In a just society, a child’s zip code would not determine their destiny. Yet across America, it does. The cost of inaction is devastating: lost dreams, wasted potential, and a society that betrays its promise.

The Industrial Revolution is often celebrated as a triumph of ingenuity and progress—but what if its foundation was built on theft? Beneath the innovation lies a darker truth: the rise of the United States as an economic superpower was fueled by the systematic expropriation of Native American land and the exploitation of African American slave labor.