Make It Make Sense With Andrinique

In this episode, in the series " How To Vote In Your Best Interest, we dive into how to actually read the ballot from top to bottom. We cannot not skip sections of our ballots because : 1. We don't know the candidates 2. We did no research before hand. 3. We don't understand ballot terminology 4. We just vote down the entire ballot blue or red. We need to be well informed so we are voting for thin...

Prices climb, rules shift, and it can feel like life is happening to you. This episode picks up where last week left off and shows you where your power actually sits. Andrinique teaches what nobody covered in school: how to build your vote around your own priorities, which office controls which decision, what hides on the ballot below the names you recognize, and how to keep a thirty second clip f...

In this episode, Andrinique breaks down what it really means to vote in your best interest ahead of the 2026 midterms and governor races. She walks through how to identify the issues that matter most in your life, compare policy proposals, calculate the trade-offs, examine an incumbent’s track record, research a candidate’s experience, follow campaign money, and determine whether an officeholder h...

In this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique , Andrinique examines the backlash surrounding Sydney Sweeney’s Novig sports campaign and the very different standards women face depending on who they are, what they look like, and whether society approves of their choices. Episode Show Notes: Why criticism of Sydney Sweeney’s sports ad quickly became a judgment about her body, sexuality, and...

Nike once told us, “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.” Well, apparently they meant it. Because the company that once dominated athletic culture has watched roughly $230 billion in market value disappear from its peak. Its stock is near a 12-year low. Hoka and On are taking market share. Nike is trying to rebuild relationships with retailers it walked away from. And aft...

The Lindsay Clancy Mistrial: What the Jury’s Deadlock Means Welcome back to Make It Make Sense with Andrinique. In this episode, Andrinique examines the Lindsay Clancy trial, the legal meaning of its 11-to-1 jury deadlock, and the unresolved question of whether postpartum psychosis eliminated Clancy’s criminal responsibility. The episode also considers the need for better maternal mental-health ca...

A 99 mph derecho tore through Northwest Indiana on August 11, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers. Two weeks later, thousands were still waiting for electricity. In this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique , I’m looking beyond the storm itself. I’m breaking down the scale of the damage, NIPSCO’s restoration response, the financial cost to Gary families and businesses...

Right on the heels of Governor Maura Healey signing the new legislation here in Massachusetts, our state has officially removed its rigid 24-week gestational limits, joining nine other states and Washington, D.C., that handle late pregnancy decisions through the professional medical judgment of a licensed physician rather than an arbitrary statutory week cap. Those other states include Alaska , Co...

Nobody Told You The Democratic Party Was Being Replaced From The Inside Two sitting members of Congress lost their seats this year to people inside their own party that most voters could not name six months ago. In this episode, Andrinique is breaking this down candidate by candidate. Some of these candidates are Democratic Socialists of America members, but some are not. They are running on the s...

Make It Make Sense with Andrinique | Episode 30: The Real Story Behind the DSA's 'Workers Deserve More' Platform A DSA co-chair sat on Fox News and said yes. Yes to abolishing the Senate. Yes to abolishing ICE. Yes to defunding the Pentagon. No hesitation, no walk-back, on camera. This is not a leaked memo or a fringe opinion. It's their official platform, and they just won 35 primary elections ru...

Is Islam taking over American neighborhoods. That question lands in my inbox every week, loaded with fear that never gets checked against anything real. In this episode Andrinique, checks the facts. Five real fights happening right now: Dearborn's Muslim-majority shift, Hamtramck's flag ban under its first all-Muslim city council, the loudspeaker call to prayer battles playing out in two states, a...

Nolan Wells left the mainland with three friends on the Fourth of July. His phone and keys made it  back on that boat, but he didn't. In this episode, Andrinique breaks down the minute by minute timeline of Nolan Wells' disappearance and death on Horn Island, Mississippi, straight from GPS data, police reports, and confirmed reporting. What his friends told investigators, what two separate autopsi...

