Anti-Racism Writing From Sharon Hurley Hall in July 2021 — If there’s one theme that keeps recurring in anti-racism circles, it’s that Black people are tired. We’re giving ourselves permission to rest when we need to, and come back to the fight when we’re ready. One of the things we’re tired of is existing in unsafe spaces. The first article…

The statements that made readers of Sharon’s Anti-Racism Newsletter think — In the past month, I’ve been celebrating the one-year anniversary of the launch of my anti-racism newsletter. Sharon's Anti-Racism Newsletter Global perspectives on anti-racism, racism, and race, including essays and interviews by antiracism activist, writer…www.antiracismnewsletter.com My mission was not just to share my perspective on racism as a global citizen, but to amplify others. As well as writing dozens of articles myself, during the year I interviewed and…

Anti-Racism Writing From Sharon Hurley Hall in June 2021 — It won’t have escaped your notice that this roundup of anti-racism articles published in June is woefully late. That’s because a hurricane hit the island where I live at the start of July, around the time I’d normally put this together. Our home escaped damage, but once the three-day power…

Anti-Racism Writing From Sharon Hurley Hall in May 2021 — As I write this, we’ve just passed the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by Derek Chauvin. It’s the terrible event that made so many more of us speak out — though, of course, others had already been doing so for decades. It’s the event that made write about how…

Anti-Racism Writing From Sharon Hurley Hall in April 2021 — This was another month where we couldn’t avoid the realities of racism. As the Derek Chauvin trial wound up, more Black people were getting murdered by the US police — it felt like hunting season, no lie, and that’s even from outside the US. …

Anti-Racism Writing From Sharon Hurley Hall in March 2021 — As I was putting this roundup together, two events of particular note were in my mind. One of these was the Derek Chauvin trial in the US (I hope they throw the book at him for murdering George Floyd, but who knows what will actually happen?) …

Anti-Racism Writing From Sharon Hurley Hall in February 2021 — As you know, I started the year as I ended it: writing about racism. That didn’t change in February. I slowed down my publishing cadence a little, just to spare my subscribers’ inboxes, but still managed to cover some important topics. Articles On the Labeling of Black People “While we’d all like to think that we finally…

Edited excerpt of “Exploring Shadeism” — As the US and the world grapples with issues of racial justice, colorism — discrimination by skin shade — has also been in the spotlight. It’s a phenomenon I wrote about some time back in Exploring Shadeism. I looked at this mainly in the Barbadian and Caribbean context, and also…