The Veterans of Hope Blog

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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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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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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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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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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