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Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.

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10 Years Later, Rihanna’s ‘Anti’ Still Hits. That’s Why I Don’t Need 'R9.' Rihanna already made her statement album, and her existence has been enough ever since.
28.01.2026 22:48 — 👍 31    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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All Protests Matter But some matter more than others.
28.01.2026 10:50 — 👍 92    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 1

Not only is he right, but we also need to have a conversation about reading comprehension, how analogies work & what “comparing” means.

28.01.2026 04:49 — 👍 551    🔁 102    💬 10    📌 2
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All Protests Matter But some matter more than others.

"Stay woke"

- A prayer.

28.01.2026 01:32 — 👍 161    🔁 27    💬 2    📌 0
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The Wake-Up Call: We Wouldn't Need to Abolish ICE If America Had Listened to Black People The origin story of "Abolish ICE."
26.01.2026 22:59 — 👍 274    🔁 50    💬 3    📌 3
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First the Shooting. Then the Lies. The Trump administration has perfected the smear campaign.

From last time. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

25.01.2026 00:24 — 👍 701    🔁 214    💬 11    📌 5
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This 15-year-old girl was one of 187 Black students whose Supreme Court case gave us the right to protest

The unconstitutional attacks in Minneapolis are directly tied to the erasure and demonization of our history...

Read her story at:

www.contrabandcamp.com/p/at-15-this...

25.01.2026 00:50 — 👍 216    🔁 72    💬 4    📌 2

Don't worry, guys

The streets of Minneapolis are about to be flooded with "pro-life" protesters waving "Don't Tread On Me" flags chanting "All Lives Matter."

I'm sure they're on the way, right?

Right?

24.01.2026 22:13 — 👍 515    🔁 79    💬 12    📌 2
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At 15, This Civil Rights Hero Gave Us the Right to Protest. At 80, She's Watching Trump Destroy It Rebecca Smalls was one of the youngest plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case that affirmed peaceful protesters' right to due process and free speech. She's worried that her work will be undone.

Trump's DOJ's arrest of protesters is a direct attack on the legacy and work of civil rights protesters who fought for those rights.

We asked one of them what she thinks.

24.01.2026 14:33 — 👍 162    🔁 46    💬 2    📌 1
Under the new conservative consensus on presidential power, Trump is welcome to refuse to  investigate when government agents shoot Americans in the face, and he is welcome to try to charge their loved ones with crimes. He can openly blackmail government officials to manipulate the economy or to silence political opposition. No one can stop him from directing the Justice Department to indict his enemies for non-crimes while ignoring or pardoning the actual crimes of his political allies. He is free to be a tyrant, because the boss is the boss. But to me, it seems unlikely that the founding generation, in rebelling against a monarch, was looking to replace him with an even more wretched class of despot.

Under the new conservative consensus on presidential power, Trump is welcome to refuse to investigate when government agents shoot Americans in the face, and he is welcome to try to charge their loved ones with crimes. He can openly blackmail government officials to manipulate the economy or to silence political opposition. No one can stop him from directing the Justice Department to indict his enemies for non-crimes while ignoring or pardoning the actual crimes of his political allies. He is free to be a tyrant, because the boss is the boss. But to me, it seems unlikely that the founding generation, in rebelling against a monarch, was looking to replace him with an even more wretched class of despot.

Wrote about how John Roberts and Donald Trump have turned the Department of Justice into a corrupt mobbed up law firm whose only purpose is to enable Trump’s persecution of his enemies and protection of his allies www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

21.01.2026 23:38 — 👍 2323    🔁 675    💬 34    📌 20
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At 15, This Civil Rights Hero Gave Us the Right to Protest. At 80, She's Watching Trump Destroy It Rebecca Smalls was one of the youngest plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case that affirmed peaceful protesters' right to due process and free speech. She's worried that her work will be undone.
24.01.2026 11:14 — 👍 210    🔁 64    💬 1    📌 0

Why do Timberlands exist?

I know why people wear the butters NOW. But they’re not work boots & there’s no way anyone ever hiked in those heavy mfs. What kinds of shenanigans were white ppl engaged in that required a pair of 10-lb suede donkey kickers the color of a #2 pencil?

