Cipher With Malik

Primary records and restored Black voices showing how Black Americans built power, how that power was attacked, and what the evidence teaches us now.

A Freedmen-centered account of American history—focused on Black Americans not only as victims, but as builders, strategists, voters, educators, organizers, and institution-makers.

Reconstruction. Freedmen’s institutions. Black labor. Cooperative economics. Education. Migration. Political resistance. COINTELPRO. State surveillance.

The names, dates, documents, decisions, and firsthand voices behind the history.

Not textbook history.

The documents. The people. The pattern behind them.

New Every Week

Tuesday: Flagship documentary or full archival conversation
Thursday: Case File — one record, one story (12–20 min)
Shorts: 4–5 every week

Books, research, and free resources by Malik Powell:

cipherwithmalik.com