African America’s tradition of fighting every injustice is noble, but it has come at a price. As rallies and headlines center on Palestine, Haiti and Sudan slip into silence. Haiti, the world’s first Black republic, is unraveling under gang rule and political collapse. Sudan’s war has forced nearly 19 million children out of school, a catastrophe with generational consequences. These are crises where African American advocacy could shape U.S. policy, strengthen HBCU partnerships, and reaffirm Pan-African credibility. Yet scarce resources—political, financial, and institutional—are being poured into causes where the likelihood of impact is minimal. History will not judge African America by how loudly it spoke for others, but by whether it stood with its own when Haiti and Sudan called out for help. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2025
African America’s Obsession With Peace Makes It Unprepared For A World At War
African America must face the sobering truth that peace without power is nothing more than submission. The world is already in conflict, from domestic agendas like Project 2025 to foreign policies that destabilize nations across the Diaspora, and sentiment will not shield us from their consequences. If we are serious about survival, then our task is clear: build institutions with discipline, fund war chests that can defend our interests, and forge alliances that multiply our strength. Peace will never be given freely; it must be secured by those prepared to enforce it. Continue reading
The Death of Expertise in America: Why Loud and Wrong Now Trumps Quiet and Learned
America has entered a cultural moment where opinion outweighs evidence, and loudness overshadows learning. Expertise, once a cornerstone of democracy, is now ridiculed and sidelined in favor of uninformed conviction. For African American institutions, the stakes are especially dire: HBCU scholars and policy experts are drowned out in a society that prizes noise over nuance. Loud and wrong has become the new standard, while quiet and learned is treated as elitist. If America continues to dismiss expertise, African American institutions must hold even tighter to it, weaponizing knowledge as a form of power and protection in a world where freedom itself depends on truth. Continue reading
From Cell Blocks to Stock Blocks: How Billionaires Mirror the Stanford Prison Guards
In 1971, a handful of college students playing guards in a basement “prison” quickly turned their authority into abuse. Half a century later, the billionaire class wields power on a scale those guards could never imagine—yet the psychological patterns are eerily similar. In both cases, authority is assigned, not inherently earned. Both operate in structures that reward dominance, insulate from consequences, and reduce human beings to numbers. The Stanford Prison Experiment ended after six days when an outsider intervened. The billionaire economy has no such outsider, and the cellblock they oversee has no walls—only an architecture of dependency that the rest of society lives within. Continue reading
Unforgotten Kin: How African American Institutions Can Aid the Resilience of Sudan and Haiti
Sudan and Haiti are not charity cases. They are warnings—vivid illustrations of what happens when Black sovereignty is allowed to bleed out in silence. And yet they are also opportunities, not for rescue, but for reunion. For too long, African American institutions have operated as domestic actors inside a global system that marginalizes people who look like them abroad. That must end. The future of Black global power will not be written in the halls of the United Nations or in G7 briefings—it will be shaped in the partnerships forged between Jackson, Mississippi, Port-au-Prince, and Khartoum. What the world refuses to build for Black nations, African American institutions must now choose to build with them. Continue reading
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