Alain Locke and Robert Abbott. Christopher Buck. — W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain L. Locke and Robert S. Abbott, ranked as the 4th, 36th and 41st most influen...
- 2010. Locke, Shock, and Abbott: Baha'i Theology and the Acceleration of the African American Civil Rights Movement. Guy Emerson Mount. — African American responses to Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 visit to America, Abdu'l Baha's teachings among pro...
- 2010. "Most Great Reconstruction": The Bahá'í Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965. Louis E. Venters. — The Faith enjoyed a period of growth from the 1960s-1980s that was largely inspired by interracial t...
- 2009. Gregory, Louis George. Gayle Morrison. — On the African American lawyer who became a leading Baha’i speaker, writer, administrator, and pro...
- 2008. Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy, by Christopher Buck: Review. Derik Smith.
- 2007-09-24. Alain Locke: 'Race Amity' and the Bahá'í Faith. Christopher Buck. — Presentation in slide format about the "First Black Rhodes Scholar."
- 2007-03. Shoghi Effendi and Social Justice. Jack McLean. — The term "social justice” has been used by many engaged groups as a rhetorical tool to obtain more...
- 2007. Progress of the Bahá'í Faith in South Africa since 1911. Author unknown. — Overview of the Baha'i communities in South Africa, 1911-2007.
- 2006-04-15. Alain Locke: Race Leader, Social Philosopher, Bahá'í Pluralist: 94th Annual Commemoration of 'Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Visit to Howard University. Christopher Buck. — Available both as audio and PDF, and includes press release.
- 2005-03-08. African American Baha'is, Race Relations and the Development of the Baha'i Community in the United States. Richard Thomas. — Robert Turner, Susie Steward, Louis Gregory, and the roles played by blacks in the history of the Ba...
- 2005. Alain Locke: Race Leader, Social Philosopher, Baha'i Pluralist: includes Alain Locke in his Own Words: Three Essays and a poem. Christopher Buck, Alain Locke. — Article by Buck, poem "The Moon Maiden" and three essays by Locke introduced by Buck: "The Gospel fo...
- 2004-04. Faith, Theory, and Practice: Interracial Marriage as a Symbol of the Oneness of Humanity. Benjamin Leiker.
- 2004. Alain Locke. Christopher Buck. — The life and ideas of the leading African-American intellectual Alain Locke and his involvement with...
- 2004. Alain Locke and Cultural Pluralism. Christopher Buck. — The worldview of the African American thinker Alain Locke as a Baha'i, his secular perspective as a ...
- 2004. Trial and Triumph: The Origins of the Bahá'í Faith in Black America. Jerome Green. — Focusing on a period between 1890 and 1940, this work addresses how Black America first encountered ...
- 2003. Intimate Diversity: The Presentation of Multiculturalism and Multiracialism in a High-Boundary Religious Movement. Kathleen Jenkins. — On the construction and maintenance of multiracial/ethnic networks in religious movements, through a...
- 2002/2003 Winter. Same Yet Different, The: Creating Unity Among the Diverse Members of the Bahá'í Faith. Deborah Clark Vance. — A study of the process by which people form a unified community from diverse cultures based on inter...
- 2002-05. Same Yet Different, The: Bahá'í Perspectives on Achieving Unity out of Difference. Deborah Clark Vance. — Based on in-depth interviews with members of the Baha’i Faith [in the USA] to uncover a descriptio...
- 2002. Color Conscious - The Political Morality of Race, by K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann: Review. Farzin Aghdasi.
- 2001/2002. Alain Locke: Baha'i Philosopher. Christopher Buck. — Biography of one of the important African American intellectuals and his impact on American thought ...
- 2001. Three Talks in Africa. Alí Nakhjavání, Violette Nakhjavani. — Three talks given in East London, South Africa circa August-September 2001, on personal reminiscence...
- 2001. Cultural Reconciliation in Canada - questions. Universal House of Justice. — Reply from the House of Justice to a request for a reexamination of the assumptions on which its let...
- 2000-06. Cultural Reconciliation in Canada. Universal House of Justice. — The Universal House of Justice suggests to the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada that their effo...
- 2000-03-14. White Bahá'í Men as a sub-group combatting racism. Universal House of Justice. — Use of the phrase "white Baha'i men" in an anti-racism project in North Carolina.
- 1999. New Creation, A: The Power of the Covenant in the Life of Louis Gregory. Gayle Morrison. — Louis Gregory's achievements, focussing on his promotion of the oneness of humankind, teaching the B...
- 1999. Memoirs of Frances Bradford Jones Edelstein. Frances Bradford Jones Edelstein. — Memoirs of the first pioneer to Famagusta (as requested by Shoghi Effendi to pioneer from the City o...
- 1998. Pupil of the Eye, The: African Americans in the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh. The Báb, Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Universal House of Justice, Bonnie J. Taylor, comp. . — A compilation of references in the Baha'i writings to African-Americans and those of African descent...
- 1998. Robert Hayden's Epic of Community. Benjamin Friedlander. — A study of Hayden's poetry in the context of the American experience.
- 1997-12-17. Introduction to a Statement on Race Unity. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. — An informal letter on the "most challenging issue confronting America."
- 1997-11-19. Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of South Africa Johannesburg. — The Baha’i community in South Africa opposed racial segregation through integrated communities and...
- 1997. Colorblindness and Race Unity: One Bahá'í's Perspective. Donald Osborn. — Reflections on race perspectives in the Baha'i writings.
