💛 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…