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?
What “Benefits” Accrued to the People Who Gained Skills as Enslaved People?
Depending on where they were, formerly enslaved people could indeed utilize those skills, but it rarely worked out well for even the most skilled among them.
With Racism, Absolution Is Not the Solution
Some of us are trying to share the reality, ramifications, and human costs of racism. And others aren't looking to problem solve. They’re looking to be set free of any responsibility for the problem.
How Do “You” Vote?
OHF WEEKLY, VOL. 5 NO. 27: Editor’s Letter, “Visiting the Free State of George Floyd,” “Humanity on Trial in Minneapolis,” “It’s Not About You. It was Never About You,” a little history about Ocoee, and a quote by Colin Powell.
Visiting the Free State of George Floyd
In the Free State of George Floyd, the freedom mentioned is more aspirational than real. Black people—and Minnesotans—are no better off than before.
Inclusion > Diversity
OHF WEEKLY, VOL. 5 NO. 26: Editor’s Letter, “What Ideologues Don’t Want You to Know about Immigration,” Write with Us, and a quote by Zora Neale Hurston.
What the Ideologues Don’t Want You to Know about Immigration
The question of immigration is one of whether we as human beings will allow the better angels of our nature to overcome the biases we inherited from our forebears.
Ending Affirmative Action Hurts Everyone
OHF WEEKLY, VOL. 5 NO. 25: Editor’s Letter, “Farewell Affirmative Action?” and a quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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.
