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Fieldnotes on Fortitude: Resilience in Resistance
About the new book by Our Human Family, the themes, who wrote for it, and why it’s the book for times such as these that you didn’t know you needed.
Our Human Family Publishes “Fieldnotes on Fortitude”
A book for times such as these
OHF Magazine, Issue No. 4: The White Issue
Oppression and White Supremacy in America
Why Organizations Fail at DEI
It takes more than simply hiring someone to address issues within an organization. It takes a top-down commitment to be part of that change.
Losing a White Friend Due to His Racism
What do you do when they cross the line?
The Redux: If Not Now, White Folks, When?
OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 5 No. 34: Editor’s letter on allyship, racial equity, racism, and inclusion; plus a quote by Iyanla Vanzant.
10 Steps to Being an Ally to Marginalized Groups
OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 5 No. 33: Editor’s Letter, “Remember When You Couldn’t Call Out a Racist? I Do.”, and a quote by Oprah Winfrey.
There Is But One Fight
If the disease “is greed and the struggle for power,” then it is greed and the struggle for power anywhere that we must fight.
Did Karma Ever Catch the Emmett Till Killers?
With the death of Carolyn Bryant, the last living of Emmett Till’s killers, can America surrender even a little of her rage in the absence of Till’s due justice?
You Can Know Me
If Black people can develop and refine metaphors to understand the white experience (in all of its constituent complexity, pain and privilege), how is it that white people are excused from understanding the Black experience?
“Fieldnotes on Allyship: Achieving Equality Together”
Our Human Family’s new book “Fieldnotes on Allyship: Achieving Equality Together” is an informal and informative guide to becoming an effective ally.
Farewell Affirmative Action?
While the SCOTUS beat Sandra Day O’Connor’s timetable by five years, we have clearly not gotten past racism ... any glance at the headlines over the past fifteen or more years reveals the ways America is still mired in racism.
Nice Democracy You Have There . . .
OHF WEEKLY, VOL. 5 NO. 24: Editor’s Letter, “White Supremacy Always Deals from the Bottom of the Deck,” “SCOTUS Gone Amok,” “Hope Amidst Hopelessness,” “Patriots in Song and Heart,” “What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?” and a quote by Justice Jackson.
Happy Fourth of July!
—from Clay and Sherry, the OHF Weekly Editors
White Supremacy Always Deals from the Bottom of the Deck
When Black folks say “No” to back door substitutes, double-dealings, and anything less than parity, we are saying, “This is not equality; it is unacceptable, and nothing less will do.”
SCOTUS Gone Amok . . . as Planned and Purchased
Once again, the SCOTUS has shown People of Color in general, and Black people in particular, the naked disdain they are more than willing to exercise against us.
Talking with People About Racism
OHF WEEKLY, VOL. 5 NO. 23: Editor’s Letter, “The Southern Baptists,” “Moral Bankruptcy: The Hidden Cost of Privilege,” “Provincetown: Built by and for the LGBTQ Community,” and a quote by Michelle Obama.
