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.
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Dr. Anthony Lee and the Excavation of Buried Racial Narratives (01:16:40)
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...
Kathleen Cross: Claiming Her Identity as a Mixed Race Woman (01:03:08)
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, Californ...
A Conversation About Race With My Father (00:38:56)
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 ...
Black Fathers Raising Black Roses (00:38:52)
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
Dr. William Smith: Founder of the National Center for Race Amity (00:44:52)
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 i...
Jamila Canady: A Woman of Remarkable Insight (00:38:28)
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...
Homa Tavangar: Raising Children To Be At Home in The World (00:38:28)
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 t...
Come Along on the Great American Race Unity Road Trip (00:38:17)
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 ...
Ymasumac on Being Both the Colonized and the Colonizer (00:49:27)
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 ...
Cynthia Barnes Slater: Fearlessly Fostering Spaces of Inclusion (00:40:06)
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
Jack Gordon: Deepening Our Shared Spiritual Identity (00:43:02)
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 an...
Sahar Sattarzadeh: How Racism Migrates Across Cultures (00:36:57)
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 di...
From Sit-ins to Spirituals: The Baha'i Activism of Van Gilmer (00:48:50)
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 r...
Bahia Overton: Revealing the Latent Potential in Children (00:36:09)
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 materia...
Justin de Leon: The Internal and External Realities of Race (00:55:44)
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 multidisciplin...
Michael O’Neal: Empowering Healthy Families by the Thousands (00:43:04)
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 inno...
