Change is local. I know that for certain and when Thomas and I decided to branch out to create local publications throughout the East Coast and eventually nationally, I caught so much resistance and flack from my own people. "You're not from here". "You’re gonna fail". No, I'm not from Wyandanch but Thomas is and I feel like we have final...

​There is such bondage in ignorance. The education plantation is endless if you can’t master the basics. The basics are reading and math. Our schools have become the worst plantational system, leaving so many in the cracks. You feel trapped in “wanting to know” but you can’t escape to a place of “how to know”. I can remembe...

​We are truly a nation divided; divided by race, divided by gender, divided by class, divided by religion, divided by sexual preference to name a few. And as we coexist in this great divide, there is often an anomaly of sorts; a place where everyone can go and agree that this shouldn’t be. That place was at the memorial service of Investi...