Education is Elevation

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Supreme Court just used Reconstruction-era amendments designed to protect formerly enslaved people as a weapon against voting rights protection. On April 29, 2026, in Louisiana v. Callais , the Court ruled 6-3 that creating a second majority-Black con...

Thank you Reda Rountree (she/her) , LeftieProf , Frances , Jolie , Barbara Shields , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. The World Is on Fire and They Want You to Smile Through It I’m going to be honest with y’all. I struggled to even show up today. Not because I didn’t have something to say — I always got something to say — but because the wei...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Oldest Trick in the Book Ain’t a Trick—It’s a System Let me tell y’all something that’s been sitting on my chest since I watched the internet lose its collective mind over Megan Thee Stallion’s breakup with Klay Thompson this weekend. And I need you t...

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Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. They want us looking one way while they steal everything else. That’s the game. And it’s written in receipts. Let me show you what I mean. Behind me is a graph—data, not opinions—that illustrates something most media outlets won’t touch. In 2025 alone, Fo...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This past week I was at the 3rd annual Black Maternal Health Summit in St. Louis. I learned things that should’ve been required curriculum decades ago. The kind of knowledge that makes you sit back and realize what we’ve been robbed of—what generations of...

Let me be direct with y’all: This story is about conservative contradictions, the trick of time and the hypocrisy of democracy. On April 1, 2025, Virginia passed HB 167. This bill did one thing—it reversed a segregation-era carve-out in the state’s tax code that had been benefiting the United Daughters of the Confederacy and other pro-Confederate groups since 1950. That’s 75 years. Three-quarters...

A ninth grader received the National Geographic Award for a plan to save the Mississippi oyster reef population. Let that sit for a second. Her name is Demi Johnson. She’s from Gulfport, Mississippi, right there on the Gulf Coast where I’m at. And this young lady produced 1,100 oysters that would spawn millions of larvae into the ecosystem. Not in a government laboratory. Not with a multi-million...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I disagree with KRS-One. And I need y’all to understand how much weight that carries coming from me. KRS-One is the Master Teacher. He is the person who taught me that hip-hop was created to be in resistance to the institutional abuse known to the system....

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I need y’all to sit with some numbers for a second. Not opinions. Not feelings. Numbers. In 2025, Fox News ran over 4,000 headlines sensationalizing transgender visibility. In that same year, they mentioned the Epstein files roughly 610 times. That’s near...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Let me tell y’all about the city of Festus, Missouri, because this story right here is the blueprint. The residents of Festus told their city council — clearly, explicitly, on the record — that they did not want a data center built in their community. The...

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Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. When I tell y’all that the conservative contradictions are writing themselves at this point, I need you to understand I’m not being hyperbolic. I’m reading receipts. And this week, we got a whole dossier. Let me set the stage. We’re sitting down on The Ch...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Native Americans are presented to us as a conquered people, but we never talk about how the United States federal government has broken over 500 treaties — and no war was fought. Let that sit with you. No declaration of war. No battlefield. Just paper, pe...

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Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. A man sat on a nationally syndicated radio station in 2014 and told the world—laughing, mind you—that he was sexually involved with a 16-year-old girl when he was 22 years old. His bandmates were right there next to him, giggling. The host was entertained...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I need y’all to hear me on this one. I don’t say things to be provocative. I say things because the data demands it. Right now, Senator Cory Booker is out here on a nationwide book tour, sitting on Meet the Press telling Kristen Welker he’s “definitely no...

Thank you Reda Rountree (she/her) , Mandy Ohman , PJ Schuster , Andrews, Martha , Molly Z , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Huey P. Newton said that power is the ability to define the phenomenon and make it act in a desired manner. Today the phenomenon is this: how does small-town politics spill over into the global? Or, if you flip it, how...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Let me ask y’all something, and I want you to sit with this for a second. Is Jaden Ivey being persecuted for his faith? Or is there a difference between using your love for Jesus Christ and using it to justify hate for somebody else? Because I need us to...

There’s a clip from the 1950s that every single American needs to see. A white woman in Levittown, Pennsylvania, looking dead into a camera, saying the quiet part loud: “I just could not live beside them. I don’t feel that they should be oppressed. But I moved here. One of the main reasons was because it was a white community. And that’s the only place I intend to live.” Let that marinate for a se...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Nick Cannon sat in that car and pointed to individual pardons as evidence that Trump is “good for Black people.” He pardoned one woman and made her a “pardon czar.” And that’s the whole case? That spoke volumes about his politics, because it showed that i...

Thank you Under the Golden Boot , Tamibetcha , Lee , Francisca Michel , The Depths of Justice , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. My co-host, Toya G, and I spent hours unpacking what this means: for the stalled movement for reparations in America, for the complex infighting among Black diasporic communities, and for the very real, documented...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. On March 24, 2026, the United Nations passed a historic resolution. With 123 countries in favor, it officially declared the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity . It should have been a moment of global consensus, a long-overdue ack...