The Veterans of Hope Blog

Here is a wonderful description of they way water protectors (pipeline protestors) are creating a community from the rich diversity of peoples who have come to support the Standing Rock Sioux.  #NoDAPL #StandWithStandingRock Read More

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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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We 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...

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  In this 7-minute interview, Jerry Tello, director of the National Compadres Project, talks about his grandmother’s prayers for him when he was a boy and the way our elders and ancestors bless us through their lineages of struggle and love. It’s...

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Dear Friends, It has been quite some time since Gloria and I were in touch with you with in-depth news of the work of the Veterans of Hope Project.  Since our April 2017 commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” address at Riversid...

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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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On February 21, at the Stella Adler Studio in NYC, poet Sonia Sanchez, public theologian Ruby Sales and musician-producer Toshi Reagon joined Rachel E. Harding for a conversation about Remnants and the meaning of spirituality and social justice in 21st ...

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There are rumblings in the land.   Some good news out of Denver, Colorado. Here is the link to two very moving stories of Colorado-based white American women who decided to pay reparations to African Americans for some of the generational misery sl...

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This is a magnificently beautiful song in honor of the Orixá, Nanã Buruku. In Candomblé, Nanã is an elder, feminine, earth-based energy. She is the energy of the primal connection between earth and water, the holy mud out of which life forms and to wh...

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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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