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The Wake-Up Call Live: The Original Artificial Intelligence On Friday's live episode of The Wake-Up Call, we discussed research, artificial intelligence and why books are better.
21.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pharrell's Comments on Politics and DEI Upset the Internet. I Asked Him About It. I saw what he said, so I asked him what he meant.

ContrabandCamp spoke to Pharrell about his recent comments on DEI, Black excellence and politics.

21.11.2025 02:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pharrell's Comments on Politics and DEI Upset the Internet. I Asked Him About It. I saw what he said, so I asked him what he meant.
21.11.2025 02:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Wake-Up Call: The Problem With Black Excellence Black excellence has as much to do with the supremacy of whiteness as it has to do with the excellence of Blackness.
20.11.2025 04:16 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Jordan Peele Finally Reveals What 'Nope' Was Really About In New Documentary Peele's revelation is included in his upcoming documentary "High Horse: The Black Cowboy."
19.11.2025 16:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Wake-Up Call: LaTosha Brown Ain't Buying It Activist, grassroots organizer and Day One ContrabandCamper LaTosha Brown explains how we can leverage our dollars into power.
19.11.2025 04:23 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tell-It Report: Video of Texas Mom in Labor Highlights America's Black Maternal Health Crisis A viral TikTok video shows a Black woman writhing in pain in a wheelchair as a nurse casually asks admission questions.
18.11.2025 04:28 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How Does It Feel? Marjorie Taylor Greene is just one of the marginalized MAGA American activists who are concerned because Trump is doing exactly what they elected him to do.
15.11.2025 04:47 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Does It Feel? Marjorie Taylor Greene is just one of the marginalized MAGA American activists who are concerned because Trump is doing exactly what they elected him to do.

What's the difference between a "welfare queen" & a food-insecure SNAP recipient?
inner-city clinics & rural hospitals
gov't handouts & "aid to struggling farmers?"
COINTELPRO & weaponizing the DOJ?
overpolicing & military occupation?
A Fascist & Trump?

Nothing...

We told y'all

14.11.2025 20:38 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The Sumptuous Feast of Nia DaCosta’s 'Hedda' Tessa Thompson shines in this bold reimagining of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play.
13.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Wake-Up Call: No One Cares About Politics and Neither Should You The recent government shutdown is a perfect example of why policy and people are more important than the sport and spectacle of American politics.
13.11.2025 04:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Wake-Up Call: The Hidden History of Black People Drinking Ginger Ale The ginger ale wars are actually a good lesson in Black history.
12.11.2025 05:05 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Tell-It Report: Black Memphis Residents Say They're Being Harassed by Police Task Force Authorities are stopping and questioning residents under the guise of keeping the city safe, according to an investigation.
10.11.2025 17:13 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Wake-Up Call Live: A Dick, a Doc and How America Died A live conversation with ContrabandCampers on cowboys, choirs and HBCU homecomings.
08.11.2025 05:28 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re Not Going Back to the Way Things Were. Black America Needs a Vision for the Future ContrabandCamp spoke with experts, thought leaders, activists and scholars for their ideas on a 10-point plan for the future of Black America.
07.11.2025 05:35 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Exclusive: Watch the Trailer for Jordan Peele's New Black Cowboy Doc Produced by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions, "High Horse: The Black Cowboy" dismantles the whitewashed mythology of the American cowboy.
06.11.2025 17:37 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Wake-Up Call: America Is a Lie What is the opposite of the truth?
06.11.2025 05:40 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Wake-Up Call: Your Vote Doesn't Matter As Much As You Think When it comes to the sport of politics, voting is only a small part of winning power.
05.11.2025 05:47 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tell-It Report: Alabama Subjected Inmate to Longest Nitrogen Gas Execution in U.S. History Anthony Todd Boyd maintained his innocence after being convicted of a 1993 murder.
03.11.2025 17:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Wake-Up Call Live: Piggly Wiggly And Bedtime Watch now (54 mins) | Live discussion with ContrabandCamp subscribers.
31.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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The Wake-Up Call: Your Mama Was a Welfare Queen, and So Are You. We should love living in a welfare state.
31.10.2025 06:16 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Throwback Thursdays: The Merit Myth – White Lies and Race-Conscious College Admissions The myth that colleges are lowering standards to accept DEI students is just white nonsense.
30.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Wake-Up Call: Race Science 101 A DEI-friendly lesson on geometry, history and race privilege.
30.10.2025 06:23 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Quiz: Are You an Antifa or a Radical Leftist? Take this quiz to find out which category of non-MAGA you belong in.

Will opposing fascism make you a target of Trump's new "Antifa" executive order? Does learning history violate CRT laws, or does your skin color already fit the description of a "diversity hire?"

Take the quiz and find out!

29.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Quiz: Are You an Antifa or a Radical Leftist? Take this quiz to find out which category of non-MAGA you belong in.
29.10.2025 18:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Wake-Up Call: Where the Real Ninjas At? In search of the mythical characters that fuel the right-wing outrage machine.
28.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Tell-It Report: Former Deputy Who Killed Sonya Massey Refused To Provide Life-Saving Aid The trial against Sean Grayson is underway more than a year after he fatally shot Sonya Massey in her home.
27.10.2025 18:38 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Lessons From the Golden Corral: An Exclusive Excerpt From the New Book by Roy Wood Jr. In his upcoming book "The Man of Many Fathers," comedian Roy Wood Jr. explains how a stint at a family style restaurant turned into a buffet of life lessons.

In an exclusive excerpt from his upcoming book "The Man of Many Fathers," comedian @roywoodjr.bsky.social reveals the lessons he learned while working at one of America's leading suppliers of low-vibrational plates.

27.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are There Any More Great Years In Hip-Hop to Come? Nearly three decades after a legendary run in 1998, the genre’s fragmented landscape raises questions about what greatness looks like now.

Let God Sort Em Out
Star Line
God Does Like Ugly
Supreme Clientele 2
Alfredo 2
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Don’t Tap the Glass
Live Laugh Love

2025 could be the best year in hip hop since…

25.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Wake-Up Call Live: How ContrabandCamp Killed the Clapback Mailbag Instead of clapping back at haters, every Friday we'll have a ContrabandCamp fireside chat with each other.
24.10.2025 18:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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