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 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 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 ReadingAn excellent conversation between John Yang of Asian Americans Advancing Justice and Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund about connections and complexities in the relationship of African Americans and Asian Americans; and our shared struggles ...
Continue ReadingThe Veterans of Hope Project and the Black Star Project are jointly sponsoring an intergenerational community conversation about the film “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Thursday, March 11, 8pm eastern time. Register here: https://bit.ly/JA...
Continue ReadingPlease join us for a Zoom program in honor of our co-founder – historian, teacher, activist, Dr. Vincent Harding – on Thursday, February 25 at 5pm mountain time (7pm eastern). Come and get your spirits lifted! The program is free but requi...
Continue ReadingIn this essay, published Feb 5, 2021 in the New York Times, Michelle Alexander makes powerful connections between tipping and enslavement and calls for a livable minimum wage as a central component of racial and gender justice. Click here to go to New Y...
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 ReadingIn the text below, Ruby provides a powerful reflection on the danger of the eugenicist (us/them) language of battle in the COVID-19 situation. Rather, she says, we are in a humanitarian crisis that requires us to treat and value each other with respect...
Continue ReadingThe SNCC Legacy Project, a national organization of veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, issued a statement yesterday opposing the racist assaults against Latinx people in the United States. We at the Veterans of Hope Project are...
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