A review by reggiewoods
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot

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4.0

With an energetic mix of humor and anger, Harriot tells the history of the often overlooked black Americans who have been fighting for four centuries for equality. Many of the events and people that are already familiar to the reader will most likely be seen in a different light when the black men and women that influenced them are named and given proper credit for their efforts. Harriot mixes in several personal anecdotes to emphasize his arguments, or sometimes to just “settle” some food related debates such as the difference between soul food and southern food. His grounded approach tells a people’s history, de-mythologizing the history we purport, and calling everybody, I mean EVERYBODY, out on their bullshit.