Over the past few weeks, as I’ve been meeting with young people in a variety of formal and informal teaching and learning sessions in Denver and across the country, my thoughts have often focused on an extraordinary, history-shaping group of high school...
Continue ReadingWe have some exciting news to share with you! You are now able to make financial contributions to the Project through a new online system. Before we share more information on this new way to support us, we’d like to provide news from the powerful ga...
Continue ReadingDr. Vincent Harding’s 79th birthday is Sunday, July 25, 2010. In lieu of presents and cards, please consider a donation to the Veterans of Hope Project. Your gift will be acknowledged and greatly appreciated. To contribute, visit our PayPal Donation pag...
Continue ReadingFrom Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s memoir Before I was born, when the family still lived in Georgia, there was a bad accident at the side of the road. The road from Macon to Leesburg. Uncle Willie Dan hit a light pole with his Tin Lizzy and his wife, ...
Continue ReadingFor a variety of personal and political reasons I have continually chosen to take seriously the deep wisdom shared in 1968 by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of Martin Luther King’s most valued friends, teachers and co-workers. Just months before King...
Continue ReadingThis is an essay I wrote around this time last year. President Obama was trying to get a health care reform package passed and the resistance emerging from some quarters of the country was vituperative and crazy. Ruby Sales and I were having periodic ...
Continue ReadingAs we approach the end of another powerful year and reflect on the recent mid-term elections and post-election struggles in our nation, it seems very clear to us that the work we are doing at the Veterans of Hope Project is even more important now than ev...
Continue ReadingProfessor Michelle Alexander is coming to Denver February 22-24, 2011. A civil rights advocate and litigator, Professor Alexander, in her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, makes a case that racial caste is dangero...
Continue ReadingI was attending a conference on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, a conference focused on the education of black children, when I heard in my hotel room the first raucous news from CNN announcing the murder of Osama bin Laden; then came the words and ...
Continue ReadingI’m reaching out to you on this day, Monday, July 25, 2011, because—as you may have heard—it’s a very special occasion for me, the arrival of my 80th birthday. Throughout my life, I’ve come to understand that gifts of all kinds were meant to be ...
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