Baha'i scientist Craig Loehle explains the reasons and classifications of race and prejudice and provides a practical and scientific grounding for the Baha'i perspective on the diversity in the human family.  An excellent melding of scientific and spiritual perspectives on this matter (12 minutes). Download

Louis Gregory reached more people than any other advocate of racial harmony in the first half of the 20th century, says Gayle Morrison, a Baha'i who has researched the life and contributions of Mr. Gregory, an early U.S. Baha'i.

If you’re a member of a minority, and you’re not involved in decision-making at an administrative level, then society is still far from realizing the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., says Phillipe Copeland, a Baha'i in Boston who examines social issues from an African-American perspective on his blog, Baha'i Thought.

If you don't figure out your own identity, "society will happily tell you," says Marianne Smith Geula, a Chicago Baha'i. What society told her in the 1970s was that she was a young, black woman. Or a young, biracial woman, if the person doing the telling was more perceptive.

Baha'u'llah, Founder of the Baha'i Faith, implored people to "Close your eyes to racial differences and welcome all with the light of oneness."

Myron Wilson joined the Air Force to fight the Good War. He joined the Baha'i Faith to fight, and heal from, the racism he experienced as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first group of African-American fighter pilots in the United States and the only group of African-American fighter pilots in World War II.

Dr. Dempsey Morgan, 87, a Baha'i in Bristol, Va., was among the 300 Tuskegee Airmen who were present Thursday, March, 29, to receive a replica of the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor from President George Bush at the Capitol Rotunda. (See related article from USA TODAY).

Before there was Brown v. Board of Education, there was Sweatt v. Painter, a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully contested the "separate but equal" notion of racial segregation.

‘I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.'
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr