In 1969, Floyd McKissick bought a 5,000-acre former slave plantation in North Carolina and announced he was building a city. He secured $14 million in federal loans, laid water pipelines, and broke ground — until the project was strangled by political opposition. Soul City's blueprint proved that Black economic self-determination works.
January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed. June 19, 1865. Texas heard about it. Two years. Six months. Nineteen days. That gap isn’t a footnote in history. It’s a blueprint for how exclusion actually works. Not through a single…
This week, Junior Hakizumwami graduated from the Mouratoglou Academy in Biot, France. He walked across that stage as a Love All Scholar, a trained athlete, and a young man who spent a full year proving that the bridge between possibility and reality can be built — deliberately, brick by brick — when the right infrastructure exists.
Mariam Kamara walked away from a seven-year tech career to study architecture, then returned to Niger to build the Hikma Complex using compressed earth bricks that regulate extreme heat naturally. Her practice, Atelier Masomi, proves that the answers for African communities were in the soil the entire time.
Tuesdays with Junior | Ep 23 | June 9, 2026 Two Words. A Year in the Making. There is a moment when all the early mornings, the late-night study sessions, and the relentless pressure of balancing elite athletic training with…
Paul Revere Williams designed more than 3,000 structures across Los Angeles — from the LAX Theme Building to Frank Sinatra's home — while restrictive covenants barred him from living in the very neighborhoods he built. He learned to draw upside down so white clients wouldn't feel uncomfortable sitting across the table from him. He became the first Black Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
On June 1, Nicole Ari Parker walked into the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta expecting to inspire a room full of young people. She left inspired by them. Here's what happened inside the National Personal Finance Challenge — and why it matters.
Tuesdays with Junior | Ep 22 | June 2, 2026 From the Academy to the City of Light This week, Junior Hakizumwami stepped away from training at the Mouratoglou Academy and made his way to Paris. Not just to visit.…
Jenn Stowe is the Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, securing rights for the nannies and caregivers the law has historically ignored. She proves that care work is not charity — it is the economic backbone of everything else that functions.
Tuesdays with Junior | Ep 21 | May 26, 2026 There’s a particular kind of clarity that arrives at the end of something that mattered. This week, Junior Hakizumwami played his last tournament of the season at the Mouratoglou Academy…
