Launch of ‘Black Quaker Lives Matter’ film festival

First screening features the first two women of colour to lead Quaker transnational organisations.

Quakers in the US have welcomed a new ‘Black Quaker Lives Matter’ film festival this month, celebrating the lives and contributions of people of colour. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), which co-sponsors the event, said that the festival aims ‘to educate all about the importance of Quakers of Colour who for too long have remained within the margins of the Society of Friends and the wider world’.

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