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.
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Our Human Family Publishes “Fieldnotes on Fortitude,” a Book for Times Such as These
Our latest anthology is an insightful and moving collection of essays that cuts through the chaos and cruelty to show us how to breathe again and nurture the inextricable links between our individual resilience and communal resistance. And it’s coming soon! You didn’t really think we forgot about...
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.
All Black Is Beautiful, But All Black Isn’t the Same
Debunking the myth of a monolithic Black America.
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.
Why Can’t We Acknowledge Systemic Racism?
This article is about those who don’t acknowledge systemic racism—those who may admit that America had a racist past but believe that racism ended long ago.
The Invisible Scars of Microaggressions
Microaggressions are the crimes, impediments, and abuses committed by white people and People of Color because they dislike the color of a person’s skin or they’ve deemed certain racial and ethnic groups inferior to their own
When America Plays the Race Card
We’ve tried the same failed tactics and strategies again and again only to achieve the same tepid results. We’ve tried it all—except for the one mindset we should’ve tried from the beginning.
