Article originally published Dec.19th, 2019 by Community Change as part of its Housing Narrative Project’s ‘Welcome Home’ series on Changewire.com “What are you and your son doing for the holidays?” This question, innocently asked, is an emotional minefield for me and families like mine across the country coping with…

Article originally published Dec.6th, 2019 by Community Change as part of its Housing Narrative Project's 'Welcome Home' series on Changewire.com My understanding of housing policy and the challenges facing millions of Americans in finding safe affordable places to live is firmly rooted in my own often traumatic lived experience. …

I’m a man who painstakingly attends to my mental health every day. This isn’t because I was diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder when I was 31 years old. …

Our world has an increasing reliance on new, ever-changing technology that requires workers to have near-constant flexibility to upgrade, retrain, and retool their skills. …

With an increasingly reactionary attitude from right-wing media personalities, it’s become clear that American conservatives, and those remaining Republicans who coddle them, have lost the political argument. Just during my admittedly brief politically aware lifetime I’ve seen the Republican Party go from people simply disagreeing on policy issues and…

Anyone who’s ever had a hobby, a child, or been in a relationship knows, we value those things we devote time, energy, and money towards. Those things we don’t, we don’t. America’s poor children of color see what we value and it ain’t them. The lip service we pay…

While there has been much debate over why the Democrats lost in the 2016 Presidential election, there was a common thread running throughout that election that has once again reared its ugly head within the Democratic Party. …

Why Improving Education is a National Security Issue “Young Americans’ inability to meet education qualifications highlights underlying issues in America’s educational foundations, with national consequences”. Our current underperforming, racially segregated K-12 public education and “Debt for Diploma” system of funding higher education is not working. This problem is increasingly dominating political discourse and has been well documented…

Brother brother, sister sister If you’re miss or if you’re mister Listen please to this fact Black is black is black is black Lyrics from Black is Black by Jungle Bros (1988) Let me be very clear. There are no degrees of blackness, no illegitimate black people, and no…