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Because revolutions aren't on TikTok, you probably didn't notice Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger create the AES to resist French influence. For them it's real because yearly, France is siphoning 500 billion dollars away from their former colonies while forcing them to import their goods to France and in turn, forcing them to buy back finished products, all the while investing those billions to the tune of trillions of dollars in dividends which not one nation of Africa benefits from.

Ten Years Later: From Forced Silence to Precedent — The Beard They Tried to Take, and the Voice They Couldn’t Ten years ago, I stood inside a Colorado prison intake facility and was told to do something that violated my faith, my dignity, and my humanity: shave my beard. It wasn’t about safety. It wasn’t about policy applied equally. It was about power — and the assumption that a man in custody has no voice, no rights, and no future. This month, after a decade-long legal fight, that assumption was proven wrong. I reached a settlement with the State of Colorado for $245,000 — not just compensation for what was done to me, but recognition that what happened was unlawful. More importantly, it sets a precedent for others who may face similar violations of religious freedom and human dignity. But this victory didn’t begin in a courtroom. It began with a long chain of injustice — and a refusal to be erased. The Road Back to Prison — and Back to Truth My original incarceration ste...