Michelle Alexander is a legal scholar, activist and public theologian whose work has long been of great inspiration to the Veterans of Hope Project. She just wrote a beautiful and powerful essay in the NY Times about the need for all people of conscien...
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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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Please join us for a Zoom program in honor of our co-founder – historian, teacher, activist, Dr. Vincent Harding – on Thursday, February 25 at 5pm mountain time (7pm eastern). Come and get your spirits lifted! The program is free but requi...
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Eight days out from the recent presidential election, many folks are feeling the need for encouragement, even guidance from some of the elders of our country’s movements for social justice. There are a number of wonderful video interviews on ...
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This is an interview from 2003 — the PBS series “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly” came to Denver to talk to Rachel and her dad about the way art and spirituality feed struggles for social change. You may enjoy what they had to say. As...
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Dear Folks, The Veterans of Hope Project really needs your support! PLEASE CONSIDER A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE GIFT TO THE ORGANIZATION. In 2016 we developed a new website www.veteransofhope.org with a wealth of resources about the links between spirituality and so...
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Listen 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...
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