Since taking office in January, President Trump has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by de-emphasizing that history or at times denying that it happened.
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Jim Crow’s Brutal Defenders (1965), Free At Last, Free At Last! (1865), ‘Her Power Shall Rest on the Strength of Her Freedoms’ (1960), Simpler Than, and Just as True as E = mc2 (1940), Happy Birthday, Industrial Workers of the World!
"If we don't fully understand and account for slavery's history in this country, we won't understand how it shaped the political, economic and social infrastructure of this country and the landscape of inequality today."
As Black men in prison, we live the tension between celebrating the abolition of slavery and struggling inside the system that replaced it.
The holiday’s 158-year history holds a lot of meaning in the fight for Black liberation today.
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A reminder, on Juneteenth, of the role that Black labor has played in building the country.
Young people are with this movement because they understand it is not about left and right and the normal politics — it’s about right versus wrong.
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