Toxic Emissions According to long time environmental activist Peggy Shephard, co-founder and executive director of We Act, environmental racism is the intentional targeting of pollution in communities of color and low income.      Shephard explains that this is because “most low income communities of color are less informed, they vote...

The idea of Race is one very familiar to everyone today in the early 21st century, but it wasn’t always the case. In fact, the idea of race is relatively new.      Jeremy Helligar, writing in July 2020 for Reader’s Digest states, “We tend to think of race as a...

Genocide:    “the deliberate extermination of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic, racial, political, national or cultural group.” In the minds of many the word genocide may only be applied in cases where the genocidal intent is successfully completed, but this isn’t actually the proper...

In 1938, Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith (1921–1957) wrote a series of letters to the American Bahá’í community later published under the title of The Advent of Divine Justice.      Throughout his work, he made reference to Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í movement and to his...