This piece is being posted on Juneteenth 2026. It is important not only to reiterate the history of the holiday but also to remind us of the involvement of our psychopathic President, Donald Trump, in the day – since, as usual, Trump’s involvement is contradictory, disingenuous, and racist. Here we will also examine some of […]
Juneteenth
The Legacy of Slavery, Part I: A Look at Reparations
The issue of reparations has lately become a fairly significant part of our national conversation. The fact that we are even discussing this in 2019 shows that the legacy of the enslavement of African Americans still persists – 156 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, 154 years after the end of the Civil War and the […]