This article appeared in the March 2012 issue of Sojourners magazine Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race th...
Continue ReadingThis article appears in the February 2012 issue of Sojourners magazine Southwest Georgia is where Lee, Terrell, Dougherty, Schley, and Sumter counties rub up against each other in the Flint River basin, and where creeks with names like Kinchafoonee and Mu...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 ReadingProfessor Michelle Alexander is coming to Denver February 22-24, 2011. A civil rights advocate and litigator, Professor Alexander, in her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, makes a case that racial caste is dangero...
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 Reading