The Veterans of Hope Blog

In 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...

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  Since founding her modern dance institution, the Denver icon has used her art to honor the African American experience—and as an agent for change. Now, as the nation reckons with systemic inequity, Cleo Parker Robinson reflects on her company’s...

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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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Artist Daniel Minter’s work is consistently wonderful — it teaches, transforms and sacralizes. This article is about Minter’s most recent art projects, including one that involves a ritual meal and poetry in honor of a eugenicized co...

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A new reprint of Vincent Harding’s 2007 essay.  The text continues in the trajectory of Harding’s earlier work — especially Hope and History, the book he wrote as a companion to the great Blackside/PBS series on the Southern Freedom M...

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Marcella Pendergrass is a long-time racial and gender justice activist who grew up in Michigan and has been living in Seattle for many years.  She is an amazing fire-woman with a profound sense of justice and community.  She was nurtured in her activism...

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January 14, 2018 conversation with Profs. Clay Carson, Charles Long, Rachel Harding and Rev. Jay Williams at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA  

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  In the photo above, from November 2015, Makota Valdina Pinto — an esteemed elder in the Angola Candomblé tradition — offers popcorn in a rite of cleansing and blessing to participants in an annual march for religious tolerance and res...

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This is such a WONDERFUL resource. Just saw it today. It includes oral testimonies from a range of Black women talking about their lives, their children, their grandchildren and their struggles, joys and insights. You can read transcripts or listen to aud...

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“Schools often do not allow black boys to be who they are. They can feel isolated, feel school is not for me.”  Vincent Cobb, co-founder of The Fellowship of Black Male Educators says that African American teachers are more likely to see acting-out ...

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