Opinion
Not About Me
Ninety days home. A fight in the park, a gun under the bleachers, and children thirty feet away — and a man who got out of the car anyway.
The Day I Realized Jay-Z Was Never Fighting for Us
A letter from a disappointed Black millennial who grew up seeing Jay-Z's ownership-first philosophy as a blueprint for collective Black liberation. Anthony Simmons traces the moments that changed his mind — from lyrics that once sounded like solidarity to business deals that started to look like something else — and asks whether the version of success Jay-Z sold Black America was ever meant to be shared.
Let Me Teach You The Rich Mindset (It Has Nothing To Do With Money)
Basheer Jones thought he understood poverty until he traveled through villages in India and Gambia — and found more joy, warmth, and community there than he'd seen in years of chasing wealth back home. In his first piece for Real Power TV, he makes the case that what looks like American wealth is often 'American poverty' in disguise: bigger houses, more cars, closets full of things, but no peace. It's a challenge to rethink what actually makes a life rich.
Protecting Our Future
Retired Judge Michael L. Nelson, Sr. has spent decades as a Cleveland defense attorney, reviewing the autopsy photos and coroner's reports that come with unprovoked violence in his own community. As a father and grandfather, he's just as afraid of the predator on the street as he is of the racist cop — and he says both threats trace back to the same unraveling: broken families, failing schools, and churches that stopped providing moral clarity. He lays out five pillars that rebuilt Black Cleveland before, and argues they're the only thing that will do it again.
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