A Spiritual Path to Unity & Social Justice

Join Tiffany Fant, Executive Director of Sol Nation, as we explore the deep connection between environmental and racial justice—and what it means to build communities where everyone can truly breathe free.

Grounded in the foundational principle of the oneness of humankind, the series encourages participants to confront biases, develop meaningful friendships across different lived experiences, and take action toward creating a more unified and just community.

Join us Sunday, April 19 from 2-6pm at the Charlotte Bahá’í Center to consider the intersection between race and the environment. Environmental justice is about more than recycling or personal choices—it’s about understanding how decades of policy and planning have placed Black communities in the most environmentally hazardous areas of our country.

Through redlining, zoning decisions, and “urban renewal,” entire neighborhoods were systematically exposed to greater pollution, flooding, and health risks—patterns that continue today.

We are pleased to welcome Rev. Corine Mack, President of the NAACP, North Carolina who will talk about how

We Are Stronger Together

Rev. Mack will reflect on the role of faith and the faithful in eliminating racism, speaking candidly to both Black and white participants about the moral responsibility of communities of faith at this moment in our society.

She will also share about her partnership with the Greenspon Center in creating two monuments to human dignity—one honoring the Civil Rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the other dedicated to Holocaust remembrance—reminding us that though we have suffered separately, we can rise together.

Following the presentation, we will gather in facilitated small-group discussions.

Light refreshments will be served.
All are welcome—please feel free to invite a friend.

We hope you’ll join us for our February Overcoming Racism gathering—right in the middle of Black History Month—for an afternoon of learning, conversation, and connection. 

We’ll be joined by Dr. Guy Mount, a historian whose work helps make sense of how race, power, and history still shape our lives today.

Guy is an award-winning professor at Wake Forest, deeply involved in reparations work across the country, and currently writing a book that tells a global history of emancipation through the lived experiences of Black workers moving across borders and empires. 

That sounds big—and it is—but what makes his work so compelling is how grounded and human it feels. He spoke with us back in September 2024 on Reparations and it was one of the most energized programs we've had.

No two people have the same lived experience. Learning that your experience and understanding of the world is vastly different than someone else's and is shaped by the social construct, forces & messages around you is a first steps towards overcoming racism. Because racism continues to work its evil upon this nation, an essential element of the process will work to learn about current conditions and their causes, and understanding, in particular, the deeply entrenched notions of anti-Blackness that pervade our society. 

MORE RESOURCES

Articles, movies and books are one source of information to build the capacity to truly hear and acknowledge the voices of those who have directly suffered from the effects of racism. 

 It is not acceptable to expect those people so weighed down by injustice to also educate us on their experience or what needs to be done by white people . There is plenty of available information to begin doing the work required. We invite you to consider the following to begin:

Article: Both Black and White, and Neither 

Book: 'White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide'

Book: 'The Invention of the White Race'

Documentary: I Am Not Your Negro

Documentary: Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory examines and discusses the relationships between the legal history of anti-blackness and Whiteness through colonialism and the United States, and its impacts on present-day America. It centers anti-blackness as the core tenet of "racism" in White America and amplifies its relationship to the inherent "value" of Whiteness (i.e., White identity, White culture, White institutions, etc.). The text repositions and critically examines four core White American economic, moral, socio-cultural, and ideological institutions: human sex trafficking, rape, pedophilia, and violence (murder).

It positions racism as a disease/illness (i.e., psychosis, psychopathy, sociopathy, etc.), rather than a mere "social construct"; and amplifies the significance of anti-blackness and Whiteness within and throughout White American institutions (i.e., legality, politics, language, economics, etc.), past and present.

Link for more on Dante King

Charlotte, NC – Discourse2Action continues its Overcoming Racism discussion series by co-hosting a powerful event with YWCA Central Carolinas on the intersection of racial justice and gender equity. The session, “Eliminating Racism, Empowering Women,” will be held on Sunday, November 23, 2025, from 2-6 PM at the Charlotte Baháʼí Center (3514 Marvin Rd.).

The featured speaker is Pamela G. Senegal, Ed.D., Chief Executive Officer of YWCA Central Carolinas. Dr. Senegal will share community-based strategies to eliminate racism and empower women, highlighting the YWCA’s vital work driven by its mission to eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

The focus on women’s empowerment reflects the conviction that:

"When women participate fully and equally in the affairs of the world... and when they are fully recognized and empowered, then and only then will the basis for universal peace be established.” ~ `Abdu’l-Bahá

Race and Gun Violence

Tiffany Garner, Policy Advocate with Futures Without Violence, along with her colleague Leila Milani, will present compelling work on reducing gun violence and the unique challenges of how that work intersects with racism. Our preconceived notions and bias around fear, crime and its connection to the Black community is investigated and illumined.

Join us Sunday, December 21 for a powerful afternoon of learning and discourse.

2:00-6:00pm at the Charlotte Bahá’í Center

“The purpose of justice is the appearance of unity among men.” — Bahá’u’lláh

Every month we gather... An essential element of the process will be honest and truthful discourse about current conditions of racism and their causes, and understanding, in particular, the deeply entrenched notions of anti-Blackness that pervade our society. 

A documentary on less well-known aspects of King's work will be followed by small group discussion. We'll take this time to review the discussion series over the last 3 years and consult together on how we move through 2026.

"Justice is a capacity of the human soul. It enables each of us to see the world through our own eyes and not through the eyes of others... "