Black Maternal Health Week may be ending, but families still need answers. My latest The Minnesota Star Tribune column is about doulas, maternal health disparities, and why Minnesota should act. #BlackMaternalHealth #Doulas #DoulasMatter www.startribune.com/maternal-hea...

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

“The death of two Minnesota residents, that’s the cost of it.” 11 words. Cold enough to stain the public record. Revealing enough that Minnesota should not forget them. www.insightnews.com/opinion/colu... #Minnesota #ReneeGood #AlexPretti

Black Gen Z is not giving up on love. We are giving up on confusion. We are tired of mixed signals, emotional ambiguity, and a dating culture that treats clarity like too much to ask for. I wrote about that in my latest InsightNews column: www.insightnews.com/opinion/colu... #BlackGenZ #GenZ

This morning was a reminder that mentorship still matters. Grateful to Attorney General Keith Ellison for his continued support, guidance, and willingness to engage young people in real and meaningful ways. Gen Z, find yourself a village of mentors. #MentorsMatter

Who gets built into the future of medicine, and who gets left out. I wrote about Black women and the stakes of the AI era. thehub.news/black-women-...

"As a former history teacher, I could not help thinking about the way Americans remember protest... We remember the march, but not always the blows. We remember a speech, but not always the dogs & fire hoses. We remember the bridge, but not always the blood..." #NoKings

I arrived at No Kings in awe of the crowd. I left thinking about something harder. Gen Z was there. But many of us have grown up long enough in America to know that showing up is not the same thing as changing what happens next. My latest for the @startribune.com #NoKings #GenZ #Democracy

It began with the framed photograph of me & Dolores Huerta on my desk, & the moment I found myself looking at it differently. This piece is about admiration, truth, & what women, especially Gen Z women, are still too often being asked to carry. www.startribune.com/taylor-schli... #DoloresHuerta

What does it say about America when some parents protect their children through privacy, while others feel safer through visibility? My new column in InsightNews : www.insightnews.com/opinion/colu...

For Gen Z, a driver’s license is not just a milestone. It is access. If Minnesota wants to require driver’s ed for more young adults, it also has to address the cost. Otherwise, this is not just about safety. It is about delay. #GenZ #Minnesota #DriversEd

A driver’s license is not just about freedom. For many young adults, it is about access to work, school, and stability. If Minnesota expands driver’s ed requirements through age 20, it also needs to address affordability. Safety should not hinge on who can pay. www.startribune.com/mn-under-21-...

You can remove signage. You cannot remove consequences. My latest InsightNews column is about grief, Black health, and the reality that the body records what a nation tries not to face. www.insightnews.com/opinion/colu...

You don’t find your path. You make it. “I’m making my path by ________.” From Breaking Barriers, Building Futures at the University of Houston Law Center. Greatful for the conversation.

Walking down the aisle should not change your standing at the ballot box. My new @startribune.com column on the SAVE America Act & why it could make voting harder for women who change their names when they marry. #SAVEAct www.startribune.com/us-voting-ri...

Planning a wedding is hard enough. Planning your documentation for the ballot box should not be part of it. New in the @startribune.com on the Save Act. www.startribune.com/us-voting-ri...

Thank you to the University of Houston Law Center @uhlaw.bsky.social for having me for Breaking Barriers, Building Futures: Careers in Law. The high school students were serious about their future. I told them: you don’t find your path, you make it, through choices, habits & courage. #UHLaw

TX Democrats are voting now. @jasmineforus.bsky.social vs. @jamestalarico.bsky.social is not just a matchup, it’s a mirror. Black women know what happens when our testimony is treated as optional & a campaign statement is treated as fact. www.insightnews.com/opinion/colu...

A 1989 “A Different World” clip is circulating again, Jesse Jackson refusing to let a discouraged student opt out of the moment. Gen Z knows that temptation. My new @startribune.com column on why his words still meet this era. www.startribune.com/jesse-jackso... #JesseJackson #ADifferentWorld

There is a moment when you can feel the verdict forming before the full story is heard. Online, that moment comes fast. My new InsightNews column examines the response to TikTok creator Morgan Thompson & who gets believed by default. www.insightnews.com/opinion/colu... #JasmineCrockett #TXSen

Grateful to Sheletta Brundidge for having me on WCCO Radio’s The Sheletta Show to discuss my @startribune.com op-ed and what it means when current events are translated into gameplay. Listen: www.audacy.com/podcast/the-...

They made the grave mistake of invading the Northland in the dead of winter. They’re retreating because Minnesotans are stronger than they’ll ever be – driven by an unshakeable love for our neighbors.

This is not a screen-time story. It is a civic story. In my latest @startribune.com column, I unpack kids staging ICE raids in Roblox, why repetition matters, and why adults cannot outsource empathy to platforms or moderation tools. www.startribune.com/roblox-tikto...

We see you Soror Mayor Barbara Lee 💙💛🐩💛💙 #sgrho1922 www.youtube.com/live/hEokTz3...

