Racism is America’s most challenging issue. This podcast interviews Baha’is throughout the United States who are actively building racial unity through building community.
Dr. Anthony Lee and the Excavation of Buried Racial Narratives
African American poet, historian, and activist Dr. Anthony Lee has built his life around words, the excavation of buried narratives and the fight to free America of the baneful legacy of racial hatred. Learn more on BahaiTeachings.org
16 May 2021
Kathleen Cross: Claiming Her Identity as a Mixed Race Woman
Kathleen Cross lives in spaces of intersectionality. As a woman of mixed racial heritage – the daughter of a White mother and a Black father – she was raised by her single mother in Pasadena, California on a street inhabited mostly by African American residents.Join me as we welcome Kathleen to America’s Most Challenging Issue to discuss issues of race, identity, and the unifying teachings of the Baha’i Faith. Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
15 Jan 2021
A Conversation About Race With My Father
Our host Masud Olufani welcomes a very special guest, his dad, Milton John Bolds. On this episode Masud and his father re-examine an experience they had together when he was just a boy driving across the country with his father.Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
1 Dec 2020
Black Fathers Raising Black Roses
Dr. Anthony Outler and Nasif Habbeb-ullah tell us how the Baha’i Faith influences their approach to raising Black children in a racist society.Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
1 Dec 2020
Dr. William Smith: Founder of the National Center for Race Amity
In this episode of America’s Most Challenging Issue, I sit down with Dr. William Smith to discuss his journey to the Baha’i Faith and the social and political upheavals of the 1960’s that seeded his investigation. We also look at his work as a filmmaker and how that path of service has helped to shape the social discourse on race.Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
17 Jan 2020
Jamila Canady: A Woman of Remarkable Insight
Jamilia Canidy, gatherer of souls, facilitator of spiritual discourse, convener of seeking hearts, has insight and wisdom to spare – and we’d like to share it with you. In the nearly thirty years that I have known her, Jamilia has always evinced a consistent model of humility, service and principled conviction. A woman of remarkable insight and accomplishment, she has been a business owner, an actor and a playwright, an educator, a servant of the poor, a community builder, and a committed pro...
14 Dec 2019
Homa Tavangar: Raising Children To Be At Home in The World
In this episode of America’s Most Challenging Issue, I sit down with Homa Tavangar to discuss her advocacy for a unified humanity through equity, inclusiveness, relationship building and respect for the spiritual endowment of every human being.Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
15 Nov 2019
Come Along on the Great American Race Unity Road Trip
In this episode of America's Most Challenging Issue we sit down with Eric and Genevieve Dozier, who along with their daughters Justice and Worthington, are making a musical trek across the length and breadth of America to foster racial reconciliation and healing through song.Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
16 Aug 2019
Ymasumac on Being Both the Colonized and the Colonizer
In this episode we sit down with Ymasumac Maronan Davis—a counselor and a listener; an educator and a student; a healer and a disruptor; a poet and an interrogator of languages--joins us on America’s Most Challenging Issue to talk about the spiritual literacies of her ancestors, the Quechua people of Bolivia, and how those literacies align with the teachings of the Baha’i faith. Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
2 Aug 2019
Cynthia Barnes Slater: Fearlessly Fostering Spaces of Inclusion
In this episode of America’s Most Challenging Issue we discuss Cynthia’s life and work, focusing on her childhood in the diverse city of San Francisco.Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
5 Jul 2019
Jack Gordon: Deepening Our Shared Spiritual Identity
In this episode of America’s Most Challenging Issue, BahaiTeachings.org engages with filmmaker and podcast host Jack Gordon in a lively discussion about the work of building bridges across cultural and religious divides. Jack unpacks the advantages of white privilege, and speaks frankly about the challenges and benefits of consciously choosing to be in spaces outside of one’s culture of origin.Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
14 Jun 2019
Sahar Sattarzadeh: How Racism Migrates Across Cultures
In this episode of America’s Most Challenging Issue, we sit down with Dr. Sattarzadeh to talk frankly about her life, research and role as a protagonist in the effort to eliminate racial and gender discrimination. In addition, we will examine how she integrates the various aspects of her professional life into her Baha’i identity.Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
23 May 2019
From Sit-ins to Spirituals: The Baha'i Activism of Van Gilmer
In this episode BahaiTeachings.org interviews Baha’i National Center Choral Director Van Gilmer. Van reflects on his life as a Baha’i and his career in gospel music, focusing on his experiences with racism and how the Baha’i teachings helped to shape his activism and his understanding of the spiritual reality of oneness.Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
14 May 2019
Bahia Overton: Revealing the Latent Potential in Children
This week on America's Most Challenging Issue we interview, Bahia Overton, who demonstrates in both her professional life, and her community service, a profound dedication to the spiritual and material well-being of children.Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
14 May 2019
Justin de Leon: The Internal and External Realities of Race
In this episode of America’s Most Challenging Issue, BahaiTeachings.org sits down with the innovative educator, scholar, public speaker, and filmmaker Justin de Leon, to discuss how his multidisciplinary practice--which investigates oppressive systems of power—is informed by transcendent spiritual truths, delineated by the Baha’i teachings, about the inherent nobility of all.Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
14 May 2019
Michael O’Neal: Empowering Healthy Families by the Thousands
In the first episode of America’s Most Challenging Issue, Michael O’Neal, the founder and director of the Savannah-based Parent University, analyzes the circumstances that led him to develop this innovative community building initiative. O’Neal discusses his long career in community service and how that service intersects with the teachings of the Baha’i Faith.Learn more at BahaiTeachings.org
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