Since high school, Dixon Peay has been involved with a variety of performances, especially musicals and dramas that showcase cultural diversity. She is a co-founder of the Connecticut Baha'i Chorale and a member of the Northeast Regional Baha'i Gospel Choir. She lives in Windsor, Conn., and earned a bachelor of arts degree in Economics from Yale University, and a master of public administration degree from the University of Hartford. We hope that they feel empowered to do something concrete, because real change and race unity will occur in the kitchens and living rooms of ordinary people, not in the halls of justice. Friendship is the laboratory where all the book learning and wishes and hopes and mistakes and cultural biases are played out.
Friendship is the only true place where prejudice can disappear.
Although the performers both regard racism as the most challenging issue facing America today, the message of Amazing Grace is one of hope. Although racism is often regarded as a problem that cannot be solved, audiences have left performances of Amazing Grace feeling optimistic that true unity, within diversity, is possible and that everyone can help make it happen. Amazing Grace is sponsored by the URI Multicultural Center, the Rhode Island Baha'i Race Unity Committee, the South County Coalition Against Racism, and the South County Interfaith Council. All rights reserved.