“If she wins, we lose.” James Talarico, who is “we”? In 2026, a hundred years into Black history commemoration, we are not accepting dog whistles dressed as politics. Black women and Black families are not anyone’s warning label. We show up. We vote. We win.

Thank you to Brittany Noble & team for the invitation to #TheBreakdown. We talked about the road that brought me here & the responsibility I feel in this season, to practice law & write with clarity. @rolandsmartin.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/qozfujI...

Movie review from Guardian on Melania.

This week in Minnesota raised a question we cannot keep dodging: Will institutions protect routines from discomfort, or protect communities from harm. I wrote about it in InsightNews: “Nekima Levy Armstrong and the Gospel of Disruption.” www.insightnews.com/opinion/colu...

Why 2026 is the new 2016—what Gen Z’s nostalgia means for marketers

Some words are assignments. “Witness” is one of them. New column in InsightNews: When witness becomes an assignment. www.insightnews.com/news/when-wi...

🔥Rep @brotherjones.bsky.social to Hannity: “To your viewers—this man wants you to be fearful of your immigrant neighbors to protect the billionaires who keep you from having health care. He doesn’t care about crime. He hangs out with pedophiles & criminals in Mar-a-Lago.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )

In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Dr. King warned America not to fixate on effects while ignoring causes, not to debate tone while refusing to confront the conditions that produced the crisis. That is the question facing us right now. Read: www.startribune.com/mn-ice-surge... #MLKDay2026 #MLKDay

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each. If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.

I’m expanding my writing to TheHub.news as a contributing columnist. My first column is titled “Do You Have No Decency?”, a reflection on what is happening in Minnesota, and why Governor Tim Walz’s question belongs less to a press conference and more to our conscience. thehub.news/do-you-have-...

Gen Z lives in a feed where news, ads, memes, propaganda, & AI show up side by side. When the lines blur, distrust becomes self-defense, but cynicism can also make us easier to manipulate. My new @startribune.com column: www.startribune.com/gen-z-trust-...

I could not stay home tonight. I went to the vigil to bear witness. Four blocks from where George Floyd was killed, the question Governor Walz asked today is the only one that fits: “Do you have no decency?”

There are moments when you feel time moving, when the distance between a headline & a human life narrows. “The Wrap” made that visible. Grateful to attend @startribune.com “The Wrap” last night. Proud of journalism that tells Minnesota’s story with urgency, clarity, & care.

A different kind of holiday card from us this year, new year energy, family edition. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Taylor Schlitz family.

Juneteenth is a national reminder that freedom arrived late, and that truth still makes people uncomfortable. So what does it mean when it gets erased from the “free days” list while a president’s birthday gets added? www.startribune.com/nps-free-day...

“Is this the world we want to hand to our children?” Grateful to join The Karen Hunter Show today, we talked my journey (law school grad at 19), teaching US History in TX & my Star Tribune column on Trump’s proposed 50-year mortgage. Gen Z isn’t buying lifetime debt.

Thank you to Alberto Medina of CIRCLE @civicyouth.bsky.social at Tufts for taking time to talk with me about Gen Z, voting & the 2025 elections. Our conversation is in the video with my new @startribune.com column. www.startribune.com/youth-vote-2...

Some afternoons my phone feels less like a screen & more like a ledger, with bills, debt & friends losing housing. In my new @startribune.com column I write about how that quiet math is shaping Gen Z politics and who we trust with our vote. www.startribune.com/youth-vote-2...

Some afternoons my phone feels less like a screen & more like a ledger, with bills, debt & friends losing housing. In my new @startribune.com column I write about how that quiet math is shaping Gen Z politics and who we trust with our vote. www.startribune.com/youth-vote-2...

Wishing my friend @jasmineforus.bsky.social well today. She is an inspiration for #GenZ across the nation.

Spent Friday at the Justice Alan Page Elimination of Bias CLE, learning from Justice Page & reconnecting with my former boss, AG Keith Ellison. Moments like this feel like justice multiplied & they remind me why my generation has to keep standing up for equity & opportunity.

After the St. Paul ICE raid, I could not let go of 2 TikToks. A young woman calling her mother. A father promising to tell his children he stood with his neighbors. As ICE targets Somali families, I am listening to what our neighbors teach us. www.startribune.com/taylor-schli...

Had a great time with Vineeta Sawkar on WCCO talking about what Gen Z really wants from the holidays this year, less pressure to spend, more time to connect. Listen to the conversation: “What does Gen Z want to get out of this holiday season?” www.audacy.com/podcast/the-...

This #Thanksgiving, many in #GenZ are thankful for “home” but unsure we will ever own one. A 50-year mortgage is not the answer. In my new @startribune.com column, I share how this debate sounds from our generation’s side of the table: www.startribune.com/home-equity-... #50yearmortgage

Would you go on a date for free food? Thirty one percent of Gen Z singles say they have. In my new @startribune.com column, I break down the Foodie Call trend and what it says about money, dating, and connection. Read here: www.startribune.com/young-people... #GenZ #FoodieCall