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...
Continue ReadingLast 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...
Continue ReadingYES! 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...
Continue ReadingAs 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...
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 ReadingThis article appeared in the March 2012 issue of Sojourners magazine Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race th...
Continue ReadingOn 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...
Continue ReadingPlease 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....
Continue ReadingDear National Council of Elders Members and Washington, DC Launch Friends & Supporters, Please accept my thanks and deep gratitude for all that you did individually and collectively to make our September 12, 2012 Washington, DC Launch of the Greensbor...
Continue ReadingIn 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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