Views on racial equity, allyship, and inclusion by Our Human Family
The Reset: When Good Intentions Yield Bad Results
VOL 4 NO 15: “The Reset: When Good Intentions Yield Bad Results,” Kim McCaul on the value of shame as a way forward to connect with our shared humanity and empathy ...
OHF Weekly Writing Contest + Cash Prize for the Winner!
This year’s “Equal People” series is back—with a twist: a cash prize for the top writer ...
Resistance Is the Price of Justice
VOL 4 NO 11: Sylvia Wohlfarth on the discrimination faced by Africans fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, and stephen matlock on the continuous need to push for justice ...
Happy Valentine’s Day
A few inspired words on the transformative nature of love by acclaimed author, poet, and Civil Rights activist Maya Angelou ...
Black History’s Call to Pay Allyship Forward
VOL 4 NO 7: “True Friendship Can Transcend Race,” Dan Hislop on Howard Thurman (mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr.) and the source of his peace in the face of hatred ...
“OHF Weekly” Celebrates Black History Month
We invite you to delve into the lives of notable Black Americans whose achievements have greatly impacted not only Black Americans, but all Americans. ...
Be Like Betty White
In an industry that empowered only white men, Betty White stood up for racial equity ...
The Stephen Matlock Issue
The Stephen Matlock Issue: On Understanding Blackness, How America’s Past Informs the Present, and the Prerequisite for Change ...
The Blurry Line Between Innocence and Privilege
The reality is that our actions and our intentions don’t matter when the result is the harm inflicted upon another person. ...
When Words Fail Us
Can you imagine the chaos and division if words took on new and different meanings w/out warning? It's already happened ...
Distant Strangers
It’s time for us to use our lives to bring us closer to equality, to inclusion, to acceptance, to diversity—and to love ...
Can This Racial Division Be Healed?
White Christians in America have chained themselves into a way of thinking and behaving that is opposed to the grace and example of Jesus ...
We Must See People in Color
Only when we white people can get to the place where we value Black lives equally as we do the lives of others can we say that Black lives matter ...
To My Evangelical Faith Family
If the Jesus whom we follow can love the accepted and the rejected of society, then we can, with his grace and power, also love our neighbors as ourselves ...
Making the Past the Past
For white American Christians, racism is an extraordinarily stubborn sin, resistant to being identified, named as wrong, being called out as wrong, and being expunged from the life of the holy believer ...