- 1997. Racial Unity: An Imperative for Social Progress, by Richard Thomas: Review. Graham Hassall.
- 1996-04-01. African Americans in the United States. Universal House of Justice. — Comments about what public role might be played by the Baha'i Faith in America to ameliorate the dif...
- 1996. Racial Unity: An Imperative for Social Progress, by Richard Thomas: Review. Nassim Berdjis.
- 1995 Summer. Atlanta Bahá'í Community and Race Unity, The: 1909-1950. Michael McMullen. — History of the Baha'i faith in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, a city whose Baha'i community dates back alm...
- 1995. Affirmative Action and the Jurisprudence of Equitable Inclusion: Towards a New Consensus on Gender and Race Relations. Steven Gonzales. — The principle of equity and the Baha’i emphasis on unity in diversity as a basis for considering A...
- 1995. Race Unity: Implications for the Metropolis. June Manning Thomas. — Universal principles of unity which apply to cities; how racial disunity has been imprinted upon the...
- 1994. Bahá'í Faith and Peace Psychology, The: The Potential for Science and Religion to Collaborate. Rhett Diessner. — On the potential for Bahá’í peace initiatives, coupled with empirical peace psychology approac...
- 1993/1998. Gregory, Louis G.: The Advancement of Racial Unity in America. Harlan F. Ober, Richard Francis, ed. . — Short biography of an early African-American Baha'i.
- 1993-11. Prejudice and Discrimination. Will C. van den Hoonaard. — Prejudice is cultural. History shows no society is immune. U.S. Baha'is facilitated Racial Amity gro...
- 1993-08. Robert Hayden and Being Politically Correct. Duane L. Herrmann. — Robert Hayden did not bow to or rebel against expectations of political correctness, and regarded hi...
- 1993. Three Teaching Methods Used During North America's First Seven-Year Plan. Roger M. Dahl. — Teaching methods used by American Bahá’ís to spread the Faith; firesides and teaching campaign...
- 1991-06. Outpost of a World Religion: The Bahá'í Faith in Australia 1920-1947. Graham Hassall. — An updated version of a paper published in two places.
- 1991. Vision of Race Unity: America's Most Challenging Issue. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. — A formal statement from the US NSA on "the most challenging issue confronting America."
- 1990. Racial Identity and the Patterns of Consolation in the Poetry of Robert Hayden. John S. Hatcher. — The dramatic tension in Robert Hayden’s poetry has often been mistaken for personal ambivalence an...
- 1989. Pictorial History of the Bahá'í Faith in South Africa, 1911 to 1989, A. Various, Lowell Johnson, Susan Ford, Peter Goodman. — Documents the growth of the South African Baha’i community, highlighting its multiracial community...
- 1988. Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice, Helen Bassett Hornby, comp. . — The classic Baha'i reference book. This is its first online edition.
- 1987. Summon Up Remembrance. Marzieh Gail. — Memoir left by Ali-Kuli Khan, one of the first translators of Baha'i Writings; writings of his wife ...
- 1986. Power of Unity, The: Beyond Prejudice and Racism [excerpts]. The Báb, Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Bonnie J. Taylor, comp, National Race Unity Committee, comp. .
- 1983-10-20. Baha'i Doctrine Attracts Non-whites. James S. Tinney. — On the Baha'i Faith's progress toward racial unity; brief bios of Glenford Mitchell, Amoz Gibson, Wi...
- 1979. Settling the Score With Mr. Ogden Nash for the Seven Spiritual Ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore and Thereby Achieving if Not a Better Verse at Least a Longer Title. Roger White. — A dialogue for two readers, adapted from a poem.
- 1976. Dawn over Mount Hira and Other Essays. Marzieh Gail. — A collection of essays on various topics of interest to Baha'i studies and history. Most of these we...
- 1976. Spiritual Assembly's Growing Pains, A. Rúhíyyih Khánum. — A play, in 28 pages, showing "some of the workings of a Baha'i Spiritual Assembly: some of the blund...
- 1971-1995. 1971-1995: Newspaper articles archive. Various. — Collection of newspaper articles from 1971-1995.
- 1969. Message to the Indian and Eskimo Bahá'ís of the Western Hemisphere. Rúhíyyih Khánum. — Letter to Native American and Inuit believers, about the assurance given in the Baha'i Writings that...
- 1957 (?). Spiritual Reinforcement: Study Questions, Compilation, and Quiz. Author unknown, comp. — Questions and quizzes for individual study and group discussion, on "what every Baha'i should know" ...
- 1956-05. Oneness of Mankind, The: Basic Principle of the Bahá'í Faith. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. — Statement of Baha'i teachings prepared in order to clarify the position of members of the Faith thro...
- 1952. Experiment in Race Relations, A. Robert P. Powers. — An early program in race tolerance, preceding the Civil Rights movement, as described by a prominent...
- 1943. Race and Man: A Compilation. Maye Harvey Gift, Alice Simmons Cox. — A collection of words of scientists, sociologists and educators, arranged to present the problem of ...
- 1937. Path to God, The: 1937 edition. Dorothy Baker. — Essay published as a pamphlet about the goal of life, revelation and access to heaven, self-improvem...
- 1907-10. Extracts from Notes Taken at Acca. Aline Shane-Devin. — Discussion on spiritual concepts, prayer, the importance of loving and understanding God; creation a...
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