The April 5, 2023 edition of Black Agenda Report features an open letter by my father first published in 1969 in “Negro Digest” — a monthly magazine of Black literature and scholarship published by Johnson Publications (home of “Eb...
Continue ReadingWe are happy and proud to announce that civic leader, educator and community activist, Dr. Rachel Bassett Noel is being inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame! On Thursday, January 13 at 7:30pm mountain time, Rocky Mountain PBS will broad...
Continue ReadingVincent and Rosemarie Harding were among a generation of scholar-activists powerfully committed to the liberation of Black people and to the transformation of U.S. society toward a more just, equitable, and compassionate multiracial democracy. On Octo...
Continue ReadingOne night, earlier this month, I listened to the newest podcast in the series The Adoptee Next Door, hosted by Angela Tucker. Angela is a thought leader, writer and adoptee rights activist who advocates powerfully in support of transracially adop...
Continue ReadingArtist Daniel Minter’s work is consistently wonderful — it teaches, transforms and sacralizes. This article is about Minter’s most recent art projects, including one that involves a ritual meal and poetry in honor of a eugenicized co...
Continue ReadingA new reprint of Vincent Harding’s 2007 essay. The text continues in the trajectory of Harding’s earlier work — especially Hope and History, the book he wrote as a companion to the great Blackside/PBS series on the Southern Freedom M...
Continue ReadingThis is a wonderful reflection on the benefits of patience, contemplation and attention to the natural rhythms of the world — in teaching and in life. From the blog of Prof. Nancy Lynne Westfield on the website of the Wabash Center for T...
Continue Reading“Schools often do not allow black boys to be who they are. They can feel isolated, feel school is not for me.” Vincent Cobb, co-founder of The Fellowship of Black Male Educators says that African American teachers are more likely to see acting-out ...
Continue ReadingThis is an interview from 2003 — the PBS series “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly” came to Denver to talk to Rachel and her dad about the way art and spirituality feed struggles for social change. You may enjoy what they had to say. As...
Continue ReadingOtis Moss of Trinity United Church of Christ joined a group of over 200 men from the Chicago community to welcome students back on the first day of school at Oglesby Elementary School. The students were delighted to see so many people coming to support th...
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