Author. Architect. Witness.
Former Pres./CEO Los Angeles & New Orleans Urban League
Former Chairman New Orleans International Airport & Member of LAX Board of Commissioners
Current Corporate Communications Advisor Fortune 500s & Nat’l Nonprofits Author
JD, MA, BS
“America should have written
‘We the People’ …and MEANT IT”
America has never offered full equality, it offered progress slow enough to feel real but equality distant enough to never arrive.
Incremental Equality is the idea that justice must arrive gradually. That rights should be extended in stages. That progress should be paced to avoid disruption. It frames caution as wisdom and urgency as recklessness.
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“What makes this novel extraordinary is not just its historical sweep, but its intimate lens…
This is a novel, yes. But it is also an archive. A reckoning. A blueprint. It asks us not only to remember, but to recognize. To see how the past is not past, and how the future depends on our willingness to confront what has been withheld.”
-Marc H. Morial, National Urban League Pres./CEO
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The Novel at a Glance
Book I | The Kingdom | Before the world was broken, power, culture, and knowledge already existed (a Kongolise family in pre-colonial Africa, establishing sovereignty, wealth, and memory before capture and erasure).
Book II | The Inheritance | Slavery is not just violence, it is a system designed to be inherited (traces how bondage, law, and identity are passed down together, binding generations long after chains disappear).
Book III | The Chains | Freedom is declared, then quietly redesigned to fail (exposes how emancipation gives way to Reconstruction, betrayal, and the architecture of second bondage).
Book IV | The Window | Progress is visible, access remains just out of reach (an examination of the illusion of inclusion, as Black Americans are allowed to look in, but rarely step through the door of the American Dream).
Book V | The Color Line | The rules change, the boundary does not (follow the modern reconfiguration of race through policy, disaster, data, and urban design).
Book VI The Reckoning | Patterns can be named, and once named, they can be confronted (forces a reckoning with America’s unfinished promise and asks what justice would require if history were truly acknowledged).
Book VII The Redemption | Redemption is not remorse,it is repair
(asks and answers “ What America Should Have Done”, and what justice still demands).
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These writings do not chase reaction or relevance. They trace patterns across time, connect law to lived experience, and names the structures beneath familiar outcomes. Together, they form the intellectual backbone of “Intellectual Equality” and “Source Code” (forthcoming), and the work that follows.
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