The Veterans of Hope Blog

What we’re reading now: THEY GOT DADDY: ONE FAMILY’S RECKONING WITH RACISM AND FAITH, by Sharon Tubbs. A multigenerational family story of the Black South, migration north, and the connections between historical traumas and daily life in the 2...

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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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I’m reaching out to you on this day, Monday, July 25, 2011, because—as you may have heard—it’s a very special occasion for me, the arrival of my 80th birthday. Throughout my life, I’ve come to understand that gifts of all kinds were meant to be ...

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Today I am honoring my daddy, Vincent Harding, who passed into glory on this day, five years ago – May 19, 2014. When I think about my daddy and my mama, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, at this juncture of my life, what comes most strongly to my mind is ...

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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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In the text below, Ruby provides a powerful reflection on the danger of the eugenicist (us/them) language of battle in the COVID-19 situation.  Rather, she says, we are in a humanitarian crisis that requires us to treat and value each other with respect...

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SHOULDERS   A man crosses the street in rain, stepping gently, looking two times north and south, because his son is asleep on his shoulder.   No car must splash him. No car drive too near to his shadow.   This man carries the world’s mos...

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The SNCC Legacy Project, a national organization of veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, issued a statement yesterday opposing the racist assaults against Latinx people in the United States.  We at the Veterans of Hope Project are...

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