The Journeyman
Marlon Weems, Egberto Willies, Claudia Sahm, Dr. Allison Wiltz, Shari Dunn, Daryl Fairweather, PhD, Deidre Keller, Turney DuffA newsletter focused on the intersection of American culture, politics, and growing up Black in the South.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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Citizens Arrest with Shari Dunn & Marlon Weems
The Democratic Party’s post-2024 autopsy.
The Democratic Party’s post-2024 autopsy. The politics of fear. AI and the future of writing. And why messaging—not policy—may be deciding American elections.
The Next Battle for Progressives Won’t Be Against Republicans
A Note About Supporting The Journeyman
Most of the work I publish here remains available to everyone. That is intentional. I believe serious analysis should be accessible, particularly at a moment when so much of the pub...
Primary Election Results: Winners, Losers & What Happens Next
In this extended edition of The Reality Check, Marlon Weems and Egberto Willies unpack the political and economic implications of Tuesday night’s primary elections, arguing that the results reveal a Democratic Party increasingly driven by g...
When Markets Price Belief
The Future, Priced Today: Wall Street has always valued the future. Increasingly, investors are assigning today’s prices to tomorrow’s possibilities—from AI and robotics to space exploration and digital assets.
The Journeyman is a r...
Too Big to Fail: It Was Never About Mortgages
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This weekend, I watched Too Big to Fail, the HBO dramatization of the 2008 financ...
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Storyteller. Former Wall Street executive. Independent journalist. Explaining how markets, money, media, and power shape everyday life.
A political activist, author, blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer. He's a Progressive whose favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship.”
Founder of Sahm Consulting, former Federal Reserve and White House economist.
A womanist scholar with bylines on Oprah Daily, ZORA, GEN, LEVEL, and Momentum, the editor and chief of For Black Women, Cultured, Writers and Editors of Color. Earned a PhD in Psychology. Learn more at allisonthedailywriter.com
Shari Dunn, author of Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work (by Harper Business 2/25/25), is an accomplished journalist, former attorney, news anchor, CEO, and adjunct professor.
I'm chief economist at Redfin and author of Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work
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