Jameka Haynes • August 26, 2025 Let’s tell the truth: DEI isn’t evil, scary, or negative. But the way it’s being distorted? Whew. Some folks use it to check boxes, push politics, or perform advocacy instead of actually living it. I just wrapped a 6-week Humanizing DEI Group Coaching Experience, and the biggest breakthrough for participants […] The post 🦋 Humanize DEI with Dignity, Empathy & Integrity appeared first on Brownicity.| Brownicity
Dan Berry • August 19, 2025 Lies. Lies. And more lies. How are we going to survive in a world where it’s becoming harder and harder to find the truth? Who can we even believe anymore? I was always taught to trust God’s Word as the absolute truth. After all, Jesus said, “Heaven and earth will […]| Brownicity
Maveah Griffith – June 12, 2025 I cannot be the only one who’s noticed the restored animosity towards social movements. Remember 2020? A year that’s only 5 years in the rearview mirror but feels more like a decade out of reach? The summer of 2020 began with unrest and protests following the murder of George Floyd. […]| Brownicity
Dan Berry • May 27, 2025 I’m currently reading Dr. Jennifer Harvey’s new book, Anti-Racism as a Daily Practice. In the first chapter, she talks about how people often approach her and ask how she became so passionate about racism. That made me reflect on how I’ve been asked the same question. If you’re involved in […] The post Why Do I Care About Racism When I’m White? appeared first on Brownicity.| Brownicity
Laura Marti – March 20, 2025 Visiting antique stores has become a favorite outing for our family whenever we’re on vacation. Wherever we go, we track down the local antique shops. We look for used books, music albums, VHS movies, comic books, vintage clothing, kitchen items and dinnerware, tea sets, hand-crocheted afghans, and old wood furniture […]| Brownicity
Dan Berry • April 08, 2025 The most difficult part of learning is often the unlearning that must take place in order to experience the light of truth. To truly unlearn, we have to be willing to break old habits, question what we believe to be true, and let go of knowledge that has been proven […]| Brownicity
Dr. Kimberly Ortiz-Hartman • March 16, 2025 “What color are you? Where are you from? No, where are you really from? What are you?” If you’re a multiracial or multicultural person, these questions are probably all too familiar. For many, they might seem harmless or even well-meaning—after all, the person is just trying to get […]| Brownicity
Lance Phillips • January 28, 2025 Two pins I gifted myself two lapel pins over the winter holidays. Two pins for two very different purposes. The first pin is a silver and smoky quartz classic lapel pin. It is vintage and delicate and has, as they say, seen some things. When I told my wife […]| Brownicity
Lucretia Berry • January 16, 2025 Tuesday, January 21, 2025, marks the annual observance of the National Day of Racial Healing, a time dedicated to reflecting on the past, embracing the present, and envisioning a future grounded in understanding, justice, and belonging. As someone dedicated to fostering racial literacy and building cultural competency, this day holds […]| Brownicity
Lance Phillips • October 29, 2024 As it happens, a rather famous poet is coming to the college where I teach to read from his work and to address the student body. I was asked to contribute a few ideas about which he could, possibly, speak. In the course of thinking about this request, thinking […]| Brownicity
Nicole Doyley • October 22, 2024 “Not enough. Too much.“ Those phrases preoccupy most adolescent minds. The feeling of being too tall, too short, too loud, too shy, too bookish, too boring or, conversely, not tall enough, not short enough, not bold enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough haunts most people at some time or […]| Brownicity
Lance Phillips • September 03, 2024 I just returned from a week at the beach. From a week watching the ocean encroach on the sand in the guise of its emissaries, the waves. It never fails. Every time I spend time beside the ocean a couple of things come to mind: a poem called “The […]| Brownicity
Lucretia Berry • August 27, 2024 Years ago, a podcaster posed a question that tickled me: “Who in the world sits down to design a course like this… who has the audacity?” At the time, neither of us knew of any course like What LIES Between Us – Fostering First Steps Toward Racial Healing (2016) […]| Brownicity
Brownicity • August 22 2024 On August 22, 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer delivered a powerful speech at the Democratic National Convention that changed the landscape of American politics. Hamer, a Black sharecropper from Mississippi turned civil rights activist, spoke with unwavering courage about the brutal voter suppression and racial violence she and other Black citizens faced […]| Brownicity
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Get ready to rebuild Lucretia Berry • July 23, 2024 Originally published May 24, 2024 by THE REDBUD HYPHEN “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks” Isaiah 2:4 As parents, educators, scholars, creatives, and teacher leaders, we are advantaged to strategically foster education that inspires a culture of authentic […]| Brownicity
Laura Marti – July 05, 2024 The US has experienced multiple waves of immigration as policies changed over decades. One of the waves was in 1965, when Congress replaced the national origins system with a preference system designed to unite immigrant families and attract skilled immigrants to the United States. This bill drastically shifted the source […]| Brownicity
Tracey McKee – April 23, 2024 I, like most white people, can spot flagrant, inhuman acts towards people of color as racist. And most of us know that snide remarks and intentional slights cross the line. But what about the less obvious forms racism can take, like trying to relate to a Black person by sharing […]| Brownicity
In September, the Buffalo Food Equity Network (BFEN) Policy Innovation Lab hosted representatives from four communities for co-learning and storytelling about Black-led food systems. The Lab is funded by Race Forward and includes groups from Buffalo, Albuquerque, Philadelphia, and Atlanta with the aim of supporting leadership of Black and brown communities in shaping climate justice policies.| Food for the Spirit
Adamaah Grayse, a Food Justice Organizer, has added an agricultural extension component to Buffalo Juneteenth Celebration. The extension includes a gallery walk introducing six seedling plants of crops grown by African ancestors. The aim is to enlighten visitors about the relationship between European colonization, agriculture, enslavement, and the ongoing call for reparations.| Food for the Spirit
Fia Cronin • December 23 2023 It’s that time of year, ‘tis the season…whether you celebrate Indigenous People’s Day, Diwali, Hanukkah, Christmas, or maybe you celebrate Pumpkin Spice Lattes…the season also comes with a wide array of emotions that each of us bring to the table. We might have experienced loss and are left with […]| Brownicity
