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The son of enslaved parents in Goochland County, Va, John Berry Meachum was born in 1789, a few days after the inauguration of George Washington. When Meachum’s enslaver, Paul Meachum, moved him from Virginia to North Carolina to Kentucky, John used his carpentry, blacksmithing and coopering skills to save...Read more

Envato/ContrabandCampThis article was originally published on February 19, 2021.On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing...Read more

Amanda Wallace, left, and Jasmine Sankofa, executive director of Movement for Family Power (Photo courtesy of Amanda Wallace)Protesting...Read more

Opal Lee (Courtesy of Dione Sims)Dr. Opal Lee is often referred to as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” but...Read more

John Moon was unqualified.Adopted by a Pittsburgh family in 1963 after living in an Atlanta orphanage, Moon found work cleaning up what other people left behind. He was an orderly. He changed sheets. He changed bedpans. He did the kind of labor that keeps institutions running but rarely gets applauded....Read more

On Oct. 18, 1867, white South Carolinians awoke to incredibly disturbing news. “There is no use ignoring a palpable fact,” the Charleston Daily News explained. “Every negro almost in the State is enrolled in the League, and is nearly as much under discipline as though he were in the army....Read more

When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, its mandate was clear: dismantle structural exclusion in American workplaces.But under the Trump administration, fueled by what I call the “MAGA Delusion,” civil rights enforcement is being repositioned. Tools designed to confront discrimination are being redirected...Read more

In 1865, printer John Brooks Russell was browsing the shelves of a pawn shop in Washington, D.C., when he noticed a box labeled “Edward M. Thomas.” Russell immediately knew Thomas was a Black man who had spent most of his life working as a messenger in the House of Representatives,...Read more

This article originally appeared on NegusWhoRead on Aug. 6, 2020.Karen died today. Or maybe yesterday, I can’t be sure.All I know is that when I was alerted to the existence of a Wikipedia page for the term Karen, I knew it was time to move on. I predicted...Read more

What is woke?While Huddie Ledbetter enshrined the term in the official Black American Unabridged Dictionary 80 years ago, the coal miners who used it in 1940 probably never heard Leadbelly’s song. By the 1960s, “woke” was so entrenched in Black culture that William E. Kelly wrote about...Read more

“There have been many race riots reported in this country,” began the Sept. 2, 1899 article in the Atlanta Constitution. “But the Darien affair can be safely said to stand without a parallel in the history of all the troubles.”What was the Darien Affair, and why did it scare the bejesus...Read more

One of the wildest success stories in Black history began with a great slave escape.Born enslaved in 1819, Ben Montgomery was trafficked in Mississippi at 17 years old to live on Joseph Davis’ Hurricane Plantation in now-David Bend, Miss. Davis was a lawyer and a huge book collector...Read more

(Death Row-Interscope; Ruffhouse-Columbia)Like most self-described hip-hop heads who came of musical age in the 1990s, Sept. 29, 1998,...Read more

This article originally appeared on NegusWhoRead on June 8, 2016.Question: What’s the difference between a Ku Klux Klan rally and a Republican meeting?Answer: One has a bunch of racists who are dedicated to the principles of intolerance, Christian nationalism and white supremacy. The other is a Klan rally. Hello?...Read more

(Envato Elements)On Sept. 29, 1683, more than two centuries before a criminal immigrant named Friedrich Trump arrived...Read more

On Sunday, Aug. 17, 1862, the New York Times published a brief blurb titled “Employing the Contrabands.” One month earlier, Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act, granting President Abraham Lincoln permission to “employ as many persons of African descent as he may deem necessary and proper for the suppression...Read more

Kelly Rowland and Method Man in “Relationship Goals.” (Photo by Amanda Matlovich/Prime)Remember the good ol’ days, when a...Read more

(xiquinhosilva/Wikimedia Commons)Medgar Evers didn’t die quietly, and he didn’t die accidentally. He was hunted.On June 12, 1963,...Read more

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

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

At the NAACP Image Awards, Jayme Lawson put BBC & BAFTA on blast for “careless” mishandling of the N-word incident with fellow Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo. She added that the institutions also “exploited”read more

The NAACP Image Awards brought all of the positive, Black vibes to close out another Black History Month. The room was filled with Black icons, movers and shakers from every part of the industry and also included beautiful moments from the likes...read more

Source: Getty Images for BET Black Hollywood looked runway-ready and radiant at the 57th NAACP Image Awards, and a number of your faves were stunning style standouts.read more

“Don’t worry, we got it!” That was the mood inside the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, where the audience gave a sweeping standing ovation to Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan at the 57th NAACP Image Awards, in the wake of theread more

The United States and Israel launched a large-scale military assault on Iran early Saturday, marking what officials describe as a significant escalation in U.S. involvement against the Islamic Republic. In an eight-minute video posted to Truth Social, President Donald Trump confirmed the operation....read more

Real Haut Girl S**t! All eyes were on Megan Thee Sumptuous Stallion who stunned in a curve-caressing see-through dress at AMIRI’s luxurious flagship store grand opening celebration in Milan.read more

Four years after his last film shoot, the wait for Jonathan Majors‘ movie return is officially over. This week in South Carolina, cameras began rolling on an untitled action feature that marks a massive departure from the Hollywood studio system that once championed the actor. ...read more

Fresh off his first Grammy win for Best Progressive R&B Album, Durand Bernarr is stepping into a new chapter of his career with the confidence of an artist who knows exactly who he is and the impact that comes with it.read more

Nene Leakes is setting the record straight on her lip-locking NBA game date with a new man. It’s been nearly five years since her late husband, Gregg, passed away after a battle with colon cancer; however, Nene claims she’s...read more

The 2026 legal season is heating up for Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Kenya Moore. Following reports that a Georgia judge ordered her to pay nearly six figures in back rent, the reality TV icon and entrepreneur is firing back. Kenya Moore’s salon, the Kenya Moore Hair Spa, has...read more

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Delroy Lindo has addressed the controversial moment when he and Michael B. Jordan stood onstage at the BAFTA Awards and Tourette’s advocate John Davidson shouted the...Read more

Y’all! Remy Ma just reminded the timeline that whether it’s...Read more

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The Leaders Esteem Christian Bible University has come under scrutiny, and so has the plethora of honorary doctorate degrees it...Read more

Whew! Things reportedly went left in a Texas...Read more

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Sometimes the strongest people are carrying battles the world...Read more