The Veterans of Hope Blog

The Bob Moses Conference is an annual gathering to honor a legacy of learning, justice and collective progress.  The conference, October 11 and 12, 2026, is open to in-person and online participants. This year’s theme is “Anchored in History,...

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Join us for TWO amazing events on HARDING DAY — May 19, in honor of Rosemarie and Vincent Harding, at the Iliff School of Theology. In the morning, at 11am mountain time, Rachel Harding will be in conversation with poet Sonia Sanchez, theologian Rub...

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Last month Rachel was interviewed by Mitchell Atencio about holding on to encouragement in hard times, growing up with movement elders, and her mother’s teachings that all of us are capable of extraordinary things.   Read here to see the full c...

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The April 5, 2023 edition of Black Agenda Report features an open letter by my father first published in 1969 in “Negro Digest” — a monthly magazine of Black literature and scholarship published by Johnson Publications (home of “Eb...

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We are happy and proud to announce that civic leader, educator and community activist, Dr. Rachel Bassett Noel is being inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame! On Thursday, January  13 at 7:30pm mountain time, Rocky Mountain PBS will broad...

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Vincent and Rosemarie Harding were among a generation of scholar-activists powerfully committed to the liberation of Black people and to the transformation of U.S. society toward a more just, equitable, and compassionate multiracial democracy.   On Octo...

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  One night, earlier this month, I listened to the newest podcast in the series The Adoptee Next Door, hosted by Angela Tucker.  Angela is a thought leader, writer and adoptee rights activist who advocates powerfully in support of transracially adop...

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Artist Daniel Minter’s work is consistently wonderful — it teaches, transforms and sacralizes. This article is about Minter’s most recent art projects, including one that involves a ritual meal and poetry in honor of a eugenicized co...

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A new reprint of Vincent Harding’s 2007 essay.  The text continues in the trajectory of Harding’s earlier work — especially Hope and History, the book he wrote as a companion to the great Blackside/PBS series on the Southern Freedom M...

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  This is a wonderful reflection on the benefits of patience, contemplation and attention to the natural rhythms of the world — in teaching and in life.   From the blog of Prof. Nancy Lynne Westfield on the website of the Wabash Center for T...

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