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The Emperor Has No Clothes: Why Dr. Santelises Must Go

(BALTIMORE – December 24, 2025) – When I first saw the news, I said to myself, Are you kidding me? Surely, you’re joking. No disrespect, but I’ve seen a snow job before. And for me, this was a classic – even to the point of extending her contract. In case you didn’t hear, Dr. Sonja Santelises has been voted the top public school superintendent in the state of Maryland and is a finalist for the national honor. Let me be clear: This is a smack in the face of every parent of every child in a Baltimore City school. The data…

Summer Lee’s AI Civil Rights Act Takes Aim at the Algorithmic Discrimination Choking Black Media

After losing 211,000 followers to platform suppression, this Baltimore publisher turned his pain into doctoral research—and now a Congresswoman is fighting the same battle in Washington (BALTIMORE – December 23, 2025) – When Pittsburgh Congresswoman Summer Lee declared this week that “discrimination is illegal when it’s done by a person, and it should be just as illegal when it’s done by an algorithm,” I felt something I haven’t experienced in years of fighting platform suppression: hope backed by power. Lee’s reintroduction of the Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act isn’t just another piece of legislation. For those of us running independent…

Woodlawn Says “No” to Data Centers

(WOODLAWN – December 23, 2025) – Senator Charles E. Sydnor III and Delegates Sheila Ruth and Aletheia McCaskill (the “District 44B Legislators”) hosted an informational meeting on December 3rd regarding a proposed data center’s development in the Woodlawn community. This meeting was held in the Woodlawn High School Auditorium. This is the “District 44B Legislators” team statement: “After carefully considering all that we have learned about data centers and their potential impact, and the feedback we have received from our constituents, the District 44 legislators have concluded that the potential harm that developing a data center in Woodlawn could cause…