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Jun 19

They Can Shut Down an AI Model in 90 Minutes, But Americans Still Cannot Get Healthcare

The question is not whether the government has power, but who it decides to protect.

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Jan 30

The Silicon Valley Gamble

18 months, outstanding credentials, zero offers, and the meritocracy myth that kept me trying

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Mar 7

Between Martyrdom and Motivation: The Unwritten Legacy of Jesse Jackson

Dr. King was arrested 29 times. We gave him a holiday.

Between Martyrdom and Motivation: The Unwritten Legacy of Jesse Jackson

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Jan 19

The White Narcissist’s Mirror: Why They Call Michelle a Man and Barack “Bambi”

Conspiracies reveal a collective pathology of envy, fragility, and sexual obsession.

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Jan 12

The Supermodel in the Engineering Office

Do Not Do That Again

Two Black female engineering students with pressed hair in a 1980s lab. One woman looks uncertain as she works on a circuit board. The other leans in to whisper in her ear. White male students stand around them at a workbench.

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Apr 21

On Excellence and Erasure

How an AI detector thought I didn’t write my own memoir

A Black woman carrying a Toni Morrison book walks through a lit doorway, leaving behind a dark desk where a laptop screen falsely flags her writing as “86% AI-Generated” next to her physical family items.

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ILLUMINATION

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Apr 17

The Hallway Tax

The price of competence

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The Memoirist

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Apr 15

Sylvia Had a Lot of Friends. I Had One Friend.

On dead fathers and the girl who chose me.

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Apr 13

A Tale of Two Rocks

One sits behind glass in a museum. The other struck Dr. King in Chicago.

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The Linoleum Engineer

My mother didn’t have a high school degree. She had something better.

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Writer & AI Evangelist with a love for learning. Proud holder of BSEE in 1984. I earned an MSEE, too. Follow me to avoid the many mistakes I have made.

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