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Fieldnotes on Allyship: Achieving Equality Together
Fieldnotes on Allyship: Achieving Equality Together

“Fieldnotes on Allyship,” written by 18 international authors, is an informal and informative guide to becoming an effective ally right where you are.

2020

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Our Human Family

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The Many Lives of Toni Morrison

Always, Forever, Today — Show of hands. Who loves Toni Morrison? Nice! With novels like The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and others — how can you not love the genius revealed in the Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize laureate’s writing. We partnered with a few of our friends — Sylvia…

Toni Morrison

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The Many Lives of Toni Morrison
The Many Lives of Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison

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·21 hours ago

Editor’s Letter: “Florida Is Openly Hostile to African Americans…”

💛 Greetings. Florida, the state of my birth and where I currently reside, has become the tip of the spear for –isms, –phobias, and more. Every week, at least one new piece of legislation is passed that dehumanizes or strips rights from Black people, LGBTQ+ people, women, People of Color…

Florida

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Editor’s Letter: “Florida Is Openly Hostile to African Americans…”
Editor’s Letter: “Florida Is Openly Hostile to African Americans…”
Florida

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Our Human Family

·Apr 28

Editor’s Letter

Our Human Family Becomes a Medium Verified Author! — Recently Medium rolled out a new feature: becoming a verified book author. I am beyond thrilled to announce that Our Human Family, Inc. (OHF) made the cut — thanks to our book Fieldnotes on Allyship: Achieving Equality Together and the authors who made it possible! The process for verification is…

Writing

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Editor’s Letter
Editor’s Letter
Writing

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Our Human Family

·Apr 23

Black in America: Living Behind Enemy Lines

In This Issue: Editor’s Letter, “You Can Know Me” by Christienne Leigh Hinz, and a quote by Michelle Obama — Editor’s Letter Racism. It wears on me. Every other day there’s either some new legislation written to dehumanize the lives of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color or another incident of some white person shooting an unarmed Black person because they were “afraid for their life” — translation: they never had an…

Gun Violence

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Black in America: Living Behind Enemy Lines
Black in America: Living Behind Enemy Lines
Gun Violence

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Our Human Family

·Apr 23

Editor’s Letter

Racism. It wears on me. Every other day there’s either some new legislation written to dehumanize the lives of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color or another incident of some white person shooting an unarmed Black person because they were “afraid for their life” — translation: they never had an…

Gun Violence

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Editor’s Letter
Editor’s Letter
Gun Violence

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Our Human Family

·Mar 10

Et Tu, Ally? The Tragedy of Allyship.

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…

Allyship

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Et Tu, Ally? The Tragedy of Allyship.
Et Tu, Ally? The Tragedy of Allyship.
Allyship

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Our Human Family

·Feb 28

Groveland: Restoring its Historic Black Cemetery

There’s a tangible fear across America that learning about Black history will divide people and make matters worse. Don’t tell the folks in Groveland, Florida. — “If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” — Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Historian and inventor of what has become Black History Month

Black History Month

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Groveland: Restoring its Historic Black Cemetery
Groveland: Restoring its Historic Black Cemetery
Black History Month

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Our Human Family

·Feb 17

Spare Us the Rebranding of Fascism, Love Like Jesus Told You

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…

Racism

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Spare Us the Rebranding of Fascism, Love Like Jesus Told You
Spare Us the Rebranding of Fascism, Love Like Jesus Told You
Racism

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Our Human Family

·Feb 16

Love Letters to the Family

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…

Love

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Love Letters to the Family
Love Letters to the Family
Love

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·Dec 10, 2022

Hate Is a Four-Letter Word

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…

Hate

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Hate Is a Four-Letter Word
Hate Is a Four-Letter Word
Hate

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