Editor’s Letter, Our Human Family — Black people are all too familiar with the mercurial nature of would-be allies. It’s a predictable set of behaviors that often ends with the potential ally throwing in the towel at the most inopportune time for the people they were supporting, thus leaving them in worse shape than before the…

Editor’s Letter I’ve noticed a trend with those who subscribe to the tenets of Christo-Fascism. They tend not to come up with an original idea of their own but have a penchant for co-opting terms and repurposing them for less-than-honorable deeds. Take for instance “woke.” Black folks first coined the term in…

Editor’s Letter This Valentine’s Day we’ve curated five articles by our writers that explore divine love, increasing one’s ability to love, love as a form of justice, what love without walls or preconditions looks like, and love in action — all through the lenses of racial equity, allyship, and inclusion. It’s definitely…

OHF Weekly, Volume 4 Number 49 — Letter from the Editor In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated: “ . . . I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s…

The Prompt Every New Year’s Eve millions of people usher out the old year at midnight by singing the first verse and chorus of Scottish poet Robert Burns’ 1788 poem set to a Scots folk tune, “Auld Lang Syne.” The phrase translates roughly to for the sake of old times. It’s often…

Hi there, Salty. And thanks for commenting. But you’ve quite successfully veered off topic. Regarding the celebration of Thanksgiving as related to American Indians, this essay is straightforward in what it addresses— 1. making the “leap from the harvest feast of 1621 to Thanksgiving 2022 without considering the impact of…