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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 proponent of justice. In this episode of America’s Most Challenging Issue, I engage in a loving conversati ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more