This 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 ReadingThis article appears in the February 2012 issue of Sojourners magazine Southwest Georgia is where Lee, Terrell, Dougherty, Schley, and Sumter counties rub up against each other in the Flint River basin, and where creeks with names like Kinchafoonee and Mu...
Continue ReadingThe Veterans of Hope Project, the Iliff School of Theology and the Harding family are jointly sponsoring a memorial weekend in honor of Vincent Gordon Harding on July 25 and 26 in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Harding, who passed on May 19, 2014, was an historian...
Continue ReadingInterview with local Denver activist-minister Anne Dunlap – who talks about her family and Vincent Harding as inspirations for her racial justice work. Read More
Continue ReadingVincent 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...
Continue ReadingA new initiative in Chicago is leading people on a riverine trail of the Underground Railroad in Chicago Read about it here (the writing and the photography are both beautiful):
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, ...
Continue ReadingWe are happy and proud to announce that civic leader, educator and community activist, Dr. Rachel Bassett Noel is being inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame! On Thursday, January 13 at 7:30pm mountain time, Rocky Mountain PBS will broad...
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 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...
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