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How the Founder of America’s Most Important Black Newspaper Became a Baha’i
In the October 12, 1952 issue of Ebony magazine, a feature article appeared titled, “Baha’i Faith, Only Church in World That Does Not Discriminate.” At that time, Ebony magazine enjoyed…
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Meet Miami’s First Black Millionaire, Who Worked to Worship
Meet Miami’s first Black millionaire — Dana Albert Dorsey, a real estate magnate, philanthropist, Miami’s most famous early Black resident, and a Baha’i. Dorsey, a sharecropper’s son, was born in…
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Dizzy Gillespie, Music, and the Baha’i Faith
…music, sung or played, is spiritual food for soul and heart. The musician’s art is among those arts worthy of the highest praise, and it moveth the hearts of all……
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Hazel Scott: A Famous Black Pianist, Singer, and Baha’i
Often, when women of color are vocal about discrimination, they become the targets of hostile sexism and are tone policed or silenced. And, if you were a Black woman during…