Can you actually steal genius? Entertainment attorney Lisa E. Davis thinks so, and she’s got two centuries of receipts. She joined host Michael Harriot on Blacksplained, the weekly interview series from his Contraband Camp platform, to talk through Black intellectual property theft, the throughline connecting patent law in the 1820s…
Category: Edutainment
Edutainment
Reparations Is a Love Story. Dr. Johns and Dr. Hunter Explain Why
Dr. David J. Johns is the CEO and Executive Director of the National Black Justice Collective, the nation’s only civil rights organization working at the intersection of Blackness and queerness. Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter is a sociologist, the first person to tweet #BlackLivesMatter, and author of Radical Reparations: Healing the…
Edutainment
Is Evanston’s Reparations Program Legal? Madiba Dennie Breaks It Down on Freedman Friday
On Juneteenth 2026, the Trump administration did not celebrate. It intervened. The Department of Justice — under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche — filed to join a lawsuit aimed at shutting down the Evanston, Illinois reparations program, the first municipal reparations program in American history. The timing was not lost…
Educational Resources
Vic Mensa and The Conscious Lee on the 13th Amendment, the Sugar Land 95, and Why Reparations Can’t Be Real While Slavery Is Still Legal.
Chicago rapper, activist, and Harvard-educated debater Vic Mensa sat down with The Conscious Lee for one of the most intellectually rigorous reparations conversations in this entire series. The central argument is one line that should stop your breath: “Reparations cannot be a serious conversation while slavery is still happening — because under the…
Edutainment
A Republican Just Called It Reparations. On Live TV. Willie D Has the Receipts.
Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pennsylvania) used the word “reparations” on Newsmax to describe Trump’s $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund — a taxpayer-backed settlement fund for people who claim the Biden administration wronged them. Willie D’s point is simple: “Now we know y’all have a fundamental understanding of what reparations is. Y’all just don’t want to pay…
Educational Resources
NAACP Launches ‘Out of Bounds’ Campaign Against 8 States Attacking Black Voting Rights
The NAACP just announced their most aggressive move yet against states attacking Black voting rights — and they’re going straight for the money. The “Out of Bounds” initiative calls on Black athletes, alumni, fans, and supporters to withhold athletic participation and donations from eight states that are actively dismantling…
Charleston Reparations Task Force
Charleston Reparations Task Force and Gullah Geechee Descendants Demand 7,000 Acres and $9M
Source: ABC News 4 (April 30, 2026) & BLM Grassroots (April 24, 2026) On April 22, 2026, the Charleston Reparations Task Force issued a formal demand for the transfer of over 7,000 acres from three of South Carolina’s most prominent historic plantations — Middleton Place, Boone Hall, and Magnolia Plantation — to permanent Gullah Geechee stewardship….
Community and Activism
Black Reparations – The 1969 ‘Input’ Program featuring Muhammad Kenyatta
This 1969 television program emerged during a crucial moment in reparations history. The year 1969 marked the delivery of James Forman’s Black Manifesto, which demanded $500 million in reparations from white churches and synagogues. Forman famously interrupted worship at Riverside Church in New York on May 4, 1969, to deliver this…