Black in America: Living Behind Enemy Lines
OHF WEEKLY, VOL. 5 NO. 16: Editor’s Letter, “You Can Know Me” by Christienne Leigh Hinz, and a quote by Michelle Obama.
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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?
Finding Empathy
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 36: Clay Rivers on finding empathy when he least expected, Sabrina Bryant reveals Black women’s integral role in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Charles Estacious White’s award-winning “The Tale of Arthur Delacroix,” and a quote by MLK Jr.
Fireworks before the Fireworks
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 29: Clay Rivers on fireworks in Orlando before the fireworks show and a tribute to an LGBTQ icon.
OHF Weekly Names Writing Contest Winners
🎉 OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 20: Congratulations to winners Charles Estacious White and Sylvia Wohlfarth, and all who entered our Equal People short story writing contest
Down the Rabbit Hole
🏆 In this Equal People 2022 Short Story Writing Contest award-winner by Sylvia Wohlfarth, an English teacher wrestles with her prejudice when confronted with facts, family, and firsthand experience.
The Tale of Arthur Delacroix
🏆 In Charles Estacious White's Equal People 2022 Short Story Writing Contest award-winner, an 1860s Louisiana enslaver learns the value of empathy from the inside out
Afrophobia. Yes, It’s a Thing.
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 14: Afrophobia. Yes, That’s a Thing. Clay Rivers on the biggest obstacle to achieving a racially equitable society and its solution.