About Michael Harriot

Michael Harriot is a writer, cultural critic and championship-level Spades player. His NY Times bestseller Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America is available in bookstores everywhere.

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South Carolina International African American Museum, theGrio.com
June 28, 2023
Charleston’s new International African American Museum showcases the “woke” CRT history that white people feared would make them feel bad.
June 19, 2023
OPINION: For uncolored folk who consider Juneteenth "divisive" when white holidays are enuf.
Trump indicted, criminal justice, theGrio.com
June 14, 2023
Donald Trump and his supporters may need some advice after they recently discovered America’s criminal justice system might be a…
June 9, 2023
Black people protesting racial violence is not unusual. But when people are more upset by protests than the injustice, it’s…
anti-woke, woke, whiteness, theGrio.com
June 2, 2023
The people who co-opted, redefined and weaponized the 80-year-old Black expression have finally settled on a concise, standardized definition for…
black voters, theGrio.com
May 30, 2023
When will Black voters stop being loyal to the Democrats? Where is the GOP plantation with the white people who…
Black man voting, theGrio.com
May 26, 2023
We ranked the current presidential candidates from both parties in terms of the threat they posed to Black Americans.
woke, critical race theory, theGrio.com
May 24, 2023
Now that critical race theory, Black Lives Matter and "woke" have been redefined as anti-white, which common word or phrase…
Moms for Liberty, theGrio.com
May 19, 2023
Our series examines the Moms for Liberty-led anti-CRT coup that claimed the career of Berkeley County schools' first Black superintendent.
moms for liberty, critical race theory, theGrio.com
May 18, 2023
Part 3 of our series details how a group of angry white moms took over a majority-Black school district and…
SC critical race war
May 17, 2023
Our series details how a celebrated Black scholar found herself in the crosshairs of the conservative campaign against education equity.
May 16, 2023
TheGrio's four-part series explores how South Carolina became the home of the fight against critical race theory and equal education
An activist holds a sign protesting Tucker Carlson outside the NewsCorp Building
May 5, 2023
Tucker Carlson used described a victim of white violence as a "human being," and that gave Fox News no choice…
Byron Allen Presents DC Gala, thegrio.com
April 27, 2023
In an industry that is overwhelmingly white, "Bryon Allen Presents The Washington DC Gala" shows why Black representation matters.
Poppy Harlow, Don Lemon and Vivitek Ramaswamy on CNN This Morning
April 21, 2023
GOP presidential Vivek Ramaswamy claims the Civil War was fought so Black people could own guns. Don Lemon (and facts)…
Tennessee House Republicans leaked audio, thegrio.com
April 14, 2023
Leaked audio of Tennesee House Republicans' racism workshop reveals why people who commit racist acts truly believe they aren’t racist.
Colfax Massacre, theGrio.com
April 13, 2023
150 years ago, the Colfax Massacre set the stage for Black voter suppression and 150 years of gun hysteria.
April 1, 2023
Black America has some advice for the new criminal justice reform activists in Donald Trump's uncivil whites movement.
February 17, 2023
President Biden reassured America that aliens were not idling in their balloon ships preparing to gentrify Earth. 
Election For Mayor Held In Minneapolis
February 9, 2023
The thought of abolishing the police seems like an absurd idea … unless you’re one of the people who police…