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One question
Actual experts
Real answers
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Average audio length:
67 minutes
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English
United States
10 episodes
since July 27, 2026
episodic
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Instead of uninformed opinions and hot takes, every week, Blacksplained invites an expert, scholar or someone who knows things to discuss one question from a Black perspective.
New York magazine calls Ali Siddiq “stand-up comedy’s most prolific storyteller.” The New York Times compared his comedy t…
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Tiffany D. Cross is a journalist.
Before earning a prestigious position as senior contributor at ContrabandCamp, Cross hosted The Cross Connection on MSNBC, worked as a producer at CNN, served as BET’s Washington bureau chief and was a 2020 fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics. She is the auth…
Dr. Safiya Noble is the author of the best-selling 2018 book, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. Noble has spent her entire career as a researcher, professor and scholar focused on how technology and artificial intelligence affect race, gender, culture and power.
She cu…
Long before she became the first Black woman to anchor a primetime cable news show, Reid studied not finding out at the prestigious FTSIO University School of Life (and Harvard).
On this week’s episode, Day One ContrabandCamper and host of The Joy Reid Show sits down for a conversation about:
Why …
On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine published “In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray Own?” Written by journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, the article reexamined the family’s decision that Hannah-Jones chronicled in another deeply personal piece in The New York Times 10 years ago.
What foll…
Are we actually in a literacy crisis? Or is the hand-wringing about this so-called “literacy crisis” about who gets to determine the books and the newspapers and the stories that are deemed “serious”?
I knew just the person to ask.
Dr. Ahmad R. Washington is the department chair and an associate pr…
If Christopher Columbus “discovered” America for white people, then Rod and Karen Morrow reverse gentrified the internet. After all, when Elon Musk “discovered” the website he now owns, Rod was already making his case for being considered one of the founders of Black Twitter. HBO made a show about …
Can white people code-switch, or is it a genetic ability that Black people are born with, like clapping on beat or making white people “fear for their lives”? Is it the same as “talking white” or is it a technical skill that people like Barack Obama, Kamala Harris and Ketanji Brown Jackson learned …
Each week, host Michael Harriot will pick one question about history, politics, science, culture or anything else worth talking about. But instead of giving his opinion or sharing his feelings on the subject, he’ll bring in a scholar, expert or professional who actually knows what they’re talking a…
As we approach the 200th anniversary of the Black press, many people wonder if anyone is keeping that mission alive. If so, who? And how do we support them?
Well, Blacksplained has the answer. Each week, ContrabandCamp’s newest weekly podcast poses one question to a scholar, expert or someone who …
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