Your child's brain moves to that bass before their mind ever agrees with the words. Rap didn't just make room for guns, prison, and degrading women in the lyrics. It's conditioning your kids to love all of it. In this episode, Andrinique breaks down what is actually playing in our homes right now, starting with Yung Miami's "Spend Dat" and the debate it sparked with India. Arie and Nicci Gilbert....

Your great-grandparents did not survive fire hoses and lynching so you could brawl in a customs line over a cruise ship seat. That is the conversation we are having in this episode of Make it Make Sense with Andrinique. There is a version of Black America that never makes the news. It shows up to work. It pays its bills. It raises children who understand accountability before they are old enough t...

Research on walking and memory loss keeps landing on the same number, five thousand to seventy five hundred steps a day, tied to an average seven year delay in cognitive decline. On this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique, I break down that research alongside the second factor almost nobody talks about: magnesium. Roughly half of American adults are deficient in it, and the studies tied...

What happens when the people closest to you become your biggest obstacle? In this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique, she is getting into something most people are afraid to say out loud. Family members who speak negativity over your goals. Old bosses who told you that you were not good enough. Friends and peers who planted seeds of doubt right when you were starting to grow. And the ve...

The verdict came down. Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 35 years. And then the Black community showed up, loud, fast, and for all the wrong reasons. Death threats sent to a family that already buried their child. Adults spitting on grieving teenagers outside a courthouse. "F*ck Austin" screamed at minors walking to their cars. All in the name of justice. In this episode,...

You have probably met them. The adult who cannot take accountability. Who makes every conversation about them. Who controls everything and celebrates nothing. Who shuts down or blows up and leaves everyone around them walking on eggshells. Now imagine that person is someone's parent. In this episode of Make It Make Sense, Andrinique is getting into one of the most searched and least talked about t...

If you have ever deleted a dating app before a friend could see it, laughed it off before someone else could make the joke, or felt embarrassed to admit you are on Bumble, Hinge, or Match at 50 plus, this episode is exactly what you need to hear. The stigma attached to dating apps for women over 50 is real, it is loud, and it is completely unfounded. Nearly 35% of all online dating users are now o...

On this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique , we have all seen the videos. Girls on horses, Rolls Royces in front of the projects, with building entrances blocked. This episode asks the question nobody is brave enough to answer: why? We get into the history behind where this performance mentality came from, the research on why Black households spend more on visible goods than building ac...

In this episode Andrinique dives into one of the most talked about and most misunderstood parenting philosophies of the last decade: gentle parenting. What started as a legitimate, research-backed correction to punitive parenting has been hijacked by social media, stripped of accountability, and turned into a performance. And the children raised inside that performance are now adults who cannot ha...

If you have spent your whole life saying yes when you meant no, shrinking in rooms where you should be thriving, and apologizing for things that were never your fault, this episode is not about manners. It is about survival. In this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique, Andrinique breaks down the real science behind people pleasing, why it is classified as a trauma response, the five spec...

On this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique, we are talking about AI. Not the science fiction version. Not the hype. The version that is already in your workplace right now, whether you are engaging with it or not. If you are between 45 and 55, have been working for twenty-plus years, and your response to AI is "I've seen trends come and go," this episode is for you. Andrinique breaks do...

Black women have built empires from kitchen tables. And some of us have been the first ones in the comments tearing those empires down. In this episode, Andrinique takes on one of the most uncomfortable conversations in Black women’s culture: the pattern of Black women tearing each other down. Not as critics or outsiders looking in, but as women who are part of the community and who have seen it u...

This episode is the final installment of the April's  401K Retirement series. In this episode, Andrinique covers the part of financial wellness that rarely gets airtime: the psychological and generational roots of money behavior. We break down how inherited money beliefs form, what financial trauma research actually says about spending and avoidance patterns, and why so many women can learn the ri...