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  • Black Audiences Deserve Better Than ‘Relationship Goals’
    Kelly Rowland and Method Man in “Relationship Goals.” (Photo by Amanda Matlovich/Prime)Remember the good ol’ days, when a...Read more
    Source: Contraband Camp Date: 2026-02-09 By Brooke Obie
  • Trump Administration Doesn't Want Us to Call Medgar Evers' Racist Assassin a 'Racist'
    (xiquinhosilva/Wikimedia Commons)Medgar Evers didn’t die quietly, and he didn’t die accidentally. He was hunted.On June 12, 1963,...Read more
    Source: Contraband Camp Date: 2026-02-06 By Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
  • The Wake-Up Call: Legends and Seeds
    Today’s Wake-Up Call started with the story of the Black Armed Guard of Monroe, N.C. Robert Franklin Williams was born on Feb. 26, 1925, in Monroe, N.C., to Emma Carter and John L. Williams. During his teen years, Williams’ grandmother, a formerly enslaved woman of Yoruba ancestry, gave Robert the...Read more
    Source: Contraband Camp Date: 2026-02-06 By Michael Harriot
  • BlackCheck: Do the Epstein Files Really Matter?
    ContrabandCamp’s BlackCheck scale uses data, facts peer-reviewed research to assess statements based on truthfulness, accuracy, and the level of racism.On Nov. 19, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, requiring the attorney general to release all documents related to the Department of Justice’s 20-year...Read more
    Source: Contraband Camp Date: 2026-02-05 By Michael Harriot
  • Greatest Agitators of All Time: The Massoit Guards
    Barely a week into February, you’ve probably already had your fill of Black History Month facts for white people. You know what I’m talking about. To satisfy their corporate Black History Month mandate, news outlets and media companies will offer the tiniest, most sanguine morsels of useless Black history...Read more
    Source: Contraband Camp Date: 2026-02-04 By Michael Harriot
  • Audre Lorde Taught Us: 'Survival Is Not Theoretical'
    “My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you…What are the words you do not have yet? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them,...Read more
    Source: Contraband Camp Date: 2026-02-04 By Kirsten West Savali
  • Is Chris Cillizza a Journalist?
    In 1917, Ida B. Wells was undoubtedly the most popular reporter in America and perhaps the most famous American woman in the world. As the face of the anti-lynching movement, racial justice and women’s suffrage, Wells was one of the most polarizing political figures of her day. To Black...Read more
    Source: Contraband Camp Date: 2026-02-03 By Michael Harriot

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