Aishah Shahidah Simmons is coming to Denver, March 26 and 27 as the Rachel Noel Visiting Professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver! Aishah is an award-winning Black feminist lesbian documentary filmmaker, activist, cultural worker and writer. H...
Continue Reading – with Ruby Sales and Michelle Alexander at Riverside Church in NYC, April 4, 2017 The Veterans of Hope Project joins the Iliff School of Theology and Riverside Church for a commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s â...
Continue ReadingMy father wrote this two-page statement on immigration in 2008.  He used his experience as a historian and the commentary of his friend and comrade, Rev. Phil Lawson, to reflect on connections between the fugitive ancestors of African Americans and t...
Continue ReadingDear 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...
Continue ReadingThis 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...
Continue ReadingCOME TO THE FOLDING CHAIR SIT-INÂ with RUBY SALES and SISTERS IN STRUGGLE in PHILADELPHIA, DEC 16 and 17 In response to voter suppression and other illegal acts of disenfranchisement that handed Donald Trump a victory he did not earn, Sisters in Struggle ...
Continue ReadingCheck out this 10 minute audio interview with astrophysicist Duane Hamacher discussing the extraordinary knowledge that Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Torres Strait Islands have about the universe and the galaxies. Â “Western science as fa...
Continue ReadingDuring WWII, the US government developed concentration camps in several western states in which they imprisoned thousands of Americans of Japanese descent.  Photographer, Dorothea Lange (famous for her work on depression-era rural whites and migrant fam...
Continue ReadingMakota Valdina Pinto is a native of Salvador, Bahia Brazil and an elder in the Kongo-Angola tradition of Afro-Brazilian Candomblé. She is an environmental justice activist, a specialist in ritual and herbal healing, and an well-respected grassroots hist...
Continue ReadingDear Friends, Please consider supporting The Veterans of Hope Project on or after #GivingTuesday. We are happy to report that the Project is planning (along with the Iliff School of Theology and Riverside Church in New York) an event to commemorate the 50...
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