Gerald Horne is not interested in celebrating America 250. In a July 1, 2026 edition of Around the Horn, he argued that 1776 was driven by land theft, labor control, and slavery, not by freedom or democracy. His point is blunt: the American Revolution was not a clean break from…
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Juneteenth
Marc Lamont Hill Office Hours: Dr. Roger Davidson on Juneteenth, the Civil War, and What Freedom Actually Means
Marc Lamont Hill hosted historian and Bowie State University Associate Professor Dr. Roger A. Davidson Jr. for an Office Hours deep dive into the history America oversimplifies every time it goes on sale at Target. The conversation ranged from the military mechanics of how emancipation actually happened, to Lincoln’s real…
Juneteenth
Juneteenth Spurs New Jersey Reparations Push as Advocates Press for Repair
As Juneteenth celebrations unfold, New Jersey advocates including Jean-Pierre Brutus are pushing reparations back into the spotlight. NJ Spotlight News reports on the statewide and national fight for repair. Five years after Juneteenth became a federal holiday, New Jersey advocates are using the anniversary to press for reparations at the…