Education is Elevation

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The Weight of Unfairness: Understanding ADHD Justice Sensitivity Through a Critical Lens ADHD is correlated with justice sensitivity. We have a hard time getting over something being unjust. We feel things strongly. We have a hard time with emotional regulation. We also absorb information like a fire hose, news, data, you name it. Studies have found that ADHD individuals, especially those who have...

The way we talk about data and technology as being an open frontier is still justifying abstraction of Native humanity and Native land the same way it did when it was an actual idea of a land frontier. And in most instances, there is no such thing. It is always a myth. The frontier was never a description of empty land. The frontier was a legal finding. In 1823, in Johnson v. M’Intosh, Chief Justi...

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THE QUALIFICATION WAS ALWAYS A VALVE The government is hiring gamers to run the sky. Not metaphorically. Not as a recruitment gimmick that some intern cooked up and nobody approved. The Department of Transportation put out an ad on April 10, 2026 that opens on an Xbox logo, cuts into Twitch stream footage, cuts into towers and runways and aircraft, and tells you to level up. The application window...

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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. Black people in Tennessee have a unique story, and I mean that in the technical sense, not the greeting card sense. Before I get into the analysis, let me tell on myself the way I told on myself on camera. As a millennial, the first person who made me thi...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. What Actually Happened, Because the Headline Lied to Me Too The Lindsey Graham cake drama I thought was about some random professor at Indiana University. Come to find out, y’all, it’s about Elizabeth Booker Houston. I’ve been seeing these old headlines o...

According to the “As You Sow” report, a company that eliminates or substantially reduces its management diversity programs in response to political pressure, rather than financial analysis, is making a decision motivated by nonfinancial considerations. Think about how wild it is to publicly announce you don’t want diversity, equity, and inclusion. Not to quietly defund it. Not to let it wither in...

Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor in chief of The Economist, sat across from the richest man on this planet at a Texas Gigafactory and asked him something plain. People say that you’re a racist. What is the motivation for doing that? And the man did not say no. The man did not say here is my record, here is my compliance data, here is the internal audit, here is the settlement history, here is what my...

Right now I’m standing on the largest earthen fortress in the United States, and it’s located here in the great state of Tennessee, about thirty five miles down the road from where a thousand mile walk to Memphis begins. It’s a part of Black history that has everything to do with the Civil War. You’ve heard of Gettysburg. You’ve heard of Vicksburg. The real turning point though, it wasn’t a battle...

“Right now, education is trash.” That was the first thing out my mouth when I sat down with Gina Hinojosa, no warmup, no small talk, jumping right into it, because when your state is sitting at the bottom of the country in what it spends on a child and the top of the country in what it spends on a cage, you do not have time for pleasantries. She did not flinch, she did not spin it, she did not hit...

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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. Now y’all already knew I was not gonna let this one slide. Lindsey Graham passed away Saturday night, July 11, 2026, at 71 years old, from an aortic dissection, and before the flags even finished dropping to half staff, Cory Booker hopped on camera Sunday...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Two words that ruin your day: necro-politics. Stick around, because I’m about to prove to you that the United States don’t just manage life, they weaponize death. Peep game, first you got the scholars. In the 1970s, Michel Foucault introduced biopower, th...

This year marked the sixth annual Juneteenth on the East, our first time at the Zoo Amphitheater in Oklahoma City, Lupe Fiasco headlining, me cohosting once again with my folks Mandii B, my son Zane taking up space on that stage like the stage was built for him. On the surface, that’s a festival recap. Underneath the surface, Oklahoma City is a classroom, and the state of Oklahoma is one of the mo...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Communal trauma. Y’all, let’s name it. It is a shared psychological and emotional wound experienced by an entire group of people, not just isolated individuals. It occurs when a catastrophic event shatters the core identity, the safety, the security, the...

Y’all know I watch these interviews so you don’t have to. On June 28, 2026, Barack Obama sat down with Michele Norris on MS NOW for a special tied to the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, ten days after the ribbon got cut in John Lewis Plaza, six days before this country throws itself a 250th birthday party. Timing matters, kinfolks. The semiquincentennial machine is runni...

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The clip went something like this: every American who is a natural-born U.S. citizen is only a couple generations removed from somebody who wasn’t, go back far enough and every single American is the child of a migrant, this is literally the United States of America, so trying to end birthright citizenship is the most un-American thing you could push for. And on the surface that sound like solidar...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The first person to ever call himself the Queen of Drag in the United States was not a reality TV star or an algorithm’s invention. His name was William Dorsey Swann, and he was born into slavery in Maryland in 1860, which means the man this country now w...

Education Is Elevation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Bacon, sausage, ham, and hot dogs — the World Health Organization, the most authoritative health body on the planet, classifies all of them in the same cancer group as cigarettes, and that ain’t no fringe study buried in a corner of the internet, that’s t...

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