My Reflections on Racism: An Irish Approach
Educator and poet Sylvia Wohlfarth shares her thoughts on racism in light of Ireland’s plans to become free of racial discrimination.
Sylvia Wohlfarth
Half-Irish, half-Nigerian, Sylvia is a social anthropologist and English teacher in Ireland. Her creative nonfiction writing and poetry focuses on social injustice, and initiating change.
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“Frederick Douglass”
A Tapestry poem by Sylvia Wohlfarth
OHF Weekly Names Writing Contest Winners
🎉 OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 20: Congratulations to winners Charles Estacious White and Sylvia Wohlfarth, and all who entered our Equal People short story writing contest
Down the Rabbit Hole
🏆 In this Equal People 2022 Short Story Writing Contest award-winner by Sylvia Wohlfarth, an English teacher wrestles with her prejudice when confronted with facts, family, and firsthand experience.
Resistance Is the Price of Justice
OHF WEEKLY, 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
Racism and White Privilege at the Ukrainian Border
Black people living, studying, and working in Ukraine flee to border countries as refugees but face segregation, racism, and abuse
Frederick Douglass: An American in Ireland (Part III)
The third and final installment of Sylvia Wohlfarth’s series on Frederick Douglass’s adventures in Ireland.
The Anti-Racist Life
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 2: The third and final installment of Sylvia Wohlfarth’s series on Frederick Douglass’s adventures in Ireland
The Sylvia Wohlfarth Issue
VOLUME 3 NUMBER 42: The Sylvia Wohlfarth Issue: On her Nigerian and Irish roots, her take on America as a mixed-race woman in Europe, and her hopes for our global future
Frederick Douglass: An American in Ireland (Part II)
Frederick Douglass lectured on anti-slavery, temperance, women’s rights, racism, and social justice for all. He also edited and owned newspapers.
Frederick Douglass: An American in Ireland (Part I)
The most celebrated Black man of his era, Frederick Douglass was also the most photographed American of any race in the 19th century.
Shine the Light
We may be oppressed, but we have power to improve the world