Dear MPLS There’s a movement being spearheaded by a group of Quakers right now trying to organize a metro-wide Light up the Night tonight Jan 24 2026, not a mass gathering in any one place but to get people out of their houses with candles and flashlights in every neighborhood at 7:00. Please spread the word! | Baratunde Thurston

Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Comet Who Shook Slavery

In 1738, a four-foot-tall Quaker stabbed a book filled with red juice, spraying the 'blood' on wealthy slave-owners during a church meeting. His name was Benjamin Lay, and he was one of the first and most radical abolitionists in American history. Lay was a Quaker who stood just over four feet tall, a little person with a hunched back. His physical stature was matched by the immense size of his moral conviction against slavery. After witnessing the brutal reality of slavery firsthand in Barbados