by jamaal | Sep 1, 2026 | Summer Madness
Baltimore is the most misrepresented city in America. It gets written about almost entirely through crime statistics and a twenty-year-old television show, usually by people who have spent a combined zero nights there. What that coverage misses: a majority-Black city...
by jamaal | Aug 31, 2026 | Summer Madness
Most guides to Washington cover the monuments and stop. That is a strange way to write about a city that was majority-Black for most of the last sixty years, invented its own genre of music, and houses the most significant African American museum in the country. Here...
by jamaal | Aug 29, 2026 | Summer Madness
Philadelphia is the most under-discussed Black city on the East Coast. It has one of the largest Black populations of any major American city, a history that predates the country, and a density of Black owned businesses in Philadelphia spread across more neighborhoods...
by jamaal | Aug 27, 2026 | Summer Madness
New York has more Black owned businesses than any other city in the country, and that number is somehow still the least interesting thing about it. What makes New York different is that those businesses are not scattered. They cluster into corridors, and those...
by jamaal | Aug 26, 2026 | Summer Madness
Every year another list ranks the best cities for Black people, and every year the same handful of metros trade places near the top. The rankings are useful as a starting point and almost useless as an ending point, because most of them measure the same three or four...