Something’s going on

24.01.2026 04:56 — 👍 215    🔁 15    💬 15    📌 2
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The Wake-Up Call: A Birthday Celebration Editor-in-Chief Genetta Adams joins the Wake-Up Call to discuss the first year of ContrabandCamp.
23.01.2026 23:18 — 👍 43    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

This is an old right-wing lie. In 1912, they found a pile of infant bones at a pagan brothel. To Jesus freaks, it proved non-Christians whores murdered baby boys

Then science got involved

BTW when you consider Nazis, Crusades, slavery & colonialism…

Christianity is the #1 baby killer of all time

23.01.2026 18:49 — 👍 191    🔁 72    💬 8    📌 5
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Order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tiffa...

23.01.2026 17:44 — 👍 41    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0

One Battle After Another” is a whitesploitation film.

I will not elaborate.

23.01.2026 05:08 — 👍 232    🔁 23    💬 14    📌 1
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Throwback Thursday: I Do Not Love America As Theodore DeReese Pendergrass once said: ‘It’s so good loving a country when your country loves you back.’ I’ll let you know when it happens.
22.01.2026 23:23 — 👍 89    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 1
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Throwback Thursday: I Do Not Love America As Theodore DeReese Pendergrass once said: ‘It’s so good loving a country when your country loves you back.’ I’ll let you know when it happens.

Whenever you're accused of being "Un-American," remember:

Jefferson Davis said abolitionists "lacked patriotism & moral principle"
The KKK said "America First" meant "love of country"
J. Edgar Hoover said MLK was "motivated by hate for America"

22.01.2026 19:04 — 👍 209    🔁 65    💬 5    📌 2

Fantastic article with data

22.01.2026 12:22 — 👍 37    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0
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BlackCheck: Trump Says Civil Rights Act Led to Whites Being 'Very Badly Treated.' Here's What the Data Says. Spoiler alert: He's wrong.
22.01.2026 11:26 — 👍 172    🔁 44    💬 7    📌 5
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BlackCheck: Trump Says Civil Rights Act Led to Whites Being 'Very Badly Treated.' Here's What the Data Says. Spoiler alert: He's wrong.

Did the Civil Rights Act oppress the people who are overrepresented in homeownership, the legislative branch, the judicial branch, wealth, income, school funding, college admission, executive leadership & white tears distribution?

We BlackChecked Trump's claim.

22.01.2026 01:04 — 👍 221    🔁 58    💬 6    📌 6

"You can embrace the warm and fuzzy negro fairytale of the Baptist preacher who changed America w peace, love and a few sermon-like speeches, or you can see the truth: Martin Luther King Jr. was a woke, critical race theorist who fought against wealth inequality while demanding reparations and DEI."

20.01.2026 01:19 — 👍 102    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 1

Do you want the truth? Can you handle the truth?

20.01.2026 12:09 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Everyone Claims to Know 'What MLK Would Have Wanted.' He Actually Told Black People. What if I told you that Martin Luther King Jr. talked about diversity, critical race theory and staying "woke" more than anything else?
20.01.2026 11:39 — 👍 107    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 2
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Everyone Claims to Know 'What MLK Would Have Wanted.' He Actually Told Black People. What if I told you that Martin Luther King Jr. talked about diversity, critical race theory and staying "woke" more than anything else?

From the beginning of the civil rights era until the day he died, MLK reserved one speech almost exclusively for Black audiences.

It was literally about staying "woke."

20.01.2026 00:28 — 👍 219    🔁 74    💬 0    📌 6
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A separate video shows Nick Fuentes, Tristan Tate, Sneako, and Clavicular rolling up to the club in a party van singing along to "Heil Hitler" and doing sieg heils.

18.01.2026 17:22 — 👍 575    🔁 161    💬 67    📌 46
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What Men Can Learn from ‘Heated Rivalry’ HBO Max's hit series about queer hockey players offers plenty of lessons on consent, masculinity and breaking free from the patriarchy.
17.01.2026 00:01 — 👍 76    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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The Wake-Up Call: America Is NOT More Divided Than It's Ever Been Or maybe you just don't know how divided we were.
16.01.2026 00:06 — 👍 156    🔁 29    💬 2    📌 2
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The Wake-Up Call: The Un-Whitewashed Story of Claudette Colvin If you think you know the story of civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who died Tuesday, think again.
15.01.2026 00:12 — 👍 140    🔁 37    💬 3    📌 1
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Trump Wants to Silence His Critics. Colleges, Corporations and Nonprofits Are Doing It For Him As America pivots toward authoritarianism, institutions across America are not just ditching diversity, free speech and facts; they are embracing the fascist fad, too.
14.01.2026 00:18 — 👍 110    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 3

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