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.
Black Women’s Integral Role in the Women’s Suffrage Movement
There are many women who educated other women by using their talents of writing and speaking to make their opinions known.
Losing, Reclaiming, and Reconciling My Religion with My Sexuality
After twenty-two years of searching and trying to make myself into what “I” thought everyone else, including God, wanted me to be, the Lord spoke to me in a manner that was uniquely his own
A Brief History of Race in American Politics
Racist rhetoric is nothing new in American politics.
The Biology of the Heart
For the average male and female couple, making a baby is usually a fun, easy process. It is almost always problematic for members of the gay community, but no less a life goal.
Confederates Weren’t Patriots— They Were Traitors
Those traitors fought to preserve their “right” to own men, women, and children as property, and to do with those enslaved people as they would, up to and including rape and murder.
How to Explain to My Fellow Whites Why We Can’t Use the N-Word
Simply telling white people “you can’t say that” is insufficient. The issue needs to be explained in a way white folks can understand and accept
