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Equal Ground Suing Election Officials with the Threat to Voting Rights

     The struggle of systemic racism in 2022 has intensified, and many Americans refuse to discuss the threat to voting rights, civil rights, and human rights. As millions of Americans spend hours glued to their television and cell phones watching the January 6th hearing, we almost lost our democracy, because of racism, discrimination, and criminality. There are 5 Proud Boys and 10 Oath Keepers who have been charged with seditious conspiracy. […]

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A world without money

     Climate change and environmental destruction will prevail if money prevails as the god that national leaders (and almost all the rest of us) worship, or don’t know how not to worship.  Part of indigenous wisdom is not being under the control of this civilized force.  What would a world without money — or a world that saw and understood money differently — look like? […]

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This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Black Wall Street

     In 2020 alone, we lost 41% of Black businesses between the months of February-April. Many of our brick-and-mortar mainstays didn’t survive the economic shutdown, particularly those who weren’t sufficiently tech-enabled. Many of those mom-and-pop shops or small-to-medium size enterprises (SME) have been subsumed under the new everyday economy. The everyday economy is now almost entirely online, and the central reason we have to tech-enable every Black business at little to no cost. […]