Michael Harriot

@michaelharriot.bsky.social

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.

"Blacksplained" is a weekly podcast where an expert, scholar, or someone who knows things tackles ONE QUESTION from a Black perspective. This week, linguists Sunn m'Cheaux and Dr. Rachel Elizabeth Weissler Blacksplain: "Can white people code-switch?"

Instead of accepting the word of the hot-take industrial complex and "content creators," what if we just used these little-known tools called “facts” & “critical thinking”? Anyway, I looked up Tuskegee's 2021 dress code:

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I wasn’t gonna say nothing but… If you think it’s hilarious that an unaccredited Christian college in Indiana gave Cheyenne Bryant a doctotate … Wait till you find out where that boycott-leading pastor who “exposed” her earned his doctorate. *logs off*

While Hand of the Queen Corlys Velaryon is on hiatus from white nonsense, we gave Rhaenerya Targaryen access to the Black Library of Ancestral and Cultural Knowledge for Guidance, Perspective & Truth Introducing BLACKGPT – the first AI model based on the wisdom of the ancestors

CRT for HOTD: We Used AI to Solve Every Problem on 'House of the Dragon' S03, E5

We fed Rhaenyra's problems into BlackGPT—the first artificial intelligence model guaranteed not to include white nonsense.

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Whether it's a criminal act, a tragic accident or a police-involved shooting, who deserves the benefit of the doubt – the victim or the suspect? LaTosha Brown writes about an all-too-familiar pattern that many recognized in the Nolan Wells case.

Nolan Wells: It Is Not the Conspiracy. It Is the Familiarity.

The circumstances surrounding his death and a ruling of “no foul play was suspected” before an investigation even began trigger an alarm that is all too familiar for Black parents.

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Will the “Abolish the Gold Cloaks” movement spark police reform in Flea Bottom Does Alicent really support a women’s right to choose moon tea? Does Aemond know how much dragons contribute to climate change? There’s only one way to find out

CRT for HOTD: We Used AI to Solve Every Problem on 'House of the Dragon' S03, E5

We fed Rhaenyra's problems into BlackGPT—the first artificial intelligence model guaranteed not to include white nonsense.

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