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:
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New series: Black Intellectuals Speak — the greatest Black minds, decoded. Who should I break down next? 👇
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Most people know Frederick Douglass.
Few know the newspaper that came before The North Star.
This Thursday, July 23 at 7 PM ET, we're going back to 1827 to explore the founding issue of Freedom's Journal using original historical sources.
Stay tuned.
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Which Black thinker should we cover next?
Our Black Intellectuals Speak compilation brings together James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, and Dr. Frances Cress Welsing in one place. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/-2hAPMiwQZA
Tell us whose ideas deserve the next deep dive.
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