For generations, success in America has been quietly measured by how far we can distance ourselves from our Blackness. A better neighborhood meant a whiter one

True liberation starts in the mind. Integration taught us to seek validation. Liberation teaches us to seek vision.

Access means being allowed into someone else’s space. Ownership means building your own.

We picked the cotton. We built the railroads. We laid the foundation of America’s wealth. But when it came time to reap the benefits, we were locked out. 

When Kendrick Lamar took the stage at Super Bowl LIX and declared, “The revolution is about to be televised,” he said a lot in one sentence.

What if budgeting was seen not as a limitation, but as a tool for liberation?