Calling All Poets to Tapestry
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OHF Weekly’s Best of 2023
OHF WEEKLY, VOL. 5 NO. 44: Our year-end compilation of 2023’s top articles.
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?
Black History Yesterday, Today, and Forever
OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 6 No. 3: On Black History writ large and small in the world and in our lives.
Why Black History Month 2024 is the Most Important Ever
We are increasingly seeing school boards removing books for review based on organized complaints from parents who mostly haven’t read the books.
Are You Old, Daddy?
Parents’ opinion of diversity — age, race, and sexual orientation, for example — inform our children’s ability to manage the stress of the U.S.’s culture wars.
Calling All Poets to Tapestry
Tapestry, a new section of OHF Weekly devoted to poetry, celebrates both our similarities and differences, but most of all our shared humanity.
Liberals, Allies, and Other Misnomers
OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 6 No. 2: Editor’s Letter: “Liberals, Allies, and Other Misnomers,“ “Diversifying Citizen Science Projects,” “The Country That Cried Wolf,” “Calling all Poets to Tapestry,” and a Japanese proverb.
Diversifying Citizen Science Projects
Citizen science projects tend to attract white, affluent, well-educated volunteers — here’s how we recruited a more diverse group to identify lead pipes in homes.
The Country That Cried Wolf
If regard for genocide and antisemitism are made out to be no more than manipulations for gain, who will listen when the wolf stands at the door?
Racial Equity, Allyship, and Inclusion in 2024
OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 6 No. 1: Editor in Chief Clay Rivers on the fight for racial equity in 2024; Swahili’s history in Africa, and chocolate’s bittersweet U.S. history.
How Swahili Became Africa’s Most Spoken Language
Over two millennia, Swahili has built bridges among people across Africa and into the diaspora.
OHF Weekly’s Best of 2023
OHF WEEKLY, VOL. 5 NO. 44: Our year-end compilation of 2023’s top articles.
Oppression in the Kitchen, Delight in the Dining Room
At one plantation museum in Virginia, the story of enslaved chocolatier Caesar shows the oppression that lay behind the elites’ culinary treat.
Increasing Racial Diversity without Affirmative Action
The author of a new book on affirmative action in higher education discusses how colleges might still be able to become more diverse now that affirmative action has been banned.
