FOR-USA’s Gathering Voices Conversation with Dr. Zoharah Simmons, virtual

FOR USA GATHERING VOICES SERIES

Tues Feb 21, 1 pm Pacific time, Zoom

Fellowship of Reconciliation’s monthly Conversation Series “Gathering Voices.”

FOR-USA’s executive director, Ariel Gold, hosts other activists.

Our February 2023 Gathering Voices conversation will welcome Dr. Zoharah Simmons. Dr. Simmons recently retired from the University of Florida, where she researched Islamic feminism and the impact of Sharia law on Muslim women. She was a civil rights activist, serving as a member of both the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Nation of Islam (NOI) and is a founding member of the National Council of Elders.

Dr. Simmons and her family are the subjects of a new biography “Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey.” That Kirkus describes as “Both personal and with a big-picture view—a welcome contribution to the literature of the civil rights movement.”

Registration link and recordings of previous sessions in this monthly series at https://forusa.org/gatheringvoices/