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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

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

If you set firm, pre-planned limits, pace yourself, and alternate alcohol with water, you can fit in with drinking culture without overdoing it. Navigating social events without getting drunk also involves focusing on conversation instead of consumption.  Equally crucial is knowing when to get help if you think you’re exceeding...read more

There are only two days left of Black History Month 2026 and sadly, stories like this are still proliferating the news cycle. According to The Grio, two white men, one proudly rocking a red MAGA hat, have been...read more

Cardi B has responded to the claims she went “berserk” backstage at Saturday Night Live, all over a Nicki Minaj joke on Weekend Update. The Bronx native was the musical guest for SNL’s 1,000th episode on Jan. 31, performing “Bodega Baddie” and...read more

Shamone, Now! Source: Lionsgate Pictures There are movie promo campaigns, and then there’s the already-iconic Michael promo campaign which brought together the baddest bands in the Land to honor...read more

The city of Atlanta has a deep cultural legacy. It is known as the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr., the world’s busiest airport, lemon pepper wings, and booty, big ol’ bouncing booty. Black booty. The type of booty that makes you glorify the name of...read more

Megan Thee Stallion just sent the internet into a tizzy after teasing a spicy verse on Juvenile’s viral single “B.B.B.” and now, the timeline is begging for the full drop. On Wednesday, Meg posted a 15-second clip to Instagram...read more

Flawlessly feathered and FINEEE! There’s nothing like Carnival Season which attracts the most beautiful women in the world who stop the world in flawlessly feathered costumes during daysss-long celebrations from Mardi Gras to the famed Trinidad Carnival.read more

The adidas Originals Superstar is back in the spotlight, and this time, it’s getting the full Hollywood-meets-streetwear treatment. For its Spring 2026 campaign, adidas Originals has teamed up once again with the legendary Samuel L. Jackson, who returns as the voice and face...read more

You can call them controversial, you can call them calculated, but two House Of Villains stars are making waves with their antics, including a lip-locking session for one of them with a certain celeb icon. ...read more

An iconic Real Housewife once said, “This my man, everybody talking about my man, my man!”—and now her current man is the topic of discussion. NeNe Leakes appears to have found love again, this time with Memphis attorney, Arthur Horne III. ...read more

Kenya Moore is shutting down a report claiming she defaulted on rent payments...Read more

A New Orleans judge ordered actor Shia LaBeouf to return to drug and alcohol...Read more

There are two things Claressa Shields doesn’t play about: her undefeated title as a boxer and her man, Papoose. Shields...Read more

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Roommates, y’all know Rihanna always stays on the internet’s radar. If social media...Read more

Nique’s recent car video with NBA Youngboy has the entire internet talking. Since...Read more

Sukihana and Bobbi Althoff have turned into the duo the internet didn’t know it needed! The girlies have folks cuttin’ UP online after their latest YouTube link-up. Suki pretty much stole...Read more