Fieldnotes on Fortitude: Resilience in Resistance
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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.
Doing Right by Black People—and Not Just When It’s Convenient
It’s been a helluva week or two in America (not that most of them aren’t, these days). Just as I was getting my wits together enough to write about Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, we learned about Breonna Taylor getting shot to death.
Michael Che, the Enlightenment, and Whiteness
To ask “what was here before whiteness” is to open the more dangerous question: what had to be eliminated, for this way of organizing reality to appear natural.
What Does Community Look Like?
It looks like the small town depicted in HGTV’s Home Town, with hosts Ben and Erin Napier leading the charge for home renovation, equality, and inclusion.
Love One Another
Say what you want about Jesus, but one thing you can not deny is that he was compassionate.
The Heroes of the Reconstruction Era and the Harlem Renaissance
Despite hardships, disenfranchisement and racial violence, Black communities and businesses continued to persevere and thrive.
Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon” Immortalizes Middle Passage Survivor
Nothing prepares you for the story of Oluale Kossula — who was given the slave name of Cudjo Lewis
