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The welfare state broke Black families. Work can help restore the dream

Rooftop Revelations: Mothers on Chicago's South Side are completing electrician training and passing the police exam to escape dependency

By Corey Brooks Fox News

Published July 28, 2026 10:00am EDT

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Rooftop Revelations: More monuments won't save Black America

Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks says young Black Americans need mentorship, education, discipline and work to overcome adversity.

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Recently, I heard Christian Maxwell, the Republican nominee for Illinois’ 1st Congressional District, say something that I’ve been thinking about ever since. She argued that the minute Black women start seeing themselves as Americans, as fully part of the American story, the entire progressive coalition built on grievances will begin to fall apart.

Her point was that Black women have been trained, indoctrinated and propagandized to see themselves as victims of America, and that’s why progress has been stifled. They’ve been rallying around sinister influences, especially false narratives about what a Black woman is, and that’s kept them locked in a culture of poverty and resentment instead of possibility and opportunity. She’s right. And I’ve spent the past 20 years on the South Side of Chicago watching how this has happened.

In plain words, what has happened has been nothing less than a divorce. I’m not talking about marriage, but the divorce between the Black woman and the American Dream.

I say Black woman here, not to........

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