Opinion

President Trump’s recent Fostering the Future initiative marks one of the most significant federal efforts in decades to modernize child welfare data systems and strengthen family-based care models. It is both an opportunity and a call to responsibility. The message is unmistakable: if states want to preserve children’s connections to family—including siblings and kin—they must modernize their data systems, measure the right outcomes, and hold themselves accountable for keepi

In 2019, I ran for mayor of San Diego with a message rooted in fiscal realism and civic imagination. The key to solving homelessness and unaffordable housing isn’t more subsidies or density giveaways — it’s reclaiming control over our most undervalued asset: land.

A viral Instagram clip from a recent “Black economics” gathering has been making its rounds — and not because of the brilliance on display. No, what went viral was the yelling. The rage. The spectacle. Killer Mike, among others, took the mic like a preacher on fire and delivered a sermon of fury — in my opinion, it was adrenaline masquerading as intellect. And here we go again.

Community leader Kenny Key shares an opinion

By Cheryl Morrow The Power of Collective Action: The Blackout Boycott Adam Clayton Powell Jr.’s “What’s in your hand?” speech finds a modern echo in today’s economic protests, such as the Blackout Boycott—a movement encouraging Black Americans to withhold their spending from major retail outlets. This act of economic resistance is not merely a protest against corporate apathy but a demonstration of the immense financial power Black America holds. The Black dollar circulates w