Nike once told us, “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.”

Well, apparently they meant it.

Because the company that once dominated athletic culture has watched roughly $230 billion in market value disappear from its peak. Its stock is near a 12-year low. Hoka and On are taking market share. Nike is trying to rebuild relationships with retailers it walked away from. And after roughly 18 years, the company is being removed from the S&P 100.

So what happened?

Companies this big do not lose their footing overnight. This took years.

And in my opinion, Nike got so busy trying to tell everybody what it stood for culturally that it stopped paying enough attention to it's customers.

Let’s make it make sense.

Your vote matters, and so does knowing what you are voting for. Political labels can get loud, but the policies are what affect your life, your family, your finances, and your future. Before you cast a ballot, look closely at what each candidate and party is proposing, then decide whether those policies actually align with your best interests.

That is exactly why I wrote How to Vote in Your Best Interest. It is designed to help you think through your priorities, understand what is on the table, and make a more informed decision before Election Day.

Get your copy here: How to Vote in Your Best Interest

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The Lindsay Clancy Mistrial: What the Jury’s Deadlock Means

Welcome back to Make It Make Sense with Andrinique. In this episode, Andrinique examines the Lindsay Clancy trial, the legal meaning of its 11-to-1 jury deadlock, and the unresolved question of whether postpartum psychosis eliminated Clancy’s criminal responsibility. The episode also considers the need for better maternal mental-health care without losing sight of the three children who were killed.

In this episode:

• Why the jury was deciding criminal responsibility, not whether Lindsay Clancy killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan.
• The prosecution’s argument that Clancy understood right from wrong, planned the killings, and sent her husband away before acting.
• The defense theory that Clancy was experiencing postpartum psychosis, an undiagnosed bipolar disorder, and command hallucinations.
• Why two psychiatrists who treated Clancy before the killings testified that they did not observe psychosis.
• How Clancy’s prescriptions for 13 psychiatric medications became central to the public discussion, despite evidence that she did not consistently take them.
• The range of possible verdicts, from first-degree murder to manslaughter or not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.
• Why Judge William Sullivan declined to remove the holdout juror after the other 11 jurors reportedly supported acquittal.
• The separate arrest of Dawn Light, a Clancy supporter accused of recording jurors outside the courthouse.
• What a mistrial means: Clancy was neither convicted nor acquitted, and the murder charges remain pending.
• Why maternal mental-health advocacy and accountability for children’s deaths must both remain part of the conversation.

A 99 mph derecho tore through Northwest Indiana on August 11, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers. Two weeks later, thousands were still waiting for electricity.

In this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique, I’m looking beyond the storm itself. I’m breaking down the scale of the damage, NIPSCO’s restoration response, the financial cost to Gary families and businesses, the questions surrounding infrastructure and vegetation management.

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Right on the heels of Governor Maura Healey signing the new legislation here in Massachusetts, our state has officially removed its rigid 24-week gestational limits, joining nine other states and Washington, D.C., that handle late pregnancy decisions through the professional medical judgment of a licensed physician rather than an arbitrary statutory week cap.

Those other states include Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, and Vermont. It does not mean a woman can walk into a clinic at nine months pregnant and ask for an elective abortion because she changed her mind. The law gives discretion to the doctor. Let's talk about it.

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Nobody Told You The Democratic Party Was Being Replaced From The Inside

Two sitting members of Congress lost their seats this year to people inside their own party that most voters could not name six months ago.

In this episode, Andrinique is breaking this down candidate by candidate. Some of these candidates are Democratic Socialists of America members, but some are not. They are running on the same coalition and much of the same agenda, and I'll  walk you through what that agenda actually says. 

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Make It Make Sense with Andrinique | Episode 30: The Real Story Behind the DSA's 'Workers Deserve More' Platform

A DSA co-chair sat on Fox News and said yes. Yes to abolishing the Senate. Yes to abolishing ICE. Yes to defunding the Pentagon. No hesitation, no walk-back, on camera.

This is not a leaked memo or a fringe opinion. It's their official platform, and they just won 35 primary elections running on it.

