Views on racial equity, allyship, and inclusion by Our Human Family
Is God Love?
VOL 4 NO 18: Clay Rivers, John Metta, Michael Greiner, and Rebecca Hyman tackle love in Christianity, surviving and thriving as a Black person in white America, the benefits of restorative justice, and the origins of whiteness ...
Shame as a Path to Healing Racism
Shame has a bad reputation. It may be just what we need to inspire us to take practical actions to undo racism and other systemic inequities ...
Afrophobia. Yes, It’s a Thing.
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. ...
Racism and White Privilege at the Ukrainian Border
Black people living, studying, and working in Ukraine flee to border countries as refugees but face segregation, racism, and abuse ...
The Glenn Rocess Issue
VOL 4 NO 3: Glenn Rocess’ OHF Family Tree interview in which he explains how leaving racism meant leaving his family and the rippling effects of Sidney Poitier’s inspiring and transcendent life ...
The Anti-Racist Life
VOL 4 NO 2: The third and final installment of Sylvia Wohlfarth’s series on Frederick Douglass’s adventures in Ireland ...
It’s Not Enough that the Judicial System “Works”
To deny that Black people receive a different brand of justice than white people is engaging in intellectual dishonesty and a feeble attempt at moral naiveté ...
Not Guilty?! If That Had Been a Black . . .
The Rittenhouse verdict and the racism of America’s dual justice system ...
Frederick Douglass: An American in Ireland (Part II)
Frederick Douglass lectured on anti-slavery, temperance, women’s rights, racism, and social justice for all. He also edited and owned newspapers ...
Frederick Douglass: An American in Ireland (Part I)
The most celebrated Black man of his era, Frederick Douglass was also the most photographed American of any race in the 19th century ...
Respect and Love
We need to remember everyone is trying to figure out this life. Everyone has challenges. Everyone struggles. Everyone is simply human ...
The Blurry Line Between Innocence and Privilege
The reality is that our actions and our intentions don’t matter when the result is the harm inflicted upon another person. ...
The Powerful Divide So They Can Conquer
When people of any background sought to improve their circumstances at the expense of the superrich, those elites appealed to racism to stop any threat to their status ...
The Consequences People of Color Are the First to Suffer
When governments fail to condemn racist behaviour, People of Colour are left to face the grotesque and vile results ...
On “The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t“ and Other Mistaken Identities
When people insist upon an ethnic identity, how do we know to believe people versus when to be skeptical ...