The Veterans of Hope Blog

Back in January, on the Leadership Center for Social Justice Podcast, Rachel Harding spoke with Ry Siggelkow about Remnants, sharing stories about the spirit and the faith that sustained social justice work in the Black Freedom Movement and in her family&...

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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...

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Not long ago, Rachel E. Harding was intereviewed by Barbara Holmes and Donny Bryant on their podcast. Rachel talked about her parents, Rosemarie and Vincent, and their way of being in the world; about their links to many movements and many spiritual tradi...

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  In 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...

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“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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Vincent 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...

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Please 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...

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I. Recently, Rev. Jeri Wright and her father, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, asked me to join them in leading an early morning prayer fellowship.  They have been organizing this informal, online meeting since April, as a service of the Samuel Dewitt Proctor C...

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Today I am honoring my daddy, Vincent Harding, who passed into glory on this day, five years ago – May 19, 2014. When I think about my daddy and my mama, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, at this juncture of my life, what comes most strongly to my mind is ...

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On May 9, at a scholarship fundraiser and awards dinner in NYC, Vincent Harding was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the City College of New York Communications Alumni.  Vincent’s cousin, Frank Paul, Jr. and his wife, Sonja Cherry-Paul were there to ...

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