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Nolan Wells: It Is Not the Conspiracy. It Is the Familiarity.
The circumstances surrounding his death and a ruling of “no foul play was suspected” before an investigation even began trigger an alarm that is all too…
7 hrs ago • LaTosha Brown
The Wake-Up Call Live: A Field Trip
A livestream from the University of Buffalo’s Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education's Teaching Black History Conference.
9 hrs ago • Michael Harriot
1:07:25
Why We Can't Stop Loving Jay-Z
No one disagrees about Jay-Z's loyalty to capitalism, Black people or even himself. We just don't want it to be true.
Jul 23 • Michael Harriot
Will the Internet Kill the Black Press? Blacksplained by Roland S. Martin
As the 200th anniversary of the Black press approaches, journalist Roland S. Martin blacksplains why Black media is more necessary than ever, how it's…
Jul 22 • Michael Harriot
44:39
ESPN Did Ryan Clark Dirty. But It Got Me Thinking About the Most Disrespectful Ways to Get Fired
Getting fired while you’re on-air is the kind of corporate behavior that makes everybody else side-eye their employer.
Jul 22 • The Low End Theorist
CRT for HOTD: We Used AI to Solve Every Problem on 'House of the Dragon' S03, E5
We fed Rhaenyra's problems into BlackGPT—the first artificial intelligence model guaranteed not to include white nonsense.
Jul 21 • Michael Harriot
CRT for HOTD: Ranking the Primary Candidates in the 'House of the Dragon' Midterms
On episode four of season three, "House of the Dragons" laid out the players vying for the Iron Throne, but how will the candidates make the Seven…
Jul 18 • Michael Harriot
The Wake-Up Call Live: Sympathy For a Devil
Michael Harriot discusses Lindsey Graham's legacy, Hakeem Jeffries' leadership, midterm elections and other things that died this week.
Jul 17 • Michael Harriot
54:34
Book Bans Are Surging In Iowa. So Nikole Hannah-Jones Is Bringing Banned Authors to the State for a Free Read-In
For the second year in a row, "The 1619 Project" author returns to her hometown to host Black authors whose books have been targeted by Iowa's anti-DEI…
Jul 16 • Phil Lewis
The Top 10 Black-Owned Businesses of All Time
Is it possible to run a successful, profitable business without adopting the worst parts of capitalism? Well, Black people actually did it.
Jul 15 • Michael Harriot
We Got Receipts: Black Ingenuity Made America Great
We were never just labor. We were more than just bodies. Our ideas, our innovation—our very survival—built this country.
Jul 14 • LaTosha Brown
How Obama Can 'Greatly Admire' George Washington and Call Him a 'Slaveholder,' Explained
White people are furious that Barack Obama called George Washington a slave owner. Others are mad at the first Black president for saying he "admired…
Jul 10 • Michael Harriot
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