In this Porch Light series episode, L. Joy invites us to continue to imagine what it means to not fight back, but to fight forward and to remake an economy that actually serves the people who make it run. The economy is not the weather, it is not a natural phenomenon we must simply survive. It was built by people making choices and writing rules that concentrated wealth, extracted from Black communities, and normalized disinvestment. L. Joy reminds us that the legacy of redlining, predatory capitalism, and the marketing of convenience has left many of our neighborhoods with dollar stores, check cashing counters, rent-to-own shops, and big box stores where local economic eco-systems once thrived. But just like laws can be rewritten, the economy can be redesigned. To dive deeper into the economy, L. Joy brings Donald Hinkle-Brown to the front of the class.