Over the past few weeks, as I’ve been meeting with young people in a variety of formal and informal teaching and learning sessions in Denver and across the country, my thoughts have often focused on an extraordinary, history-shaping group of high school...
Continue ReadingFrom Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s memoir Before I was born, when the family still lived in Georgia, there was a bad accident at the side of the road. The road from Macon to Leesburg. Uncle Willie Dan hit a light pole with his Tin Lizzy and his wife, ...
Continue ReadingFor a variety of personal and political reasons I have continually chosen to take seriously the deep wisdom shared in 1968 by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of Martin Luther King’s most valued friends, teachers and co-workers. Just months before King...
Continue ReadingAs we approach the end of another powerful year and reflect on the recent mid-term elections and post-election struggles in our nation, it seems very clear to us that the work we are doing at the Veterans of Hope Project is even more important now than ev...
Continue ReadingI was attending a conference on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, a conference focused on the education of black children, when I heard in my hotel room the first raucous news from CNN announcing the murder of Osama bin Laden; then came the words and ...
Continue ReadingI’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 ...
Continue ReadingDear 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...
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