The Veterans of Hope Blog

On February 12, Dr. Charles H. Long, a distinguished historian of religions passed in North Carolina.  Dr. Long was an extraordinary scholar whose unparalleled writings, lectures and conversations helped form several generations of academics in the areas...

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Came across this video today.  Writer/Activist Ashley Yates describes it this way: “Black art made by Black people from with real love for other Black folks. No exploitation, just storytelling with textured depictions of our people that lack clich...

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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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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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As part of our ongoing collaboration with the Terreiro do Cobre Candomblé community in Salvador, Bahia, we are hosting three Afro-Brazilian ritual leaders and activists this summer – Iyalorixá Valnizia Pereira, Ebomi Marilene de Jesus Cruz and Ogãn C...

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On May 9, at a scholarship fundraiser and awards dinner in NYC, Vincent Harding was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the City College of New York Communications Alumni.  Vincent’s cousin, Frank Paul, Jr. and his wife, Sonja Cherry-Paul were there to ...

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Dear Friends, It has been quite some time since Gloria and I were in touch with you with in-depth news of the work of the Veterans of Hope Project.  Since our April 2017 commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” address at Riversid...

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This is a magnificently beautiful song in honor of the Orixá, Nanã Buruku. In Candomblé, Nanã is an elder, feminine, earth-based energy. She is the energy of the primal connection between earth and water, the holy mud out of which life forms and to wh...

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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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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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