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The Money to Get Lead Out of Their Homes Was Right There. They Gave It Back.
Community / Health — REAL POWER.TV There is a poison in the walls of the houses where Black children in this county grow up. Everybody with power knows it. The money to get it out was sitting on the table. And twice this year, the people responsible for spending it let the…
Cleveland Had Them on Camera the Whole Time. It Still Couldn’t Protect the Neighborhood.
Politics / Public Safety — REAL POWER.TV The city watched 133 illegal vehicles take over the East Side from a helicopter, knew where they were and where they were headed, and let them come back the next day and do it again. That's not a failure of information. It's a failure of…
When Courage Costs Something: The Civil Rights Leaders We Quote but Are Afraid to Follow
The Power Desk curates: we quote the civil rights leaders. Would we actually follow them if it cost us something?
Who Owns Our Neighborhoods? The Capital That Changed Everything
The Power Desk curates: Jerry Primm on why local businesses lost to capital access, not competition — and what happens when the outside money leaves.
Can’t Save People Who Don’t Want to Be Saved
We abandoned our Democracy to a wanna-be dictator without a shot being fired. No, it is not about the party. It is the absence of spine.
They Cut the Plumbing, Not Just the Jobs
The jobs numbers are the weather. The CDFI Fund and the MBDA are the climate. Antjuan Seawright named the machinery; here is what it costs Cleveland.
61 Years. That’s How Long We Had a Shield. The Supreme Court Just Took It.
Politics / Voting Rights — REAL POWER.TV Sixty-one years. That's how long Black folks had a legal shield protecting our right to vote and our political power. The Supreme Court just took it away. And if you don't understand what that means, let me break it down — because most of us…
While Trump Says the Economy Is Booming, Black America Is Already in a Recession
By The Power Desk — an RealPower.TV analysis of Antjuan Seawright’s column in The Root and the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Editor’s note: This is the newsroom’s analysis of Antjuan Seawright’s latest column. The reporting and the argument are his; the write-up is ours. Read his full piece at the link below. While the…
Not About Me
Ninety days home from prison, I walked into a park to stop a shooting. It took me until that night to understand it was never about me.
America, We Have a Problem: Our Children Are Paying the Price for a Broken Education System
A youth worker's case against blaming kids for a broken system — and why the fix isn't more testing, it's more truth.
American Medicine Wasn’t Built for Black Bodies. Dr. Gregory Hall Wrote the Prescription.
Health — REAL POWER.TV American medicine was built on a default patient — and that patient was never you. The averages, the algorithms, the first-line drugs: most of it was calibrated on white bodies and handed to everyone else as if biology were one-size-fits-all. For Black patients, that isn't neutral. It's dangerous.…
Cleveland Keeps Its Own Record: Who’s Who in Black Honors Margot James Copeland
Community — REAL POWER.TV Black excellence in this city isn't an accident. It's built — one career, one institution, one record at a time. On August 31, Cleveland gets a night that puts that truth on display. Who's Who in Black Cleveland unveils its 18th Edition with a networking reception at the…
Keep It Real! What Authenticity Actually Means in the Age of the Algorithm
Kenn on why everyone's performing authenticity now — and what actually keeping it real looks like in the algorithm age.
He Found His Whole Voice for Fauci. He Lost It for His Own Daughter.
Commentary Opinion / Ohio — REAL POWER.TV Here's what a man looks like when he's performing. A few weeks ago, Ohio's own Senator Bernie Moreno sat in a Senate hearing and went off on Dr. Anthony Fauci — dropped an f-bomb on national television, leaned all the way in, "who the f***…
WARNING: Reading This May Be Risky for Your Freedom
Two federal documents issued in the past year, read together, build the predicate. The history says what comes next.
Reach Is Not Standing
NABJ gave Stephen A. Smith its Thumbs Down award for a pattern of tearing down Black women. He has reach. What he does not have is standing.
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