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The SAVE Act, Midterm Elections, and Why Your Vote Matters Right Now
Read more: The SAVE Act, Midterm Elections, and Why Your Vote Matters Right NowVoting in the United States is not just about showing up anymore. It is about whether: (1) you can register easily; (2) your identification is accepted; and(3) the rules change before you even get the chance to find out. The SAVE Act is not a distant idea. It has already passed the House, and is…
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Sneaky Saving Strats: Stack and Invest Money Effortlessly
Read more: Sneaky Saving Strats: Stack and Invest Money EffortlesslyMost people assume that building savings or investing consistently requires a high salary, perfect discipline, or hours spent studying the stock market. That belief alone is enough to stop many people before they even begin. But, the reality is much simpler. Financial stability is often built through systems, not willpower. When saving and investing are…
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Favorite Metro Detroit Spots Right Now
Read more: Favorite Metro Detroit Spots Right NowThere’s a lot happening in the U.S. right now, and it can feel overwhelming at times. As the weather starts to improve and the sun finally returns, it’s a good reminder that our mental health matters too. Getting outside, spending time with people, and enjoying the spaces around us can help bring a little balance…
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A Serious Question: Why Not You?
Read more: A Serious Question: Why Not You?Many of us grow up believing that opportunity belongs to a specific type of person. The person who is smarter, prettier, thinner, richer, more charismatic, and/or more connected. Somewhere along the way we begin to quietly remove ourselves from consideration before life even has the chance to. We see the job posting and assume someone…
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Sidewalks and Basic Courtesy
Read more: Sidewalks and Basic CourtesyThey seems small. Three simple, yet powerful phrases: Excuse me.Please.Thank you. Social hierarchies are maintained through small rituals (i.e., who yields; who acknowledges; who defers). For instance, under Jim Crow, Black people (not the dehumanizing word ‘blacks’) were required to step off sidewalks to allow white people to pass. They were required to use honorifics…
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A Tale of Two Neighborhoods
Read more: A Tale of Two NeighborhoodsThere is a certain kind of inconvenience that is easy to dismiss. The deodorant is locked up.You press a button and wait.No one comes.You wait longer. It is mildly irritating. Nothing more. The produce section looks sparse. The apples are bruised. The lettuce wilts early. The shelves lean heavily toward packaged foods with long ingredient…
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The Invisible Scoreboard
Read more: The Invisible ScoreboardYou’ve opened LinkedIn and, suddenly, your stomach drops to the pits of hell. Someone just raised 1M in funding.Someone just bought a second home.Someone just made partner before 30.Someone just moved abroad—cost of living low.Someone just launched something innovative, bold. And without meaning to, you start computing. Shouldn’t I be further by now?How old am…
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What Changed When I Stopped Trying to Be Disciplined
Read more: What Changed When I Stopped Trying to Be Disciplined“I’m just not a morning person.”“I’m bad at consistency.”“I’m not a reader.” These statements feel harmless. Honest, even. But, they quietly lock you into an identity that keeps your behavior stagnant. The problem isn’t that you don’t want better habits.The problem is that you’re trying to latch onto change instead of leveraging your environment to…
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You Are Not Powerless in America — You’re Being Tested
Read more: You Are Not Powerless in America — You’re Being TestedLet’s start with the uncomfortable truth: it is absolutely insane that the expectation right now is for daily life to continue in America as though nothing is happening. People are being detained, harmed, stripped of due process, and gaslit in real time. And yet, we are told to keep working, keep consuming, keep scrolling, keep…
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You Can’t Be a Good Person and Racist at the Same Time
Read more: You Can’t Be a Good Person and Racist at the Same TimePeople who resist the label racist often do so not because they oppose injustice, but because it conflicts with how they see themselves. They tend to think of themselves as decent. Polite. Fair. People who love their families and treat others well in everyday life. So when racism enters the conversation, it feels like a…
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American Life: Living Under Someone Else’s Fear
