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Presidents’ Day: it’s about the sales, man Alas, “Presidents’ Day” has become just another jingoistic way to induce Americans to shop for cars and mattresses. And this is one distortion or, in this case, commercialization of history that has nothing to do with race matters. Instead, this one stems from TV commercials now heralding and defining this… Read more.
Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. It freed all enslaved people in the Southern States. However, Union soldiers took two and a half years to inform the people of Galveston, Texas, of the Proclamation. Enslaved Blacks there finally heard the news of their freedom on June 19,… Read more.
I have been making this claim for decades. It’s based primarily on the fact that Frederick Douglass personified both the contradictions and promises that define America’s founding documents. And he did so like nobody else has or ever could. Unfortunately, even black historians have been so indoctrinated with white historiography, they invariably try to qualify my… Read more.
In a culture where the latest goings-on in entertainment, sports, or reality-TV are more often than not the topic of engaging conversations, any discussion about the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, is decidedly refreshing. You too will get an appreciation of this by eschewing the public debate now raging over whether Ben… Read more.