In this episode, Andrinique breaks down exactly what's in "Workers Deserve More." A new Constitution, with no Senate. A Supreme Court that answers to Congress instead of the law. No ICE, no borders, no prisons, universal amnesty. Public ownership of major corporations. A 32 hour workweek at full pay. Free healthcare, and erased student debt.

Then the part nobody in Washington wants to say out loud: what happens to your 401k when corporations get nationalized. What happens to global security when every overseas base closes. Who gets richer under this plan and who loses everything. And why this exact platform is splitting the Democratic Party in half, with establishment leaders like Jaime Harrison calling it politically toxic while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez keeps accepting the endorsement.

Listen now and tell me in the comments what are your thoughts

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Is Islam taking over American neighborhoods. That question lands in my inbox every week, loaded with fear that never gets checked against anything real. In this episode Andrinique, checks the facts. Five real fights happening right now: Dearborn's Muslim-majority shift, Hamtramck's flag ban under its first all-Muslim city council, the loudspeaker call to prayer battles playing out in two states, and the Texas mosque development that pulled in the governor and the attorney general. Court rulings, census numbers and votes. Real consequences landing on real people, on every side of this. And what residents on the ground are actually feeling. Send this to the person who keeps asking you if this is real.

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Nolan Wells left the mainland with three friends on the Fourth of July. His phone and keys made it  back on that boat, but he didn't.

In this episode, Andrinique breaks down the minute by minute timeline of Nolan Wells' disappearance and death on Horn Island, Mississippi, straight from GPS data, police reports, and confirmed reporting. What his friends told investigators, what two separate autopsies still haven't answered. And why civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Reverend Al Sharpton were even hired two days after Nolan went missing.

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Your child's brain moves to that bass before their mind ever agrees with the words. Rap didn't just make room for guns, prison, and degrading women in the lyrics. It's conditioning your kids to love all of it.

In this episode, Andrinique breaks down what is actually playing in our homes right now, starting with Yung Miami's "Spend Dat" and the debate it sparked with India.Arie and Nicci Gilbert. From there I get into the profanity we stopped noticing, the gun violence turned into punchlines, the way women get described in lyrics our daughters memorize, prison treated like a credential instead of a loss, and multiple baby mothers worn as a flex instead of a warning sign.

Then we talk about what most conversations about music never go. The actual research on how low frequency bass locks a beat into your child's body before their judgment even shows up, and why repetition is doing more to shape belief than any single lyric ever could.

This is not an outrage episode. It ends with exactly what you can do this week, in your own home.

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Your great-grandparents did not survive fire hoses and lynching so you could brawl in a customs line over a cruise ship seat.

That is the conversation we are having in this episode of Make it Make Sense with Andrinique. There is a version of Black America that never makes the news. It shows up to work. It pays its bills. It raises children who understand accountability before they are old enough to spell the word. Then there is the version that gets filmed, shared, and turned into the only story the world tells about all of us.

Today, I'm get into the Carnival Cruise brawls that got dozens of passengers banned. I get into reading scores that should alarm every one of us. I get into Barack Obama, what he actually did in policy versus what he meant to us as a symbol, and the money behind his Presidential Center. I get into what happened to the Black church.

This is not about giving up on anyone. This is about telling the truth the ancestors earned.

SHOW NOTES

[00:00] Intro — The two versions of Black America, and why one keeps standing in for all of us

[03:45] The behavior going viral — the 2025 and 2026 Carnival Cruise Line incidents, dozens of passengers permanently banned

[09:20] The reading scores — 2024 Nation's Report Card numbers on Black fourth and eighth grade literacy, and what college professors are saying now

[15:10] Barack Obama — symbol versus policy, and the real numbers behind the Presidential Center

[22:30] The church and the money — how the prosperity gospel replaced accountability

[28:15] Where we lost the thread — the real structural wounds, and why they do not excuse where personal accountability starts

[33:40] What you can actually do — starting in your own home, this week

[38:00] Close and call to action

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