Read more: American Life: Living Under Someone Else’s FearBefore anyone feels the urge to say, “Then go back to where you came from,” let me save you the trouble. After you. Let’s be clear. This country wasn’t discovered, and it certainly wasn’t settled through peace or consent. It was seized through violence and displacement—a history that still shapes how the disease of unease…
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Why Sinners Was Sidelined: Performance Versus Power
Read more: Why Sinners Was Sidelined: Performance Versus PowerThere are years when awards debates come down to taste, and then there are years when the distance between what moved the culture and what was rewarded is too wide to ignore. The most recent Critics Choice Awards made that gap especially clear. With Sinners, Ryan Coogler delivered a film that fused Southern Gothic horror,…
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A Different Approach for the Year Ahead
Read more: A Different Approach for the Year AheadHappy New Year!~ I hope you rested. I hope you reflected. I hope you closed 2025 with at least a little more clarity than you had going into it. Now… let’s get to business. This is usually the part where we talk about resets. Fresh starts. New versions of ourselves. And that’s fine—truly. There’s nothing…
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“You Have to Be Ten Times Better:” The Black Survival Manual
Read more: “You Have to Be Ten Times Better:” The Black Survival ManualFor generations, many Black Americans have been raised with a message that was never meant to inspire per se, but primarily to protect: “you have to be ten times better than your counterparts just to be treated as equal.” It was strategy and a rational response to a society that routinely changed the rules the…
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If He Switches Up Out of Nowhere, Read This
Read more: If He Switches Up Out of Nowhere, Read ThisOne day, he is attentive and engaged. The next, his energy feels different. His tone shifts. His interest feels inconsistent. You replay conversations, wondering if you said or did something wrong. Often, you did not. When a man is uncomfortable with a woman who is secure in herself, he may reach for behaviors that make…
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Shiny Object Syndrome: The Illusion of Choice and the Cost of Always Wanting More
Read more: Shiny Object Syndrome: The Illusion of Choice and the Cost of Always Wanting MoreThere’s a quiet epidemic running through modern relationships. Not a virus or a crisis of compatibility, but something far more subtle: the inability to appreciate what we already have. Shiny object syndrome (SOS) has convinced many people that there is always something better waiting just outside the frame of their current life. Someone hotter, richer,…
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Why Being an Epidemiologist Makes Dating… Complicated (In the Best Way)
Read more: Why Being an Epidemiologist Makes Dating… Complicated (In the Best Way)There are advantages to being an epidemiologist. For instance, the ability to detect subtle patterns, identify outliers, track trends over time, and forecast outcomes with unnerving accuracy. However, those same skills become a curse the moment they’re intermixed with dating. Most women are taught to trust their feelings. Epidemiologists are trained to trust the data.…
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What Your Tongue and Skin Reveal: Surprising TCM Health Lessons You Can Use Every Day
Read more: What Your Tongue and Skin Reveal: Surprising TCM Health Lessons You Can Use Every DayTraditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is one of the oldest healing systems in the world, but what makes it relevant today is not mythology or mysticism. It is the way TCM views the body as a living ecosystem where imbalance has patterns and symptoms have stories. Instead of asking “What pill fixes this,” TCM asks, “What…
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Detroit’s Black Tech Saturdays (BTS): Where Innovation Meets Community
Read more: Detroit’s Black Tech Saturdays (BTS): Where Innovation Meets CommunityPhoto credit: Dr. Dawn Batts, originally published in the Michigan Chronicle. When I first sat in on a Black Tech Saturdays (BTS) event, there were maybe 20 of us in the room, each carrying our own questions, ideas, and quiet ambition. I was curious, but reserved, simply trying to take it all in. I didn’t…
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Detroit’s Holiday Season 2025: The City’s Best Festive Events to Experience
Read more: Detroit’s Holiday Season 2025: The City’s Best Festive Events to ExperienceWhen the cold winds settle over Detroit and the city lights begin to glow against the early evening sky, the holiday season begins to take hold. Downtown streets hum with energy, neighborhoods gather in celebration, and familiar spaces transform into warm, sparkling winter destinations. Whether you are searching for family-friendly fun, romantic winter outings, or…
Lence in Layers 