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A place to publish beyond the article archive: new long-form pieces and timely commentary. Every item is dated, carries its sources, and passes the same verification gate before it goes live — settled stated plainly, contested labeled and shown.
News held to the same rigor as the archive.
This page exists to publish beyond the 119-article library: new long-form work and timely commentary on the questions facing Black America. Nothing reaches it loosely. Every piece is dated, carries its sources, and passes the same three-step gate as the archive — sourced to real primary records, re-checked against the newest data releases, and approved only once every claim can be traced. We never invent a figure; where a number is not yet confirmed, it is marked data pending rather than guessed.
Where the evidence is lopsided, we state it plainly as settled. Where serious researchers genuinely disagree, we label it contested and show the disagreement honestly. To follow the work, bookmark this page and check the full library — new pieces land here first.
Ranking Every U.S. President by What They Actually Did for Black Americans
A multi-era, evidence-based framework scoring all 45 presidents on documented policy actions — not rhetoric, not party. The first ranking of its kind.
- ›All 45 presidents scored on documented policy, from Washington to the present day.
- ›A multi-era framework — emancipation, Reconstruction, the New Deal, the civil-rights years, and the modern era, each weighed in its own context.
- ›Actions and receipts, never speeches or party label — with every score traceable to the record.
Latest
60 Years Running Black-Majority Cities. Grade the Results.
PoliticsDetroit, Baltimore, Chicago, Newark — poverty, schools, and homicide across 60 years of single-party governance.
The CBC Hasn’t Authored Landmark Legislation in 30 Years
PoliticsThe legislative record from the Caucus’s bold 1971 founding to its current era of symbolic resolutions.
The Black Dollar Circulates for 6 Hours
Economics$1.7 trillion in buying power that leaves Black communities in hours — and what cooperative economics can change.
More from the library
The Schools Are Failing Black Children and the Unions Know It
Proficiency data by district, charter performance, and the coalition that keeps failing schools open.
PoliticsThe Slow Death of the NAACP
From the legal powerhouse that won Brown v. Board to a partisan auxiliary with no economic alternative.
EconomicsThe Welfare Cliff: How a $1 Raise Costs a Family $10,000
The documented marginal tax rates that trap families in poverty — and why neither side fixes it.
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