SHOULDERS A man crosses the street in rain, stepping gently, looking two times north and south, because his son is asleep on his shoulder. No car must splash him. No car drive too near to his shadow. This man carries the world’s mos...
Continue ReadingLooking for new and creative ways to commemorate Black History Month? Check out the Liberation Calendar — a month long set of reflections, inspirations, and community-building activities for individuals, families, organizations, classes, whoever w...
Continue ReadingVideo of powerful memorial service for Brother Hollis Watkins Muhammad, one of the earliest SNCC activists in Mississippi who became a lifelong human rights organizer, teacher, mentor and community leader. The program, hosted by Tougaloo College, includ...
Continue ReadingWhat we’re reading now: THEY GOT DADDY: ONE FAMILY’S RECKONING WITH RACISM AND FAITH, by Sharon Tubbs. A multigenerational family story of the Black South, migration north, and the connections between historical traumas and daily life in the 2...
Continue ReadingJoin us for a day honoring the legacy of Dr. Vincent G. Harding through music, art, food and conversation. Sponsored by the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. We will be commemorating Vincent Harding’s life and work on the ninth anniv...
Continue ReadingThe 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 ReadingIn October, Iyalorixá Valnizia Pereira, Ebomi Marilene Cruz and Ogan Josuel Queiroz traveled from Salvador, Bahia Brazil for an 8-day residency in Winston-Salem and Greensboro, North Carolina, co-sponsored by VOHP. The elders from the Terreiro do Cobre...
Continue ReadingIn 1964, Rosemarie and Vincent Harding, spent some time in eastern Europe, traveling for the Mennonite Central Committee, sharing insights on theological and social issues from their experience in the Black Freedom movement in the South (civil righ...
Continue ReadingListen to reflections from Samuel Waymon, Nina Simone’s brother — about the powerful, beautiful, extraordinary song “Why? The King of Love is Dead” that Nina wrote within a day of Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination in 1968...
Continue Reading“There is no scarcity. There is no shortage. No lack of love, of compassion, of joy in the world. There is enough. There is more than enough.” – Rosemarie Freeney Harding “I am a citizen of a country that does not yet exist, ...
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