PRESS 

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“Turnover at SC African American Heritage Commission Raises Concerns,” Charleston (SC) Post and Courier, October 15, 2021

 

“Dismissal from Black History Board Is ‘Strange Injustice,’ Say Ex-Members,” Charleston (SC) City Paper, October 12, 2021

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“Louis Venters's Book on the History of the Baha'i Faith in South Carolina,” Baha'i Blog, May 17, 2019

 

“New Mobile Guide Highlights ‘Hidden Gems’ of SC’s African-American History,” (Columbia, SC) State, April 30, 2017

 

“A Beautiful Symbol for Florence,” Florence (SC) Morning News, August 12, 2016

 

“11 Books to Help Us Explore the Peace-Loving Baha’i Faith,” Huffpost Religion, November 30, 2015

 

“A Balm to Their Souls,” Anderson (SC) Independent-Mail, November 6, 2015

 

“Black History Month Program Offers Florence a Glimpse of Its Past,” Florence (SC) Morning News, February 19, 2015

 

“150 Mark Centenary of Tablet for Augusta,” American Bahá’í, September-October 2014

 

“Bahá’í Faith is Second Most Prevalent Religion in South Carolina,” Florence (SC) Morning News, July 19, 2014

 

“The Runner-Up Religions of America,” Protojournalist blog, National Public Radio website, June 22, 2014

“How the Bahá’í Faith Became South Carolina's Second-Largest Religion,” Charleston (SC) Post and Courier, June 21, 2014

 

“How a 19th-Century Persian Faith Became the Second-Most Common Religion in Our State,” Charleston (SC) City Paper, June 17, 2014

 

“Patriotism, Statue on Display at First Heritage Day in Johnsonville,” Florence (SC) Morning News, August 18, 2012

 

“Dr. Venters Presents at Conference in Israel,” Patriot (Francis Marion University), April 14, 2011

 

“FMU’s Venters Wins Diversity Award,” Florence (SC) Morning News, February 7, 2011

 

“A Time for Reflection: Students, Adults, Educators Ponder the Lessons Left by Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Lake City (SC) News & Post, January 19, 2011

 

“Stories Highlight Historic Francis Marion Tours,” Florence (SC) Morning News, September 22, 2010

 

 

 

COMMENTARY

 

“Truth in Hollywood?: Justin Baldoni on Body Dysmorphia,” Good Men Project, July 9, 2017

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“Dear United (For the Time Being) Kingdom,” Good Men Project, June 28, 2016

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“Lasting Change: South Carolina’s Bahá’ís and Race in America,” Medium, June 17, 2016

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“‘I Love You for Sentimental Reasons’: Musical Lessons of Black Men’s Abounding Love,” Good Men Project, February 23, 2016

 

“From Bosnia to Chapel Hill, Hostility to Islamic Religion Remains in Our Fearful World,” Good Men Project, September 4, 2015

 

“Jim Crow Is Still America’s National Religion...But It Doesn’t Have to Be,” Good Men Project, March 28, 2015

 

“The Burning of Columbia and the Persistence of Confederate Memory,” Good Men Project, March 13, 2015

 

“How a Good Man Battled Racism and Died for It...And Why We Have to Keep Fighting a Hundred Years Later,” Good Men Project, October 24, 2014

 

 

RADIO, PODCASTS & WEB TALKS

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“The Bahá’í Faith in South Carolina and America's Unfinished Business of Reconstruction,” series of three presentations with Layli Maparyan, oneness.chat, December 12, 2020, January 9, 2021, and March 3, 2021

 

Interview on the Bahá’í Faith in South Carolina, “Baha'i Blogcast with Rainn Wilson,” November 3, 2020

 

Interview on The Green Book of South Carolina, “In Black America,” KUT 90.5 FM, Austin, TX, May 25, 2017

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Web talk on No Jim Crow Church, Wilmette Institute, December 4, 2016

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Interview on No Jim Crow Church, “Bahá’í Perspectives,” WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM, Northampton, MA, April 3, 2016

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VIDEO

 

Race Unity in America: An Oral History, July 2019

 

American Bahá’í, “Perspectives: On Oppression,” January 11, 2016

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Association for Bahá’í Studies, panel on "From Oppression to Empowerment," August 2015

 

Interfaith Partners of South Carolina, panel on “Understanding Islam and the Bahá’í Faith,” Florence Library, January 2015

 

McNair Center Symposium, panel on the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Francis Marion University, October 2014

 

 

TELEVISION & FILM

 

Consulting historian, History Detectives, season 10, episode 9, 2012

 

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