The Actual Lives of Black Victims
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 30: Sherry Kappel on the people behind the headlines and hashtags; Jesse Wilson on the elusiveness of racial equality; and William Spivey on the difficulty in acknowledging systemic racism.
William Spivey, a Fisk University alum, writes on politics, history, and race to educate those who have been misled on these matters. Sometimes he might mock a politician. Spivey is fluent in sarcasm.
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 30: Sherry Kappel on the people behind the headlines and hashtags; Jesse Wilson on the elusiveness of racial equality; and William Spivey on the difficulty in acknowledging systemic racism.
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 25: On the nature of cake and convictions; the origins of America’s mass shootings; the sixth anniversary of the Pulse shooting; the origins of Juneteenth; and a special shout-out to just about everyone’s first hero—dad.
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 21: Clay Rivers on another mass murder of Black people; Glenn Rocess on white supremacy's last hurrah; William Spivey on the intertwined nature of freedom.
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 14: Afrophobia. Yes, That’s a Thing. Clay Rivers on the biggest obstacle to achieving a racially equitable society and its solution.
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 12: All who journey to equality follow the same principle: the humanity they see in themselves is identical to that in someone else
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 9: Sherry Kappel on the intersection of Black History, Black excellence in sports, and racism; Jesse Wilson on why we celebrate Hip Hop
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 8: William Spivey on the relevance of Black achievements, turning points in history, and atrocities committed against Black people.
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 6: Clay Rivers on why celebrating Black History Month will always matter and “Rosa Parks: More Than a One-Hit Wonder” by Sabrina Bryant.
The William Spivey Issue: Take a deep dive into the mind of one of OHF Weekly’s favorite go-to guys for Black history, William Spivey
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James Baldwin was under no illusion about America. He saw the good and the evil. The answer doesn’t lie in fixing Black people. Baldwin knew this when he told his nephew, “We cannot be free until they are free.”
Instead of celebrating Juneteenth, we should be talking about how to make things right in Texas and every state for American descendants of slavery