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Trump Is Making Juneteenth More Cause Than Commemoration

Friday, June 19, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump stripped Juneteenth and MLK Day from the national parks’ free-admission calendar while making his birthday a free-admission day. iPINIONS notes that’s not an administrative tweak. That’s a confession. Meanwhile, Obama opened a monument to Black achievement as Trump wages war on Black history. Read the full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-is-making-juneteenth-more-cause Read more.

MLK Day in MAGA’s Jim Crow 2.0 America

Monday, January 19, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

On MLK Day, Donald Trump isn’t honoring MLK’s legacy; he’s dismantling it. From scrubbing MLK Day and Juneteenth from the National Park Service calendar, to whitewashing American history under an Orwellian “sanity” order, to weaponizing DEI bans as grievance-driven affirmative action for Whites, Project 2025 amounts to a full-scale rollback of civil rights. iPINIONS damns… Read more.

Trump Is Making Indigenous Peoples’ Day Columbus Day Again

Monday, October 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump’s new proclamation to “make Columbus Day great again” isn’t about honoring Italian Americans; it’s about reviving the old lie that conquest equals discovery. From Columbus’s own journals to Trump’s DEI purge, iPINIONS shows how historical whitewashing keeps finding fresh political sponsors. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-is-making-indigenous-peoples Read more.

Observing Presidents’ Day

Monday, February 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

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.

Columbus Day Is Now Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Monday, October 14, 2024 at 6:12 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue [Blah blah blah] If, like me, you attended primary school in the 1960s or 1970s, you probably had to learn to recite the poem “In 1492” in its entirety. Teachers taught this poem with no compunction about the cultural annihilation and plunder it glorifies. Christopher Columbus, the disoriented explorer… Read more.

Juneteenth and Reparations for Slavery

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 6:56 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Juneteenth and reparations for slavery Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It stems from slaves in Galveston, Texas, not being informed of their emancipation until June 19, 1865. That was two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. What about reparations? The US House of Representatives… Read more.

Frederick Douglass Is the ‘Greatest Figure America Has Ever Produced’

Monday, October 15, 2018 at 7:42 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

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.