The Veterans of Hope Blog

Please see the note below recently posted on Facebook by Tyler’s sister, Jessica Starr. Tyler passed away last Wednesday, September 12, 2012. Cards can be sent to the Starr Family c/o Veterans of Hope Project, 2201 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80210....

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Dear Friends, I’m writing this letter to invite you to participate in an event that’s very important to me, one that I feel sure you will also want to be a part of. I share a birthday week with my dear friend, Dr. Vincent Harding, scholar, teacher, hu...

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Last week I had the honor and pleasure of hearing my friend Vincent Harding and Lerone Bennett speak in Richmond twice. Once was at the Virginia Theological Union whose campus we visited. James Kinney, the Dean, showed us around. Stranger as I am to the b...

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YES! Magazine article – Breakthrough 15: A decades-long revolution to rekindle the soul of urban neighborhoods. Grace Boggs, 96, moves slowly with the help of a walker through her home packed with books, pamphlets, copies of articles, and things printed...

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As we approach our 15th anniversary year of 2012, we thought it was especially important to share with you some of our significant experiences in the Project over the past year. At the same time, we want to acknowledge gratefully the many ways in which ou...

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For 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...

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I’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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On September 14, 15 and 16, at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance will perform the North American premier of Katherine Dunham’s extraordinary and powerful choreography “SOUTHLAND.” Special discount tickets are avai...

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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...

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From 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, ...

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