My heart skipped a beat when I spotted Vincent Harding’s obituary in the New York Times. I only met Harding a couple of times (although I felt that I’d “met” him long before through his powerful ...

Gatherings to celebrate the life and legacy of Vincent Harding are planned for Friday and Saturday. Harding, a well-known Denver minister, civil rights leader, friend and speechwriter to Martin Luther ...

It is a special kind of sadness that lingers when a hero dies. We remember long afterward the way in which we heard the news. In the days following we find companionship in others who feel the way we ...

Vincent Harding, a historian who was an influential behind-the-scenes figure during the civil rights movement and who wrote a controversial speech for Martin Luther King Jr. that condemned the war in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A memorial for civil rights veteran Vincent Harding will be held this weekend, including an interfaith celebration and stories from friends and family of his ...

Harding died Monday at 82. He wrote several speeches for Martin Luther King Jr., including his controversial 1967 speech opposing the war in Vietnam. Harding spoke to Fresh Air in 1988. This is FRESH ...

Exactly a year before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, he delivered a speech that alienated ordinarily sympathetic politicians, liberal commentators and even some of his ...

Vincent Harding, 82, a scholar, civil rights activist, and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., died of an aneurysm in a Philadelphia hospital on May 19 following surgery the week before. Harding was ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Vincent Harding, who died in May, will receive the Carle Whitehead Memorial Award at the annual civil-rights dinner of the American Civil Liberties Union of ...

The world lost two remarkable men in May, two African Americans who helped shape modern history, yet whose names and achievements remain too little known. William Worthy, a journalist, died at the age ...

Austin City Council Member Ora Houston made it official Monday: She wants Austinites to pick former Democratic Party Chairman Vincent Harding to replace her, as campaigning for the Nov. 6 city ...

Civil rights legend Vincent Harding died this week (May 19). He was 82. Harding was a religion scholar, activist, and sometime-speechwriter for Martin Luther King Jr, and he played a pivotal role in ...