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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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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In honor of the tenth anniversary of the publication of Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s memoir, REMNANTS, the Veterans of Hope Project and the Iliff School of Theology are pleased to co-sponsor a conversation among poet/activist Sonia Sanchez, public ...
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Back in January, on the Leadership Center for Social Justice Podcast, Rachel Harding spoke with Ry Siggelkow about Remnants, sharing stories about the spirit and the faith that sustained social justice work in the Black Freedom Movement and in her family&...
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One of the great brave and beautiful warriors of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Dorie Ladner, passed on Monday, March 11. Dorie and her sister, Dr. Joyce Ladner, were two no-mess-taking Hattiesburg, Mississippi women who gave their ...
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Video of powerful memorial service for Brother Hollis Watkins Muhammad, one of the earliest SNCC activists in Mississippi who became a lifelong human rights organizer, teacher, mentor and community leader. The program, hosted by Tougaloo College, includ...
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Listen to reflections from Samuel Waymon, Nina Simone’s brother — about the powerful, beautiful, extraordinary song “Why? The King of Love is Dead” that Nina wrote within a day of Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination in 1968...
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A new initiative in Chicago is leading people on a riverine trail of the Underground Railroad in Chicago Read about it here (the writing and the photography are both beautiful):
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The Veterans of Hope Project and the Black Star Project are jointly sponsoring an intergenerational community conversation about the film “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Thursday, March 11, 8pm eastern time. Register here: https://bit.ly/JA...
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In this essay, published Feb 5, 2021 in the New York Times, Michelle Alexander makes powerful connections between tipping and enslavement and calls for a livable minimum wage as a central component of racial and gender justice. Click here to go to New Y...
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