Background and related documents

• Next Steps—statements and queries for use by meetings as a follow-up to the Apology's approval.
• Presentation introducing the Apology to Afro-Descendants to the Yearly Meeting for approval, November 17, 2013
• Background document on the Apology giving some of its history and answering frequently asked questions.

Background. In following up to the Apology to Afro-Descendants approved by New York Yearly Meeting at Fall Sessions 2013, the Yearly Meeting's Ministry Coordinating Committee proposed that a series of statements and queries related to next steps toward racial healing be sent to Friends to help us focus our attention on possible next steps. Several meetings have responded to the queries, sending their comments to Ministry Coordinating Committee.