Scholarships are available for anyone who needs help paying the fee. Please email the Registrar, Niki Daniels, at learn@wilmetteinstitute.org.

This online course is designed to raise the capacity of the participants to understand racial justice and unity, identify the role of Iranian American Bahá’ís, and contribute to building race amity through community building activities, social action and social discourse. This course will examine racial justice and unity in the U.S. from a Bahá’í perspective. Ultimately, participants will acquire the capacity to apply this knowledge to their personal and collective lives. We offer a diversity of thoughts, but do not endorse or advocate specific views of individual authors.

Three areas of capabilities this course will focus on are: 

1. Define the problem/issues (knowledge) 

2. Understand the Bahá'í approach to building racial justice and unity (spiritual insights)

3. Gain skills for building race amity, community building and contributing to discourse (skills for service) 

This course features weekly Zoom sessions hosted by our faculty members in English and Farsi on Sundays from 10 am to 12 noon Pacific Time (1 to 3 pm Eastern). You may also log in to our course website at any time, day or night, to read the weekly course materials and watch the course videos.

Schedule for Zoom sessions

English and Farsi sessions: Sundays, 10am-12pm PST, starting on Sunday 24 September. There will be no Zoom sessions on 1 October (break for Unit Convention) or on 26 November (break for Thanksgiving weekend).

See Testimonial video with post-course comments from four participants in the Pilot Persian Race Unity course below. Click the "CC" button at bottom right of the video for English captions.