Truth in Service of Freedom

The Fact-Based Intervention for Black America

Evidence-based articles, outcome-based rankings, a verified history game, daily facts, and a free adult reading program — one record, every claim sourced. Where the evidence is settled we say so plainly; where serious researchers disagree we label it contested and show the disagreement.

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119sourced long-form articles
22cities scored on the record
660+cited data points in the rankings
0fabricated numbers, ever
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We don't discuss Black leadership in the abstract.

Every sitting Black mayor of a major American city — named, pictured, and graded on the outcomes their office can actually move, against the U.S. national average. The data, not the narrative.

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The evidence base, organized across ten categories. Each article carries its sources and a settled-or-contested status, and cross-links to the related ranking, dataset, and trivia.

The standard

No fabricated data — ever.

Every statistic, ranking input, fact, and trivia answer comes from a real, citable source — never an invented number. Where the evidence is not yet attached we say so plainly rather than guess. Rankings score leaders only on outcomes the office actually controls; contested causal claims live in separate, clearly-labeled analysis, never as hidden scoring weights. That honesty is the whole product.

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The author

Founded by Timothy E. Parker.

Guinness World Record holder and a 30-year media career — the New York Times crossword era, syndication to tens of millions, and assessment work used by Disney, Microsoft, Warner Bros., and the Smithsonian. Black Intervention is the record built in broad daylight.

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